May 4th, 2011 Meeting
Our next meeting is this coming Wednesday May 4 @ 7:30 pm. The meeting is in our regular room, KNB-133 at the University of Calgary in the Kinesiology building.
This month Mike Roest and Jeff Clement will be discussing their adventures into high-speed photography and how they take images like the following.
The theme for May is Action. Get your prints together and bring them in for a critique. The theme for June is Clouds. There have been some good ones out there lately. Get out there and get some for June's meeting.
April 2011 Meeting
Our next meeting is this coming Wednesday April 6 @ 7:30 pm. The meeting is in our regular room, KNB-133 at the University in the Kinesiology building.
Our speaker for the meeting will be Megan Kozak. Megan will be one of our models for our Glamour Workshop. She will be giving us some insight on model/photographer working relationships. Megan has asked me to ask you for some questions you may have about working with models. That way she will know what to talk about and be more prepared. If you have a question for Megan please forward to me at scott.winter at calgaryphotographicsociety.ca You can also check out some of Megan's modeling work at http://www.modelmayhem.com/845779
Make sure you bring your prints for the print critique. The theme for this month is Night Lights. You can bring 1 theme print and 1 print in the open category. You still have time to get those prints done.
We still have a couple of spots open for the Glamour Photography Workshop.
See you Wednesday.
Scott Winter
President,
Calgary Photographic Society
Glamour Photography Workshop (April 10, 2011)
Join us for the Calgary Photographic Society Glamour Photography Workshop April 10, 2011 at SAIT's MacDonald Hall.
Instruction will be provided by Calgary Photographic Society president, Scott Winter, CPA. Scott is a fulltime professional photographer with over 30 years in the photography business and operates a family owned portrait studio and retail lab in Cochrane, Alberta.
You will have hands on training with six beautiful models (Miss Renee Tayler, Megan Kozak, Sarah Elsom, Brittany Michalchuk, Michelle Bourque, Kourtney Krysta, Brittany Hague). Learn how to use studio strobes to light your model. Learn how to pose your model for jaw dropping impact. Learn how to interact with the model and gain confidence. Learn post production and Photoshop enhancement tricks.
Full Day Workshop only $250!
Workshop runs from 8:30 - 6:00 and includes lunch.
View the full poster here.
To sign-up for the workshop fill out our registration form.
HDR Photography with Scott Dimond
HDR master Scott Dimond (Gemstone Images) spoke with the Calgary Photographic Society about incorporating HDR into our work.
For landscapes, the photographer is often forced to deal with a bright sky and a darker foreground that falls outside of the dynamic range of most DSLRs. In cases where there is a clean linear division between the sky and foreground a graduated ND filter was/is the traditional solution. GradND filters do not work, however, when you have more complex scenes with no clean horizon and that is one area where HDR shines. In these instances you can shoot a series of photographs correctly exposed for each element in the photograph. Using HDR software these images can be pulled together into a single image where the properly exposed sections of each image are used.
Scott's Shooting Workflow:
- Static subject.
- Camera on Tripod!
- Focus and then turn of AF
- Shoot in aperture priority or manual
- Dial back the exposure enough that you have a gap at the dark end of the histogram. This means you are not clipping any detail in the shadows.
- Work your way up the bright end taking an exposure every couple stops
- Keep shooting until your histogram shows a gap on the bright end. Once you reach this point you are no longer clipping highlight detail.
- The key is to take enough images that you are never clipping detail.
Post Workflow:
- Load images into Aperture/Lightroom and perform minimal correction (white balance)
- Apply any adjustments consistently to ALL images in the HDR set
- Export frames to TIFF files (make sure that EXIF information stays with image)
- Load those into Photomatix
- Use "Exposure Fusion" for natural looking HDR and "Tone Mapping" for something a bit more wild
Links:
- Photomatix is a very popular commercial HDR offering.
- Hydra is a commercial HDR offering with Lightroom, PS, and Aperture plugins.
- Enfuse is a free command-line tool for merging multiple exposures together.
March 2011 Meeting
We will be meeting in our regular room, KNB-133, at the U of C. Socializing from 7:00-7:30, meeting starting at 7:30.
Make sure you bring your prints for the print critique. The theme for this month is Bridges. You can bring 1 theme print and 1 print in the open category. You still have time to get those prints done. Don't let the cold weather keep you from getting those great shots.