Scavenger Hunt Oct 4, 2014

Uh Oh I thought to myself as I saw the cruiser at the side of the road. The first rule for the hunt was no speeding and you were responsible for your own tickets. Turns out I wasn’t really speeding as I was in a 60 zone and hadn’t really looked at my speedometer. That … [Read more…]

Hawk Cliff Outing

We would like to take this opportunity to thank Richard and Sharon Skevington for awonderful outing yesterday to Hawke’s Cliff to photography the raptors and butterflies. It was great to see so many people come out from our Club and from the Field Naturalist’s Club. Although we didn’t see a lot of raptors, there was … [Read more…]

Jeff Brown’s Flowers

In the Spring the camera club took a couple of trips to capture the magic of flowers. Jeff Brown shared some of his shots.

Our First Executive Meeting

Tonight we had our first executive meeting. It was great.  We accomplished a lot, Had a good exchange of ideas, changed some opinions (mine), and came up with some new ideas. We elected Linda Feick as President and Jeff Brown as Contest Chair.  That was a great accomplishment as willing members have been as scarce … [Read more…]

We Now Have a You Tube Account

Jeff Brown created a You Tube Account for the club so that our members can add their own videos and we can link to their account. Jeff added a slide show on our Stratford Challenge. There is a lot to photograph in that community. See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzkt7cdymG4&list=PLPaamP7kUgFvUfkVlEwe-74jF2zC1tGdH&index=1 BoB

We went to the Zoo

We went to the Zoo On May 10 and the weather was just right, Not too hot and not too sunny allowing some of us to get some excellent shots. Here is a video of Jeff Brown’s work.  I had to resize the video to get it on the site but if you want to … [Read more…]

Some ideas from this evening – April 16

Stitch photos into a panorama PTGui  http://www.ptgui.com/ Learn about Micro 4/3’s cameras  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Four_Thirds_system Photomatix HDR software   http://www.hdrsoft.com/index.html Soft-proof images in Lightroom   Page 140 of the manual: http://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/lightroom_reference.pdf Those are the ones I remember. BoB

Faststone Image Viewer

The software I was using to display the last couple of pictures last evening was Faststone Image Viewer from http://www.faststone.org/ I learned about it at a SWOPA meeting and I like the way it displays pictures. Last night was the first time I had played with the editing tools. For some quick maybe more extensive … [Read more…]