Blog for the Calgary Photographic Society

    Hello fellow Calgary Photographic Society members. Here I go again as your president for the second time. I will strive to do my best this year and next.

    I would like to thank the past executive for the work they have put in this past year and thank the new executive for putting their names forward to keep the CPS running strong for another year.

    I have heard that the membership would like to get more educational value from our speakers. I will attempt to bring in speakers that have something to share, that we may all become better photographers. With that being said, I will be speaker this coming meeting on portable location lighting options. I will bring in a model and show some easy lighting set-ups and how I would process the files in Photoshop.

    I hope you can all make it to the meeting. See you there. As usual the meeting will be held at the University of Calgary room KNB129 starting at 7:30PM on Wednesday March 3rd 2010.

Scott Winter
President,
Calgary Photographic Society

P.S. The print competition theme is “texture”.

At the February meeting there was some talk about where to get colour profiled printing done at reasonable prices.

The first step in this is to colour profile your monitor there are a couple of ways that you can do this

Colour Profiling Hardware

There are a couple of main companies that do profiling hardware

Pantone

Spyder

Both companies provide hardware that will do a good job profiling and maintaining an accurate colour profile of your monitor under windows or Mac OS X.

Colour Profiling Software

I personally haven’t used any manual colour calibration but Dry Creek Photo that does the colour profiles for Costco has this page that explains a manual procedure. And they also have a large learning section located here that is a good primer for colour management.

The next step is to download the colour profiles for the Costco closest to you all the profiles are available here.

The final piece of the puzzle is installing and using the colour profiles. Again dry creek has a great page with a great instructions on how to do this.

I did mis-speak at the meeting about Apertures support for outputting colour profiled images. I just tested this and it does actually convert exactly the same as Photoshop does so anyone using aperture can screen proof and convert correctly.

Hello Everyone,
Thanks to everyone who came out to the February meeting last night. We had our elections for the 2010 year and the results were as follows:

• President – Scott Winter
• Treasurer – Mike Roest
• Secretary – Jeff Clement
• Events Co-ordinator – TBD

Anyone who is interested in filling the Events Co-ordinator position please come forward at the March meeting or email president_at_calgaryphotographicsociety.ca letting us know.

Hope to see everyone at the March Meeting (March 3rd 2010), with their prints for the theme Texture.

The print competition themes for 2010 have been posted and are available here.

Happy New Year!

The January CPS meeting will be held tomorrow, January 6th, at the usual place (room KNB133 at University of Calgary, in the Kinesiology “B” building).

There is no speaker planned but there will be a “Best of 2009″ where everyone is invited to bring their favorite shots of 2009 to present to the group. We’ll shut it down early and head out to for .

As a reminder our Elections are coming up in February and we are looking for nominations. The positions available are: President, Secretary, Treasurer, Events Coordinator.

Memberships are all up for renewal in February.