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!

November Theme: Re-Creation

Our theme for November is a tricky one but should be fun and really stimulate your creativity. The idea here is to re-create a situation or event from some point in your past using a new photo that incorporates an old photo. It could be yesterday or yesteryear. How do you do it? Use your imagination.

We discussed two methods at out last meeting; one was to scan the old photo (or take a picture of it with your digital camera) and the other, most popular way amongst the members, was to take the “Dear Photograph” approach and hold up the old photo in the place it was originally taken and retake it. You can get a lot of ideas for this at the Dear Photograph site.

Here’s an example of what it may look like. Not a great example but just something I snapped in a hurry on Thanksgiving Day.

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Members, you can submit the usual five versions for the next meeting, but don’t be discouraged if you don’t get five. Have fun with this and enjoy you walk down memory lane.

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

February Meeting – Best Foot Forward

The theme for our February meeting is “Best Foot Forward”. This one is open to interpretation, but I suspect we’ll see a lot of, well, feet. Head on over to facebook.com/theoscc and browse our wall posts to see some examples.

We would also like to note that the next meeting is on Valentine’s Day, so if you can’t make it because of something Cupid did… we’ll understand. 😉

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