This Wednesday we want you to bring your cameras, flashes, reflectors and whatever you may need to go outside to photograph some models. This is your chance to practice some lighting and posing with both male and female models. In order to give us a little more time we will be starting the meeting at 7:00pm.

Make sure you bring in your prints for the print competition. The theme for this month is Reflections. As always you can bring in 1 print for the theme and 1 print in the open category. You decide what level to enter your prints, novice, intermediate or advanced. I look forward to seeing your photographic creations.

Meetings are held at the University of Calgary, in the Kinesiology “B” building . Our meeting room is KNB133.

See you there.

Special thanks:
The Lethbridge Camera Club invited us to come down and judge their print competition. I would like to thank Carla Fedje and Stephen Butt for joining me for the road trip to Lethbridge. We had a great time and our hosts were very gracious and appreciative of our efforts.

Scott Winter
CPS President

The May meeting we will have Shelley Vandervelde, MPA, coming to speak to us. Shelley is an award winning portrait photographer who has in a very short time acheived her Master of Photographic Arts through the Professional Photographers of Canada. You can see some of her work at her website.

You still have time to get out there if you haven’t already got your theme picture for the month of May. The theme was Photojournalism/Street photography.

As usual the meeting will be held at the University of Calgary room KNB129 starting at 7:30PM on Wednesday May 5th 2010.

Here is the update for this weeks meeting.

The speaker for this month is Brad Allen. Brad is a Commercial and Fine Art photographer and will be speaking to us about Fine Art Photography. Check out Brad’s website at http://www.allenfoto.com/

Make sure you bring in your prints for the print competition. The theme for this month is Abstract. As always you can bring in 1 print for the theme and 1 print in the open category. You decide what level to enter your prints, novice, intermediate or advanced. I look forward to seeing your photographic creations.

Meetings are held at the University of Calgary, in the Kinesiology “B” building . Our meeting room is KNB133.

See you there.

Scott Winter
CPS President

    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”.

Scott Winter will be speaking about his photography.

The print competition theme is "Welcome".

• May 6th (7:30pm – 10pm) at the usual location (KNB133 at the UofC)
• Guest Speaker: Darwin Wiggett (scenic photographer)
• Print Competition Theme: Religion

Colin will also be discussing the plans / process for the new online print critiquing.

Hope to see you there,

Jeff

Noah Fallis will be speaking to us about his photography, life, the Universe, and everything.

The print competition theme is “Opposites”.

Peter Gold, of the Camera Store, will be speaking about his photography.

The print competition theme for March is Fashion.

The February 4th meeting will also by our 2009 Annual General Meeting. (We’ll try and keep it quick and painless)

All executive positions are up for grabs (President, Secretary and Treasurer).  The other positions are appointed.

We would like to continue the discussion of a venue change.  If anyone has any ideas for something central, accessible by transit, with affordable/available parking, allow easier mingling, and allow us to have food and drink (Coffee / snacks) please pass the information to the executive.

We would also like to discuss a change to the print competition where voting is done by popular demand since it’s getting more and more difficult to recruit judges.

You will need to have your membership paid up before you are able to participate in the AGM.

Guest Speaker:

Our next speaker is Pamela Kaffke – her work is seen here http://www.pamelaklaffke.com/.

Print Competition

As usual there will be both an open and theme print competition.  The theme for February is “metal”.

 
Ryan Pahl
President – Calgary Photographic Society

January 2009 Meeting

The 1st meeting of 2009 will be this Wednesday, January the 9th.  Meetings are held at the University of Calgary, in the Kinesiology "B" building in room KNB133.  Meetings start at 7:30pm.

Our guest speaker will be glamour/boudoir/nude shooter Dale Hannaford .

Our print competition theme will be "Architecture".

Just a reminder:  Memberships are up for renewal this month and you will need to be a paid member before voting in the Febuary AGM.