Calendar of Events
Welcome to the 2011/2012 season. Once again, our Program Coordinator, Richard Hallman, will bring us excellent speakers from a wide range of photographic backgrounds. Thank you Richard for the excellent content last season. We will fill in the speaker details as they become known.
| May 9th, 2012 | Presenter: Paul McDermott Topic: Interactive off camera flash covering the different looks flash can create. Paul will be bringing studio lighting, projector and screen with him. Paul is a professional photographer and owner of pmd digital media. pmd digital media offers photography, cinematic videography and workshops with an "out of the box" approach. Each project is driven with a creative mindset yielding images and video that are truly unique. pmd digital media specializes in wedding and music photography, business introduction videos, wedding and cinematic lifestyle videos. pmd digital media also provides workshops ranging from beginner to advanced off camera flash for individual students to over 100. Over the years pmd digital media has developed a individual style that caters to the client looking for something distinctive and unique. Paul's website is www.pmddigitalmedia.com You can also become a Facebook fan @ http://www.facebook.com/pages/pmd-photography/40590900447 An e-book Paul wrote can be downloaded from our Members Only area here. |
| May 16th, 2012 | Hands on Workshop #7 Derek Carlin | ||
| May 23rd, 2012 | Members' Night - Sharing Images |
September 14th, 2011 Bob Moore, "The Wedding Guy"
Topic: Flash Photography
Bob is back by popular demand after a great presentation last January
with lots of new material and a focus on on-flash. Bob Moore
developed his passion for photography at the age of 11 years when he
received his first camera as a Christmas gift. He has been rarely seen
without a camera in his hands since that time. After leaving school he
became a photographic journalist for a major newspaper in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, but soon discovered his niche in photographing people. For the
next 10 years he worked under several of the top child and portrait
photographers in Alberta and BC, studying studio lighting and wedding
photography. He began to feel restricted in the studio and decided to
develop his studio lighting expertise on location with portable
equipment.
At present he volunteers much of his time doing lighting workshops for
local camera clubs in the Lower mainland, sharing his experience of "big
light with small flashes", with aspiring photographers. About 10 years
ago Bob and his wife Pat, who shoots alongside him at all his wedding
events, decided to specialize in wedding photography, and now only does
family and child photography for his existing bridal clients and
friends.
September 28th, 2011 Christa LeCraw, Program Director, Digital Photography of VanArts
Topic: Digital Workflow for the Avid Photographer: How to use Lightroom to catalog, keyword, adjust and enjoy your images for years to come.
Christa has been working in the visual and production
arts for 10 years, beginning with a BA from Queen's University.
After her career in film and television production brought her to
Vancouver she began her career in photography. She received her
technical training from Langara College. In addition to
freelance photography and teaching, Christa has worked as the
Assistant Manager at Lens & Shutter. She is now the Program
Director for Digital Photography at VanArts and a foundation instructor
teaching Digital Workflow in the full-time program. Christa brings the
complexity of digital photography to her students in a most accessible,
comprehensive and inspiring environment for even the most techno-phobic
amateurs.
Notes added to Members area. Click here to view the notes.
October 5th, 2011 Executive Meeting
October 12th, 2011 Ivan Chan
Topic: Green Screen Technology, 360 Virtual Tours and 360 Product
Photography.
This presentation will include the definition of green screen, the green
screen layout that Ivan uses and some sample videos and still photo
extractions. He will also discuss indoor and outdoor 360 virtual tour
photography and 360 rotation product photography. His web site is:
www.ivanchanphotography.com and you can see a short video about his
photography here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHDFqKJvxKU
About Ivan:
Ivan Chan is a professional photographer based in Vancouver. Ivan
provides a range of services including 360 degree photography, night
photography, food photography, photo retouching, 3D rendering,
portraiture, real-estate and product photography. Ivan has a passion in
still life photography relating to architecture, scenery, products and
signs
October 26th, 2011 John Lee
Topic: 2010 Winter Olympics -stories and photos from John's
exclusive access to the athletes village during the 2010 Winter Olympics.
In January of 2010, the IOC approached John Lee to be the Official
Vancouver Olympic Athletes Village Photographer. On February 4th, 2010
John started a 28 day whirlwind project that resulted in tens of
thousands of images being created. Apart from a special media day, John
was the only photographer allowed to shoot inside the residential
portion of the Village. Over the course of the Games the best of these
images were displayed in the Village in two ever-expanding photography
galleries. The images are now found in the Legacy Book as well as the
IOC permanent library and in the archives of the Village daily
newspaper. John is excited to share these images that offer rare
glimpses into everyday life in the Olympic Village.
Bio:
When I was 7 years old there was a lightbulb reflected in my bedroom
window. It looked like a UFO hovering over the street outside. I
borrowed my Dad’s Ektamatic 126 camera and took a picture of it. Four
months later we got the film back. It looked like a lightbulb reflected
in my bedroom window. I slept a little better that night.
When I was 10 years old Star Wars came out. I went 18 times. Serious. I
took all my model spaceships outside, lit them on fire and recorded it
on my Dad’s Boler Super 8mm movie camera. Four weeks later I got the
film back. The movie looked like I was burning all my model spaceships.
When I was 14 years old a National Geographic photographer gave me his
Polaroid SX-70 and told me to take a picture of him. I did. 45 seconds
later he told me to never center your subject in the viewfinder. I then
took a photo of the sky with just his ear in the side of the frame. 45
seconds later he said that looked better.
I went to photo school where I learned about lens refraction and
chemistry. I even learned the Scheinflug Law and how to correct for
parallax error.
I became a photo assistant and learned that I hadn’t learned anything in
school. I became a photographer and learned I hadn’t learned anything as
an assistant.
17 years later I’m still a photographer. I still look at reflections in
windows. I still look at Star Wars in awe. I still shoot skies with
people’s ears protruding into the frame. I still love Polaroid film, but
it seems kind of slow. Most of all, I still love looking at things. I
still love holding a camera. I still love capturing images and showing
other people what I see. I love being a photographer, it's what I have
been all along, and since I'm too small to play in the NHL, it's what I
plan on always being.
November 2nd, 2011 Photomotion Jury of Shows
November 9th, 2011
Dave and Mary Martin (PDPC Members)
This summer Dave
and Mary Martin took two photo tours. They began by spending a week in
June in the Palouse area of southeastern Washington with Tim Grey and
Wolfgang Kaehler. Then eight days later followed that trip up with an
eighteen day excursion to the Galapagos Islands 1,000 kilometres off the
coast of Ecuador.
Photo tours can be
expensive and do require considerable research and planning to be
successful. In the first part of their presentation, the Martins will
discuss how to research a photo tour and will give you a number of
practical suggestions that may save you a lot of money. They will also
discuss topics such as what to expect from a photo tour, how to check
out the tour leader, and how best to move your photographic equipment to
the trip site. In the second part of their program they will share a
number of images from their 2011 summer trips.
Come and discovery
why tourism in the Galapagos is both one of the greatest threats to and
best hopes for preserving the quality of life on these remote Pacific
islands - for humans, plants and animals.
November 16th, 2011 Photomotion Dry Run (Nov 26th Photomotion)
November 23rd, 2011 Tony Dathan (PDPC Member)
Topic: Studio Setup and Lighting and Wildlife Photography
Bio: I have been involved in photography for 20+ years and used to have
a small basement studio and colordark room. I put down the cameras for
an 8 year period and when I came back to photography digital had taken
over and my relearning had begun! My basement studio has grown to a
portion of the warehouse my business needs and shelving on wheels rolls
out of the way on weekends to give me a good size studio that in the
winter I do model portfolio and portrait shoots with using a number of
Alien Bee lighting equipment ranging from the B400 up to a couple of
B1600 640 ws heads and numerous modifiers.
I also enjoy sports, motor-sports and wildlife photography and use some
larger Canon lenses for this area. While I enjoy birds its the larger
mammals I like and really love bears. I will often be found
photographing the black bears on the North Shore but this past spring
went into the protected Grizzly Bear sanctuary of the Khutzeymateen.
December 14th, 2011 Member's Night - Sharing Images
We have MEMBERS' NIGHT giving opportunities for others to show their images along with a longer break time to mingle, chat and share thoughts, In addition, we also provide "finger food" for this one special evening.
Members are asked to submit up to ten images to be displayed this night. Follow the image prep guidlines and send your images to Hank Weverink
January 11th, 2012 Andy Clark - Senior Photographer, Reuters Vancouver, Canada
Topic: My life in photojournalism with plenty of images
Andy Clark began his career with
The Canadian Press as a copyboy in 1970. Working his way up through the
ranks he became a staff photographer, in 1974, transferring to the
Ottawa bureau covering Parliament Hill. In 1978 left CP to join the
staff of the Hamilton Spectator. Later that same year Andy returned to
the wires signing on with United Press Canada working first in Vancouver
and then again in Ottawa. In 1985 Mr. Clark briefly joined the newly
created Reuters NewsPictures operation before accepting a position as
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s official photographer. In 1987 Andy
re-joined Reuters and has been based in Brussels, London, Toronto and
now Vancouver. Andy has traveled extensively throughout the world
covering famines, disasters, world summits, sporting events, the
first Gulf War and conflicts in the Balkans
Some interesting information about Andy Clark and some of his images
on the web:
http://clarkfoto.ca/index.php
http://blogs.reuters.com/andy-clark/feed/
http://www.redbullillume.com/people/judges-2010/judges/andy-clark.html
http://npac.ca/?p=10991
| January 25th, 2012 |
First
half Speakers: Don Filmer and Hank Weverink of 'The
Magnificent Seven' A few years
ago a group of PDPC and TCPC (Tri
City Photography Club)
members formed a group they call ‘The Magnificent
Seven’ (M7). In the ‘early days’ M7 put on a
very entertaining free afternoon show in the Port
Moody Inlet Theatre. Don Filmer will introduce and show a
presentation about a trek to the Rainbow Mountains near
Anahim Lake. This presentation was developed by Sigmund
Dezski, a member of the M7, who along with other PDPC
members participated in this arduous trek. Hank
Weverink will then discuss some of the interesting things
some of the membership of the M7 actually gets involved in. Second
half Speaker: Allan Liggins
In 2007, before he was a PDPC member, Allan Liggins was invited to
ride along as boat was moved from the Fraser River to
Burrard Inlet. The "CAPE PINE" is a 110 foot wooden
hull built in 1942 for use as a mine sweeper in World War
II. After the war, it became a fish packer on the
coast of B.C., until it was bought for pleasure and tourism
use. It is an unglorious old tub with loads of
character, if you appreciate times past. The first
attached image is the title slide of the presentation.
The second attached image is a map of the move between the purple
numbers 1 and 2. To avoid a long walk, it was then
necessary to travel by Zodiac to a third marina (#3 on the
map) in False Creek. The third attached image proves
the heritage of the boat. The fourth attached image is
the final slide of the presentation, with is not a sunset,
but does show that some people who live in marinas do
appreciate the finer things of life.
The images are shot hand held from a moving boat, so do not expect
to see a North Shore Challenge on water. However, they
will weave a story which will hopefully be of interest.
There are views you do not see from your car.
Allans like to pretend that he is an old "Art Photographer",
but most folks would put an "F" in front of that title.
There is no doubt about the "old" part, for he bought his first
camera in 1957, about 55 years ago. He is still trying
to figure it out. The show, "Moving the Cape Pine",
will demonstrate that Allan does, on occasion, take pictures
other than in Saskatchewan. |
February 8th, 2012 Vladimir Jan (PDPC member since year one)
Topic: File Preparation for Photomotion
Some of the shows submitted for Photomotion have had some issues. This presentation is intended to guide club members in how to properly save their shows as executable files as well as how to use two or three pieces of music in the same show effectively with audio joining etc. Vladimir has been receiving the Photomotion shows for the PDPC for the last three years.
If time will permit he will also show some of his shows and some mixed images.
| February 22nd, 2012 | Presenters: Members of the West Coast Animatography Group |
| Topic: Digital Story Telling (with Proshow) | |
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The PDPC club meeting on Feb 22 will be something a
little different. We have invited the West Coast
Animatography Group founder, Derek Carlin, along with a few
group members to present some of their shows on a variety of
topics. |
| March 7th, 2012 | Members' Night - Sharing Images.
Back on! Members are encouraged to share their PHOTOGRAPHY with other members by submitting up to 10 images (on any topic). It would be appreciated if you would be willing to comment briefly on image highlights. Submit your images in order of importance from 01 - 10 since ,depending on the number of members participating and the time frame available, not all images are guaranteed group exposure. REGISTRATION: |
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| March 28th, 2012 | Ronnie Miranda Topic: Gigapixel Panorama Photography This presentation will show you how to easily shoot and
create high resolution panoramic photos. Gigapixel images
are composed of billion pixels (1,000 megapixels), more than
100 times the information captured by a 10 megapixel digital
camera. They images can be shared online where people can
zoom in and explore the photos in stunning detail. |
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