This is a reminder that the APL Camera Club will be meeting on Thursday April 25 between 7 and 9 p.m. in the Lebovic Room of the Aurora Public Library.  The following is on the agenda:

TIPS AND TRICKS

• Gerry Conetta: Using gradient filter in camera raw.
• Rafael Payen:  Correct colour cast in old photos.

12 SHOT CHALLENGE

• Rick Armstrong
• Angela Durante Dukat

GUEST SPEAKER

• Joseph Leduc of Fun Freestyle Photography will be doing a presentation on Portraiture.

MONTHLY CHALLENGE CRITIQUE

• Repetition/Symmetry (March)
• New/Old (April)

DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING

• Montage L'image at Hollandview Trail -- May/June
• Photography Masters-- Andre Kertesz
• Guest speaker for May meeting  -- Don Komarechka
• Aurora Sesquicentennial APL Camera Club Challenge

Looking forward to seeing you at the meeting.

Ronen

APRIL 13TH  WALKABOUT

We will go on a walkabout this weekend, but not to Reptilia (because only seven people registered and not the 10 minimum required).  Instead, we'll head to Sharon Temple (18974 Leslie Street in Sharon).  Admission is $5 and we can stay as long as we like.  (For info about the Sharon Temple, go to www.sharontemple.ca).  If you plan to come, please sign up here.  You will find details about where and when we'll meet on the signup page.

If you signed up for the Reptilia walkabout but don't care to participate in the Sharon walkabout, please go to the Sharon Temple signup page and remove your name from the list by clicking on the "cancel signup" link.  Remember that you must be logged in to cancel.

APRIL 25TH MEETING

The monthly challenge for April's meeting is "Something New" or "Something Old," or, if you're really creative, "something New and Old" in the same photograph.  The monthly challenge gallery is ready for your April images so upload them as soon as you can.  Because we're a bit behind with the monthly challenge critiques, we will critique the March challenge (Repetition/Symmetry) as well as the April challenge at this meeting.

TIPS AND TRICKS

Brief presentation from:

Hi,

This  newsletter contains important information about the APLCC as well as the agenda for the upcoming March 28 meeting.

APL CAMERA CLUB SEGMENT ON ROGERS CABLE

For those of you at the last meeting, you may recall that Rogers cable was present videotaping the proceedings.  The purpose was to do a profile on our club.  The segment will be broadcast on a program called York Region Living on Monday March 18 at 9:00 p.m.,  so don't forget to tune in.  I will do my best to get a copy of the segment, for those of you who won't be able to catch it on Monday, and post it on the APLCC website.

NEW FRONT PAGE

In an attempt to streamline the club's website I made some changes to the look of the front page.  Specifically, I changed the look of the video players as well as some of the elements on the page.  As sometimes happens when trying to fix something, it's not inconceivable that it may have broken something else.  I'd really appreciate it if members check out the front page and let me know if something isn't working correctly on your browser.  More specifically, check to make sure that the video players are working correctly.  If you do encounter a problem let me know which browser you're using and whether you're on a MAC or PC.

PRESENTATIONS

1.  For the people who are new to photography, or for those needing a primer, I will do a brief introduction to camera basics including the relationship and proper use of aperture priority, shutter priority, and ISO.

GUEST SPEAKER

We are going to have the pleasure of hearing Steve Rose speak about the workflow involved in his incredible photographs.  Depending on the length of Steve's presentation, we’ll try to cover some or all of the following:

MONTHLY CHALLENGE

The topics for this month's challenge are "Glass," "Fruit" or "Glass & Fruit."  Your images can be anything to do with glass, anything to do with fruit, or, if you're really ambitious, you can create an image that incorporates both glass and fruit.  It is not mandatory that you have both glass and fruit in your images.

I have created a page with some YouTube videos that will give you suggestions for this month's challenge.

CHANGE TO THE MONTHLY CHALLENGE

We've been spending a lot of time on the monthly challenge so I am tweaking this part of the meeting.  Instead of critiquing all of the posted images, we are going to choose one image as the main focus of the critique.  This will hopefully move things along a little faster and we can have time for other things, such as the HDR presentation which I've had to postpone twice now.

TIPS & TRICKS

Rafael Payen is going to walk us through the technique(s) he used to create his "Around the House" photo.

PRESENTATION ON OPEN-SOURCE HDR

Time permitting, I will illustrate the use of Luminance HDR, Picturenaut and Photomatix.

Hello, Everyone.

First, I would like to thank Doug Underwood and Deborah Barley for doing the "Tips & Tricks" and "Photo Essay" presentations at the last meeting. I know that everyone appreciated their insights and the time they spent putting it all together.

The following activities are planned for the January 31st meeting:

MONTHLY CHALLENGE

The theme for the monthly challenge is "Around the house/Something you love." The category is all set up on the APLCC website so you may begin uploading photos whenever you wish. Just remember that this month's challenge requires that you take three photos of the same object (anything around the house including people, pets or inanimate objects) from three different perspectives and pay close attention to the lighting. Try to capture the essence of the thing by way of varied and interesting compositions. Experiment with lighting and shadows. It’s not necessary to have expensive lighting kits for this -- just use lights around the house. I have set up a page on the APL Camera Club website with three embedded videos that give suggestions on how to approach composition and lighting:

Click here to watch the videos

PRESENTATIONS

I will do a presentation on how to use three different HDR software applications: Picturenaut, Luminance HDR, and Photomatix. The first two are open-source; Photomatix is not. We will compare and contrast what you get for free versus what will cost you some money.