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”.

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.

• 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.

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.