Category: Announcements

Foto Art Contest Winners

As some of you may know Foto Art runs a friendly little contest for the club members twice a year. The latest contest was “Wind” and the winners were as follows:

First Place: Denise Bonte

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Second Place: Darlene Van Laar

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Denise won a $25 gift certificate from Foto Art and Darlene won a complimentary issue of Shutterbug magazine. Great job ladies!

We’ll Get Better, We Promise.

Hello world. As you can see by the last post we haven’t done a very good job of keeping things up to date here, but we will get better at it. That’s a promise.

You can look for more impromptu posts of photos, tutorials, and maybe even a video how-to now and again. We’ll get our Calendar page updated soon so you will know what to expect at our meetings. And we love to hear from you. Please don’t hesitate to give your feedback about the site. What you like, what you don’t like, what you’d like to see, etc. the more feedback we get, the more we can improve the site.

Thanks,
Greg McMillan, webmaster

Grey County Life Interview

Today Greg and Lynn appeared on Grey County Life with Diane Foulds on Rogers Local TV. They were on to talk about the club and outline what we do. We hope to have a video of the interview to show at next week’s meeting. There are a few photos from the studio posted on our Facebook page. You can see them at http://on.fb.me/zI8dJP.

December Theme: Sentient Beings

The word “sentient” means having the capacity for feeling.  The word “beings” pertains to people and animals.  The theme for us this month means trying to capture people or animals in a moment of “feeling” or in a mood.  It allows you to use the Mik’sang approach to capturing live beings in a way that shows emotion, a mood or a personality trait.  It also means capturing that moment without the subject being aware of the camera pointed in their direction. Nor is the subject posed for the picture.  You may have to think about camera settings for indoors to avoid using a flash. Capture the mood with photographing only body parts like hands or feet.  Be prepared with your camera handy for that “unexpected” moment. Be patient and wait for that “moment” to happen.

The holiday season is a good time for photographing “Sentient Beings” at family gatherings or public events like parades. Go through your files to find past pictures that may fit in this category. Have fun over the holiday season!

You can see some examples of Sentient Beings at http://on.fb.me/vkzHky

October’s “Monochrome” Theme

The term of monochrome usually means black & white or grayscale. But it may also be used to refer to a combination of shades of one colour like green, red, etc. This challenge would like you to explore some of these colours. Here are some examples of how you can achieve this;

1) Use your macro lens to get in close to an object like a flower of one colour. Use shadows and textures to compose an interesting picture.

2) Take a picture of an object on a background of the same colour, i.e., Green frog on a green leaf.

3) Experiment with Blue Light to get a monochrome dusk or dawn shot.

4) Take a picture through a diaphanous material of one colour, i.e., Coloured glass or sheer curtain.

5) Convert the picture to sepia tones.

Use your imagination to shoot unusual pictures while remembering techniques like Mik’sang, Impressionism, Lens Painting and using a variety of lenses.

Post submitted by Lynn Reket. Look for some sample images on our Facebook page in the coming days.