february 2013 - northumberland photography club · in this issue: president’s message 1 – 2,...

President: Elaine Amenta, Vice President: Patricia Calder, Treasurer: Laurie Robertson, Secretary: Bonnie Brown,

Technician: Andreas Gada, Outings: David O’Rourke, Membership: Joe Schmeiss, Communications: Richard Looye,

Program/Newsletter: Larry Keeley

Elaine Amenta

D. O’Rourke photo

I am a recent transplant to the beautiful Northumberland

region. I lived in Illinois for almost 8 years before moving

to Cobourg in 2011. I was a member of a small

photography club in Du Page County. We had barely 30

members but we would go out together and take photographs and then one of the

local camera stores would exhibit our submissions and have their customers

vote on the one they liked the best. The photographer with the most votes that

month would win a free 8x10 of their choice. That kept us competitive! We also

held monthly meetings and sometimes had as many as 12 of us show up! We

discussed photography in general and I learned quite a bit about depth of field

and shutter speeds. It was a nice group, we shared and were happy to go on

outings together.

I can remember one day we wandered into a bog and I lost my boots but captured

some really nice shots of wildlife!........continued p. 2

The Monitor Northumberland Photography Club Newsletter 2

February 2013

IN THIS ISSUE: President’s Message 1 – 2, Susanne Pacey’s Creative

Photography 3 – 4, Mary Talbot Workshop 5, David O’Rourke’s Outing

Adventures 6 – 7, Featured photographer Terry Carpenter 8 – 12, NPC

Bulletin Board 13, Media Release 14, Favourite Animal Photos 15,

The Last 6.

President’s Message continued…….

Due to work schedules and other commitments, I find I cannot always attend the

wonderful outings that David O’Rourke arranges for our club. I do, however,

really enjoy seeing the submissions that members present at our monthly

meetings. I make notes about some of the places I didn’t get to see and promise

myself I will go “soon”, because those photos look amazing.

I drive into the Northumberland Hills quite often and I am in awe of the

landscapes that can be seen along County Road 9 and beyond. I worked in

Hastings for a while and the views along Hwy 45 to Rice Lake often had me stop

and take a breath. I look forward to seeing members’ submissions each month,

so please keep them coming. Seeing them reminds me that we are living in a

beautiful part of Ontario and to take the time to stop and look around. Each

month we feature “Outings”, “Theme” and “Photographers’ Choice” categories,

so check our website on how to submit and show us what you can do!

Russ Donaldson photos

Russ Donaldson photo


My Creative “Eggsperience”….by Susanne Pacey I recently took one of Cindy Taylor's photography classes through Sir Sanford Fleming College, Cobourg Campus. Cindy is a great teacher with many years of experience as a professional photographer and has great energy and enthusiasm. Danielle Boughen covered the technical end of things in the computer lab. It was a wonderful experience. I learned more about taking pictures on manual settings as well as how to make use of light, histograms, Lightroom and Photoshop to enhance the photos I take. Cindy also shared many tips which included how to make great portraits. I'd highly recommend this course. The first assignment was to take 50 different pictures of an egg, without using any props or moving it. I soon realized that would mean I'd have to play with light. So one night I got out 5 flashlights and a CD (to use to reflect light onto the egg), some objects to cast shadows, my tripod and my new Canon SX40 camera (Russ will be glad to know it's a point and shoot type, rather than a digital SLR) and had fun painting with light. Here are some of the results.

I remembered a previous NPC challenge was to take a picture of water drops on a CD and shine light on them. This made me think that I

could get some interesting colours reflecting off a CD onto my egg. I needed two hands so I put my camera on a tripod and used the 10 second delay timer


Susanne Pacey’s “Eggsperience” photos.

It was tricky at first to get the camera to focus.

Focusing on the edge helped. To get the whole

egg lit around the edges I shone flashlights onto

it from many directions. I discovered that some

flashlights made a warm light and the LCD ones

made a cool light. When I saturated the pictures

in Picasa the warm ones became orange and the

cool ones blue.

I experimented over 2 days and ended up taking

350 shots!

(Thanks, Susanne, for sharing these lovely photographs and explaining your

image-creating “eggsperience”. Hopefully, other members will be inspired to

submit some of their own “eggsperiments”!! Ed.)


Spring Photography Workshop with

Mary Talbot

The Joy of Letting Go – Unwrapping

Your Creativity

June 7 – 9, 2013

(Friday evening,

Saturday, Sunday)

photo: © Peg McCarthy

The Woodlawn Inn, Cobourg, Ontario www.woodlawninn.com

Unleash your creativity in a relaxed, supportive atmosphere through illustrated

instruction, audio-visuals, image discussion, and field work in the area.

Mary will demonstrate creative techniques including panning, montages, and

multiple exposures; and illustrate effective arrangement of subject matter in the

picture space.

You should be comfortable and knowledgeable using your photo equipment.

Workshop fees of $305 include lunch, coffee and tea, snacks, and applicable

taxes.

www.marytalbotphotography.com (site is accessible but being updated)

Contact Mary at

[email protected]

http://www.woodlawninn.com/

http://www.marytalbotphotography.com/

mailto:[email protected]


With Outing Director David O’Rourke

The Club’s first Outing in January was to the Ontario

Science Centre. There was no shortage of colourful

objects to shoot and happily not too many school children to

get in the way. Only the heartiest Club members turned up

for the Club’s second January outing, as the weather was

brrrrrr freezing. At the suggestion of Bonnie Bird and

Sharon Thompson, we took in Grafton’s colossal Material

Recovery Facility. We then drove a short distance to Allan

Short’s place in Grafton to warm up from the -20 degrees

temperatures and to taste the excellent coffee, tea and cookies

at Chez Short. Allan then led the group to the Nawautin

Nature Sanctuary for a sunset shoot by the shoreline of Lake

Ontario. Finally, we hope to end January with a trip to the

Oshawa Municipal Airport, but as of this writing that date

has yet to be finalized by the Airport. As always, stay tuned to

the Members’ page of our website for Outings updates: D. O’Rourke photo

http://www.northumberlandphoto.ca/wp/ . Coming up on Sunday, February 10th

, the Club

will once again be lucky enough to be led by accomplished Nature photographer Tony

Crocker http://tcrocker.ca/ in a return visit

to Amherst Island, an Outing originally

suggested by Ormie Van Alstyne. If you like

snowy owls, hawks, and chickadees eating out

of your hand, make sure to keep that day

free!

Materials Recovery Plant outing north of

Grafton

Photo submitted by David O’Rourke

Photo of David O’Rourke submitted by L. Keeley

http://www.northumberlandphoto.ca/wp/

http://tcrocker.ca/


Sharon Thompson group photo of NPC

Science Centre outing.

D. O’Rourke photos

taken at Material Recovery Plant.

Sunset photography

outing to Nawautin Nature

Sanctuary near Grafton.

David O’Rourke photo


TERRY CARPENTER!!!

For the past 43 years I have lived in Peterborough, but I was born in Birmingham, England, and came to Canada as a young child. When I was 18, I

returned to Birmingham, where I was employed as a factory motorcycle mechanic for Velocette motorcycles. In 1967 I came back to Canada with my wife and have been here since then. Although I have been retired for a number of years, my occupation was a tool room machinist at Outboard Marine, Fisher Gauge and General Motors. Violin at Lang Pioneer Village

Glass Sculpture at Corning Museum

My travels have taken me to

England, and parts of the United

States several times. My favourite

places, though, are Algonquin

Provincial Park, Killarney Provincial Park, Peterborough Crown Game Preserve

and other areas surrounding my home. Camping, canoeing and fishing these

areas and, of course, photographing them, are some of my preferred pastimes. I

have been fortunate enough to have exhibited successfully at various art shows

including the Buckhorn Art Festival, Kawartha Art Festival, and most recently at

the Eastern Ontario Photo Show in Picton. (Terry received first and second place

awards at his first-time participation in this exhibition. Ed.)


Featured Photographer: Terry Carpenter

Barred Owl

Osprey and Bird

Bald Eagle

A few years ago, I took up the hobby of painting, watercolours, oils, etc. My love of photography, however, is first and foremost, I don’t think any other hobby could replace it.

Pickerel Weed

< < Pines and Sunset

About 34 years ago, when I was recovering from heart by-pass surgery, I was introduced to photography by a close friend. He came to my home with slides of a camping trip and after talking to him about cameras, etc., I was hooked.

Tulip Closeup

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Featured Photographer…. Terry Carpenter

My first camera was a Canon FTB, film of course, and then I progressed to a

Pentax film SLR. Eventually I embraced digital (Pentax DSLR). Actually I fought

it for a while, but came to see the benefits. I now shoot with two Nikon D300S and

am enjoying every minute. It is so much easier to erase the image rather than

waiting nearly a week to view the mistakes!!

White tail Deer White tail Buck

Tulip close up

Mosport Race Car

Using my Pentax 645, I photographed weddings for 7

years but prefer shooting anything else!! Seriously, though, I prefer nature, both flora and fauna. I’m open to most all aspects of photography and welcome new ideas and challenges. I especially like abstract photography.


Featured Photographer: Terry Carpenter

Moose and Loon…..(read story below) One of the most satisfying moments came when I was camping with a friend on Rosebary Lake, in the interior of Algonquin Park. For ten days, he and I had photographed up to about 15 moose each day. One early morning I was standing by the water’s edge shooting moose in the mist when I saw a couple of loons swimming nearby. I couldn’t help wishing that one would just glide by in front of a moose. My wish came true. A loon dove and surfaced right in front of the moose which had just looked up from feeding. I was able to get two shots before the loon dived again. All this and mist too! What a photo opportunity!! I was very impatient waiting for the slides to be developed but was overjoyed by the results. To say this was one of my most treasured memories is an understatement!! There are several events that are memorable to me. One time a friend and I were trailing a moose along a single trail flanked on both sides by a swamp, we arrived at the end and couldn’t go any further. As we got to the end we were debating what to do when I spied the animal and shouted to my friend “MOOSE“!! My friend was looking towards the swamp but the moose was just to the side in the thick bushes, about 10 feet away. The moose decided it was going to come back along the trail and as there was nowhere we could go we started to run, but as quickly as we ran, so did the moose. We eventually burst out of the woods onto the road, where we had started, with the moose on our tails.


To our amazement and chagrin, there was a group of about 15 people, all with their cameras at the ready thinking we were the moose making all that racket.

We approached the group explained that there was indeed a moose and then the darn thing just sauntered out onto the road as if nothing had happened. I did get a close-up though, just an eye but it was very blurred!!

Wolf

So why do I take

photographs? Not

just to record

moments in time

but to look back

and relive them.

I’m sure all of you

have favourites,

and I have quite a

few. There are

always new

challenges and

ideas in

photography and I

look forward every

day to shooting

favourite and diversifying subjects. Canoes and Camp. Crab Lake

(Ed. note: Huge thanks, Terry, for sharing your thoughts, comments and beautiful

photographs with our members.)


1)Subject: Inside Look at the Sigma Factory –

PictureCorrecthttp://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/inside-look-at-the-sigma-

factory/#.UPRmUpVPq-E.email Posted by: Bob Robertson"

2) Subject: How to Add a Smoke Effect to Light Painting Photography

PictureCorrect Posted by Bob Robertson

3)Subject: How to Use Canon’s Radio Based Wireless E-TTL Speedlite Flash

System – http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/how-to-use-canons-radio-based-wireless-

e-ttl-speedlite-flash-system/#.UPSCvoE11Gg.email Posted by Bob Robertson

4) NOTICE TO ALL NPC PHOTOGRAPHERS: If you are interested in entering the

36th Annual AGN Juried Art Exhibition this year, you will find the information

needed on this website: http://www.artgalleryofnorthumberland.com/ Work must

be submitted at the AGN, Cobourg, on Feb. 4, 2013. Posted by Dawn Knudsen

5) Canon AE-1 film camera for sale. Serial # 4991702. Accessories: Canon 52mm lens, Canon lens 28-80mm and Canon Zoom 80-200mm multi-coated auto 2X teleconverter. Canon speedlite flash with various filters All accessories have their own individual pouches for storage attachable strap. Asking Price: $200.00 or best offer Must see. Available for viewing at February meeting.

Selling for a friend. Posted by Bryan Marjoram

6) A number of our members have asked me about seeing the "Northumberland Through Our Eyes" show on the "big screen", so I have made arrangements with Ken Prue for a special screening of the show for club members on Sunday February 3 at 4:30 pm at the Northumberland Mall Theatre. When you arrive at the theatre please show your name badge to get in. Family and friends are welcome to attend. See you at the movies!! Posted by Andreas Gada

Upcoming Events, For Sale

Items, Websites, Work Shops,

Anything of Interest to Our

Members!!!

http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/how-to-use-canons-radio-based-wireless-e-ttl-speedlite-flash-system/#.UPSCvoE11Gg.email

http://www.picturecorrect.com/tips/how-to-use-canons-radio-based-wireless-e-ttl-speedlite-flash-system/#.UPSCvoE11Gg.email

http://www.artgalleryofnorthumberland.com/


MEDIA RELEASE

February 1st-28th Impresario Artisan Market Gallery presents:

New Work by

Northumberland Photography Club

Every Day in a Different Way

OPENING RECEPTION

Meet the photographers

Saturday February 9th 1pm – 3pm

37 King Street West, Cobourg

Featured in the Gallery: Northumberland Photography Club a curated selection Every Day in a Different Way is a curated selection of painterly and playful photography by members of the Northumberland Photography Club.

About the club: The Northumberland Photography Club was formed to provide an opportunity for members of the community with a wide range of experience and interest to come together regularly to share, learn, and develop photographic skills in an environment that is mutually supportive and committed to exploring the creative and documentary potential of photography. www.northumberlandphoto.ca

Impresario Artisan Market and Gallery: Cobourg's newest gallery and shop showcases hip, whimsical, contemporary Canadian art and craft, with a special focus on Northumberland’s local talent. The fresh, inspiring shop and gallery is located in Cobourg’s heritage downtown district at 37 King Street West. Gallery Hours: Sundays 12-4 | Mon Closed | Tues to Sat 10am – 4pm. For more information please contact Rebecca Baptista at Tel: 289-252-0709 Email: [email protected] or visit www.impresariomarket.ca Submitted by Elaine Amenta

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.impresariomarket.ca/

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Some Of My Favourite Animal Pics!! Dawn Knudsen .

Cardinal At Feeder

Great Blue Heron

Wolf Cubs

Saw-whet Owl Sleeping

White Tail Deer>>


… by L. Keeley

D. O’Rourke photo

Stairway To Heaven

Our outing to Healey Falls, a few

months ago, took us past the Church Key Brewery a short

distance outside of Campbellford. A devout Methodist

church, back in 1878, it is now a site where spirits of a

different nature prevail. Award-winning ales with quixotic

names such as Holy Smoke, Cranberry Maple and

Decadent Chocolate Porter were the main items of interest

for several of our members. I, however, was more

interested in finding a photographic image that would

relate to the building’s earlier existence and raison d’etre.

I found what I was looking for as soon as I rounded the corner of a large room

and looked up. It was at the top of a long, narrow stairway that had a 90 degree

bend in it. With no room to set up my tripod, the challenge would be to figure out

how to capture a sharp image of what I had in mind. I spent the next few minutes

studying the layout, looking for the composition that would include both the

softly lit stairs and the coloured glass. Having eventually decided where I should

place my camera and how it could be stabilized, I then concentrated on the

lighting, the main source of which was coming through the stained glass window

in the background. I wanted to capture both the pinkish-blue colours as well as

the somewhat silhouetted outline of the steps. Setting my camera on manual

mode, I tried various combinations of shutter speeds and apertures. After each

shot, I checked the histogram and made adjustments to my settings. Finally, an

ISO of 200, an f- 8 aperture and a 1/6 of a second exposure gave me the results I

wanted. I decided I would enlarge this photograph and give it the title “Stairway

To Heaven”. On leaving the Brewery, I bought a bottle of Holy Smoke to toast the

gods who had brought me here.

Again, my thanks to all of you who submitted materials for this issue of the

Monitor. Your support of our club’s newsletter is very much appreciated.

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