KLIK Season 56, Issue 5 OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE MISSISSAUGA CAMERA CLUB May 2010 Kensington Window by Al Tilson The Mississauga Camera Club, an affiliate of the Mississauga Recreation and Parks Department, is a member of the Mississauga Arts Council, the Canadian Association for Photographic Art, the Greater Toronto Council of Camera Clubs and supports the GTCCC policy on nature photography.
May 2010 KLIK Page 2 Message From The President A Year in Review MCC Annual General Meeting May 6, 2010 The AGM is a time for reflection and renewal. Looking back over this year, the Mississauga Camera Club has had an exciting and challenging journey. I would like to thank the many volunteers who made this journey memorable and worthwhile. To identify the volunteers by name is problematic, if anyone is overlooked. So I would like to look at the activities volunteers brought to life. Volunteers came together this year to create and host in-house presentations such as: What do Judges Look For Focus on Talented Women Show and Share Photojournalism and HDR Photo Essay Competition Volunteers and participants made outings worthwhile. We had interesting outings to new events as well as familiar places: The Zombie Walk, Montsberg, Niagara Falls Bird Sanctuary to name a few, and an away trip being planned to Kincardine in June. The workshop/seminar program is top notch and was organized and presented by talented volunteers. As members, we are constantly facing technical learning curves or looking for insights into the old or emerging techniques of photography. Our workshop program addresses these needs and is second to none. Digital and Print Competitions were conducted flawlessly. Two teams of dedicated volunteers conducted our competitions, and in the end raised the artistic levels of many people. Our greatest achievement this year has been the winning of club trophies, individual trophies and recognition at the GTCCC interclub competition. Congratulations to all. One set of unsung heroes is the team of volunteers who each week handle the technical set-up and technical operations at our meetings. Every year we adopt more technology and we are continually challenged to deploy it to our benefit. Again, volunteers make it possible to stay on top of a changing world. Volunteers have given form and shape to one of most ambitious projects in the Club, namely the Nurses at Work exhibition. This project has many moving parts. Volunteers are working tirelessly to complete each phase. In the end we will all join together to celebrate at the opening of the Nurses at Work Exhibition on September 9, at the Living Arts Centre. Volunteers are what makes this a great Club and we can t say thank you often enough. Looking into the future, there will always be more projects, so we are always looking for willing people to step forward to share their time and talents with others. I would like to address my final comments to our executive team and to say thank you for your constant support, creative contributions and tireless efforts. You helped everyone here have a great experience at the Mississauga Camera Club. In closing I would add a personal comment and say thanks to all of you for this journey, it s been great. Marcus Miller President
May 2010 KLIK Page 3 Cover Image Kensington Window by Al Tilson 1 st place pictorial print for the Salon competition The picture is a montage. It is made of three layers, and here is how I did it. It's really quite easy to do: the first layer is the window in Kensington (the background layer); the second layer is the two-headed girl, which I removed from another photo using the Extract Tool in Photoshop. You drag and drop this above the background layer. Next, you go back to the background layer and duplicate it (ctrl-j). Then you position the twoheaded girl layer between the two Kensington layers. Now, make the top Kensington layer active, and reduce the opacity to 50%, so you can see through it. Next, use the eraser tool to erase the glass panes in the window, so the girl is visible. Now, you increase the opacity back to 100%, save the image, and you're finished. GTCC Competition Update The GTCCC Interclub 2010 Competition was a stunning success for the Mississauga Camera Club. With 133 images submitted from 34 MCC members our club participation was exceeded only by three other clubs in the GTC - the Toronto, Richmond Hill and Etobicoke Camera Clubs with 135, 160 and 211 images respectively. Only the Richmond Hill and Etobicoke Camera Clubs had more submitting makers with 35 and 50 members submitting Interclub entries. Of course, it is wonderful to win and the Mississauga Camera Club won a resounding victory and the Freedman Trophy with a total score of 295! Etobicoke and Toronto Camera Clubs tied for Second with 288 points. Congratulations to all contributing members as this was clearly a group effort. And special congratulations to the trophy winners: HILARIE MCNEIL-SMITH COLOUR PRINTS ALL IN A ROW Best Creative SANDRA ROEMER NATURE DIGITAL BLACK BEAR FEEDING CUBS 1st ND HILARIE MCNEIL-SMITH BEAR CUBS HM ND BRUCE KENNEDY COYOTE HM ND RAYMOND HSU SANDHILL CRANES HM ND RONALD MANNING RED NECKED GREBES HM ND JERRY SOLTYS SANDSTONE SWIRL Best Geology PICTORIAL DIGITAL HILARIE MCNEIL-SMITH DREAMWORLD 1st PD DOUG JOHNSTON THE CREEP OF TIME 2nd PD KAREN SIMMONDS SOAP STONE CARVER HM PD HILARIE MCNEIL-SMITH BIKE ANGEL HM PD Warren Davis Vice Chair and GTCCC Representative
May 2010 KLIK Page 4 GTCC WINNING IMAGES Doug Johnston The Creep of Time I had seen several impressionistic images of cities in the clouds, and thought I could do that. From there, the journey was to find a sufficiently prominent building to be the centre of interest, and as I filtered through images of Scottish cathedrals, Romanian castles and aristocratic country retreats, I realized that I had one much closer to home that would fit the bill; our local iconic Mississauga City Hall. But what to provide to the eye as a lead in? Well a winding river should draw the eye into the centre of focus. I started selecting and pasting; obviously I needed some cloud images as well. But as I worked, I began to wonder, (probably after getting depressed as I watched some of our so-called political leaders engage in more childish wrangling), what the future might hold for our Mississauga downtown. In younger years, I had lived in Glasgow and Liverpool, and seen the depressing creep of decay that can engulf a vibrant city when an industrial economy starts to collapse, and seen the expressions of disgust, often painted on the sides of abandoned buildings, although not often as artistic as today s colourful extemporaneous murals. I had some images of dramatic downtown graffiti from Queen s St West taken some time ago ( even before Rick Mercer popularized them). So I added them, and using transformation tools to again provide a path for the eye into the clouds. Since I had obviously crossed over the line into fantasy (that s fantasy, dear reader, not madness!), why not add a couple of mountains to strengthen this
May 2010 KLIK Page 5 passage as well? And in line with the idea of subtle decay, or is it progress, I added in the ghost of a disused industrial plant in the background. All of this work was done in colour mode, but I realized the colour made the overall effect too busy (I was working with seven images and several mirror copies), so after consultation with the senior art director in the family, I went to Black and White. This actually solved some problems of colour balance and lighting, but it also strengthened the visual impact. After that it was just a matter of adding some lighting effects, contrasts, dodging and burning here and there ( all the while keeping track of a myriad of layers).and so on. A real challenge was to step back and stop tweaking! Deadlines help here. As I sat down to write about creating the image, at Pradipta s request, I realized that none of the process was linear thought. Rather, it was an almost random journey, which as it built, created an excitement for me that I was onto something that I felt was pleasing, and hopefully a little disturbing. But remember, it all started with the thought, I could do that. So you can too! Bruce Kennedy COYOTE My image of the coyote was It was taken in late afternoon Kananaskis Country near Nakiska in Alberta, handheld from a car using a 80-400 mm, which I had purchased that morning. The coyote was travelling parallel to the road on a slope about eye level. I stopped and shot out the passenger window. If you look closely, you can see a clump of snow on the end of his nose from digging for mice. The lighting, pose and sharpness made it an appealing image to me.
May 2010 KLIK Page 6 Hilarie Mcneil-Smith I'll start with the girls.. I was scouting with Bruce along the beach strip in Burlington one evening last summer. The sun was setting and we were looking for a good view of the water.. We encountered a little park and got out to take a look...these little girls were all sitting on the fence! It took my breath away.. I fired this shot from the distance. As we approached, they started to jump off, unaware that we were there. I spied their coach and asked if we could have permission to shoot, so they all climbed back on the fence and let us fire away.. I am by nature a 'shy' person photographer, so having them all face away was perfect.. being little gilrs they were all squirmy and giggling.. I think I took about four shots, and finally thought to put on my flash because they were almost a silhouette. I was so excited I forgot to remove the lens hood and got a dark shadow in the foreground. I worked at that to remove it, gave the image a pop of Topaz Adjust to add grain and character, and a faux HDR effect. the lens was my sigma 10-20mm @ 14mm with flash. I was swinging two cameras at the time, one with my 70-200 lens. I took a few with that also, but preferred this image. Apparently they were just there to cool off after the game. It was one of those magic moments. I sent images to the coach and she said we made their day!
May 2010 KLIK Page 7 ALL IN A ROW The 'dreamer' is a composite of five images all shot at different times, even different years! I wanted to make it sort of an unbelievable fantasy, a reader on the beach, ( see below)but in a snow scene with a reflection on ice. The trees are from two different images from Richard's park in Port Credit. The ice from the path at Jack Darling park, the extra tree at the end from a field in the country somewhere. All were shot with an all purpose Tamorn 18-200 lens. I blended the layers together, made a layer copy of that and added the figure, made a layer copy of the figure and turned him upside down as a reflection. The curls are from using the warp tool and a drop shadow effect.
May 2010 KLIK Page 8 DREAMWORLD
May 2010 KLIK Page 9 The bearcubs were taken at Omega park on a Photo Safari led by Diane Skinner. This particular shot was taken through the car windshield in pouring rain. I was using my 70-200 IS f4 Canon lens. BEAR CUBS
May 2010 KLIK Page 10 The 'bike angel' was a composite. it was a scene without character, but I managed to catch the rider in the air. I painted a background from another image, and placed the rider on the top after carefully extracting it. the angel wings were just a whimsy.. I have photoshop brushes that do that. I captured the original image with my Canon 70-200 @ 70mm. BIKE ANGEL
May 2010 KLIK Page 11 Ron Manning RED NECKED GREBES This was photographed this past summer (June 13, late afternoon)) at Bronte Harbour using my 50D and 100-400 IS zoom combination. This shot of the birds presented itself for a moment and then was lost. When submitted in the initial competition it was rectangular, the judges commented that they thought it would be better square and so it was submitted to the GTCCC as a square which improved its score.
May 2010 KLIK Page 12 Sandra Roemer BLACK BEAR FEEDING CUBS This mother black bear chose a comfortable, grassy spot to feed her cubs, as if posing for the camera. This was a magical moment, especially when she appeared to become somewhat bored with the whole event. She and many other black bears roam freely in a very large enclosed area of Omega Park in Montebello, Quebec. The image was shot with NIKON's D300 and my NIKON 70-200 f 2.8 lens, on tripod. The settings were ISO 800, 180 mm, f 6.3 at 1/320th with matrix metering.
May 2010 KLIK Page 13 SALON COMPETITION RESULTS May 2010 Digital Beginner Pictorial Pictorial 1ST ICED PIER Paul McLeod 24 1ST BUGGED OUT Omar Sheikh 26 2ND WINTER GLOOM Paul McLeod 24 2ND AWOL Philippe Lapointe 25 3RD ASHLEY 02 Angela Murphy 23 2ND BEACH WALK Marcus Miller 25 HM L A LOOKERS Pradipta Datta 23 3RD SECRET_PLACE Philippe Lapointe 24 HM ANTIGUA SUNSET Jon Clarke 22 HM MOTHER WATCHING OVER Omar Sheikh 24 HM PAUSE Michael Cutmore 22 HM FOOTSTEPS AT DAWN Bob Warren 24 HM FARM IN FALL Michael Cutmore 22 HM TORCHED SCHOOL BUS Omar Sheikh 23 HM ROOF TOPS Paul McLeod 22 Nature HM WOODENUMBRELLA Annette Seip 22 1ST SEMIPALMATED PLOVER Linda Wiesner 24 Nature 2ND MUTE SWAN LANDING Fred Dixon 24 1ST FURIOUS FOAM John Moore 22 3RD BLUE HERON WITH CATCH Bob Bowman 22 2ND HORNED OWL Don Meaker 22 HM COLDDUCK Robert Mongrain 22 3RD RED FOX Marilyn Johnston 22 Artistic Contemporary HM RED TAILED HAWK Don Meaker 21 1ST BACK TO THE LAND Bob Warren 25 HM BARRED OWL Alan Munro 21 2ND END OF THE ROAD Bob Warren 25 Artistic Contemporary 3RD SOUTH BEACH ICON Warren Davis 24 1ST FLOWER REFLECTIONS Jon Clarke 24 HM WELCOME TO TORONTO Robbie Robinson 23 Digital Advanced Pictorial Pictorial 1ST ANNA Hilarie McNeil-Smith 26 1ST Sandstone Swirl Jerry Soltys 27 2ND AIRSHOW Kevin White 25 2ND Stairway Marcus Miller 25 3RD CHILD OF AFRICA Hilarie McNeil-Smith 25 3RD Coyote Butes Jerry Soltys 25 HM ROLLING TREE LINE Susan Grexton 24 HM Waterfall in Perce Bay, Quebec Bruce Peters 24 HM INTO THE WIND Bruce Kennedy 24 HM Northern Saw Whet Owl David Simmonds 24 HM DEER IN RAIN STORM David Simmonds 24 HM Making The Turn David Simmonds 24 HM MORNING MIST Kay Woollam 24 HM MORNING GRAZING Kay Woollam 24 1ST Kensington Window Al Tilson 25 Nature 2ND Captive Audience Hilarie McNeil-Smith 24 1ST BALD EAGLE WITH PREY Carol Bohnert 26 3RD Dundas Square Crowd Robbie Robinson 23 2ND HOODED MERGANSER WITH Robert Bohnert 25 3RD RED NECKED GREBES Ron Manning 25 HM SANDHILL CRANES Raymond Hsu 25 HM HOODED MERGANSER WITH Carol Bohnert 24 HM WHITE-BREASTED NUTHATCH Robert Bohnert 24 HM NORTHERN SAW WHET OWL David Simmonds 24 Artistic Contemporary 1ST DOWNTOWN Al Tilson 25 2ND THE FACE IN THE WINDOW Al Tilson 24 3RD GOING TO THE SHOW Robert Bateman 23 HM GLOWING COREOPSIS Ron Manning 23 HM ELECTRIFYING Ron Manning 23 HM COPPELIA BALLET Hilarie McNeil-Smith 23 Digital Intermediate Prints Artistic Contemporary
May 2010 KLIK Page 14 FINAL STANDINGS 2009-2010 Digital Beginner Digital Intermediate Digital Advanced Prints Jon Clarke 255 Omar Sheikh 272 Robert Bohnert 287 Jerry Soltys 192 Angela Murphy 251 Bob Warren 267 Hilarie McNeil-Smith 281 David Simmonds 188 Michael Cutmore 250 Philippe Lapointe 257 Carol Bohnert 278 Hilarie McNeil-Smith 185 Pradipta Datta 248 Robbie Robinson 251 Raymond Hsu 276 Robbie Robinson 183 Michael Bodimead 247 Marcus Miller 250 David Simmonds 270 Ron Manning 181 Ina Miglin 245 Rainer Rothfuss 247 Jerry Soltys 268 Al Tilson 177 Jack Kozlowski 240 Suzanne Williams 247 Ron Manning 266 Bruce Peters 168 Jennifer Fowler 235 Fred Dixon 246 Al Tilson 266 Rainer Rothfuss 168 John Moore 235 Warren Davis 245 Kevin White 266 Omar Sheikh 167 Don Meaker 233 Robert Mongrain 244 Susan Grexton 259 Uliana Yaworsky 167 Myra P. Jones 232 Garry Weiler 244 Karen Simmonds 257 Myra P. Jones 148 Alan Munro 230 Stephen Hill 241 Jim Calvert 254 Juri Vosu 142 Debbie Fuller 225 Janet Brazier 240 Bruce Kennedy 254 Alan Gray 139 Marilyn Johnston 225 Alan Gray 239 Kay Woollam 252 Leonie Holmes 126 Sherry Prenevost 182 Juri Vosu 239 Robert Bateman 251 Marcus Miller 108 Roseline Marshall 181 Linda Wiesner 236 Leonie Holmes 251 Shannon Gilmour 75 Beverly-Ann 176 Doug Johnston 231 Lisa Husar 250 Karen Simmonds 44 Eric Matto 168 Bob Bowman 226 Rob Kennedy 185 Bruce Kennedy 39 Tom Snow 165 Bruce Peters 184 Clement dorosario 125 Debbie Fuller 19 Paul McLeod 135 Rafael Fernandes 174 Janet Martin 120 Suzanne Williams 18 Jason Hashimoto 120 Sorin Alb 167 Ralph Abell 64 Nancy McDowell 119 David Penty 89 Peter Martin 61 Kenneth Wan 119 Claude Barras 76 Shannon Gilmour 117 Frank Kuznik 60 Joe Teixeira 114 Maureen Rodrigues 105 Brenda Bedessee 61 Holly Lumley 60 Annette Seip 58 Trophy Winners Digital Advanced Robert Bohnert Digital Intermediate Omar Sheikh Digital Beginner Jon Clarke Digital Pictorial (tie) Hilarie McNeil-Smith and Omar Sheikh Digital Nature (tie) Jerry Soltys and Carol Bohnert Digital Artistic Contemporary Hilarie McNeil-Smith Prints Jerry Soltys Photo Essays Marcus Miller Maurice de Cunha Hilarie McNeil-Smith Jim Cranston Al Tilson Advancements Beginner to Intermediate 1) Jon Clarke 2) Michael Cutmore 3) Angela Murphy Intermediate to Advanced 1) Omar Sheikh 2) Bob Warren 3) Claude Barras 4) Priscilla Cordahi
May 2010 KLIK Page 15 SHARE POINT 1) Jeffrey s Photoshop Calendar-Template-Building Script contributed by Bob Mongrain The author has made a Photoshop JavaScript script that builds calendars. The result of running it in Photoshop (CS2 or later) is a Photoshop document with half a dozen or so layers that you can then tweak and modify, add your own image to, etc. http://regex.info/blog/photo-tech/calendar 2) Travel and Adventure Photo Contest Are you a TRAVELOGRAPHER?? How would you know unless you know what one is? Travelographers make their travel plans with a purpose. They're an active group that prefers to visit places that are off the beaten path and don't mind paying extra to do so. They travel for adventure, photography and to broaden themselves culturally. Does that sound like you or someone you know? Enter your most outstanding travel photographs, sponsored by Popular Photography and American Photo. Winners will be selected by a panel of distinguished judges and will be published in upcoming issues of Popular Photography and American Photo. http://www.popphoto.com/travelographer2010/ 3) Camera Calibration in Lightroom One of the lesser known features in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is Camera Calibration in the Develop module. Different camera sensors render color differently. Camera Calibration was developed to enable photographers to adjust the white balance, hue and saturation to calibrate the image so it matches more closely with what they intended when it was originally captured. http://peterliuphoto.com/2010/04/28/lightroom-camera-calibration-and-user-presets/ Sorry, members have no items to offer! New Season Begins September 2, 2010 MARKET PLACE UPCOMING CLUB EVENTS KLIK Your participation is welcome please send your feedback, comments and suggestions; articles; tips, tricks and techniques; interesting web sites; images with comments etc. to: KLIK@MCCdigital.ca. There is no deadline for submissions! The next issue will be published on August 28, 2010.
May 2010 KLIK Page 16 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE President Marcus Miller Past President Doug Johnston Vice President TBD Secretary Bob Bowman Treasurer Myra Jones Workshops Bob Warren Outings TBD Competitions Digital Omar Sheikh Competitions Print Jerry Soltys and Wendy Baillie Program Reg Bindon Membership Linda Wiesner Communications Stephen Hill GTCCC Rep Warren Davis Social Craig Stuart Editorial Pradipta Datta THE MISSISSAUGA CAME RA CLUB Meetings: Cawthra Seniors Community Centre, 1389 Cawthra Road, Mississauga E-Mail: info@mississaugacameraclub.ca Web: http://www.mississaugacameraclub.ca