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Welcome to our
revamped Images
Newsletter!
Our subscribers now
include photographers, clients, agencies,
travellers and dreamers from across the globe so
editorial content has been expanded for an
international and a local
Vancouver, BC area audience. My wife, Anna,
and I continue to travel frequently with a month
long visit to Panama, Ecuador, Peru and
Chile just completed and plans for Caribbean,
Greek Islands, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Israel and
Italy in place. We continue to guest lecture
on cruise ships and have expanded
our digital and travel
photography classes and lectures .
We will continue our Photography
Tips for new and enthusiast photographers
and include local and
international photography events. See our
new Travel Tales section for some
of our recent travel adventures and browse this
newsletter to see a sampling of recent
works. Works? How can this be work? - this
is too fun! By the way - join us in
the Greek Islands and Turkey May 16 - June
5/07 for a fun-filled amateur photo
related "Focus" tour. Another of Dave
and Anna's excellent adventures! For info
... your Images editors -
David & Anna Smith
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Our collection is quickly expanding as a result of
recent trips to Mexico, Central and South America.
Our archives are search, lightbox and RSS
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 New Photographer
Tip: Managing the use of your point
and shoot flash.
Understand how to change the
flash settings on your camera. Pressing the camera
button with a lightning bolt icon or scrolling the flash
options in your LCD menu will give you selections of
auto flash, flash on always, flash off always, red eye
reduction and sometimes party mode for increased
exposure plus flash.
With strong backlight, force
the flash on to fill in the face shadows. From our wedding
gallery
Forcing the flash on when
taking people pictures on a bright day will fill in the
shadows caused by sidelight on wrinkles and raccoon eyes
from overhead sunlight. In auto mode, your cameras light
meter will detect bright backlighting and fail to light
the faces facing the camera so force the flash on.
Disable the flash indoors when you have natural light to
avoid the harsh and glaring light in faces. The
party mode will help increase exposure in dark rooms so
you can make out the people behind the front row.
Remember - you are smarter than your camera!
Enthusiast
Photographer Tip Producing
Multimedia Slide Shows
Showing your multimedia shows
to an audience? If the audience is comprised of
"disinterested" people (i.e. are not family members
or emotionally involved with the show's content)
then try to keep your slide shows to 5 minutes or less.
(Older folks will remember the boring super 8 movies
without sound and no editing). Keep the show fast
paced and move through the images at a maximum 5 second
duration to keep everyone interested. Selecting the
right music genre and beat to match the shows
subject will make you a Hollywood Producer star!
Hint: Search and sample the
thousands of music archives at www.freeplaymusic.com for
license free home use. You can select short and long
versions of each title and dowload as MP3's for quick
insertion into your shows. Use the free iTunes (from
www.apple.com) to manage
all your audio files and import your music
CDs.
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Focus on Greece and
Turkey - May 16-June 5/07. A fully escorted tour
for amateur photographers. Visit Athens,
Mykonos, Paros, Santorini, Samos, Kusadasi
region and Ephesus. Land and Air packages
available. For info click here.
Spots are now being booked and
since this tour is limited to 24 maximum be sure to
arrange your booking ASAP. Tour info sessions
presentations will be held in Vancouver at the
Great Expeditions office at 7:30pm Feb. 13; Oakridge
Seniors Centre 10am Feb. 19 and Kerrisdale
Seniors Centre 3:15pm Feb. 20. (Contact
Susan at Great Expeditions 1-800-663-3364 or
604-257-2040).
Photo Classes at the
Parkgate Community Centre Announced. We will
start our popular series of classes at a new location in
the North Vancouver, BC's Parkgate Community
Centre in April. See the schedule
here
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Class Schedule
Updates.Our introductory
digital photo classes for February at the Ferry
Building Gallery in West Vancouver
were sold out and just a few seats remain
for this Sunday Feb 11/07 daytime Level 1
intro class at the Surrey
Art Gallery (Register 604-501-5100 - drop in if the phone line is closed ).
Space is still available in the Feb 15/22
Intermediate Digi Photo two evening
class at West Vancouver's Ferry Building Gallery
(register at 604-925-7270). Our new Hands On
Digital Photo Class at the Surrey Art Gallery
(Sunday Feb. 18) will include equipment and photo
technique demos and team leaders to help
individuals at all levels. To view our entire Feb.
- June 2007 schedule of digital and travel
photography classes, class details and registration
procedures click here
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TRAVEL TALES
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"Ola" from
Chile |
Chile: Its the last day of
our South American adventures. We hop the shuttle
into downtown Punta Arenas, a small city across from
Tierra del Fuego, at the very southern tip of
Chile. It is cold and windy - even for a "summer's" day.
A quick tour of the town square brings us to a tiny
vendor stall displaying local artwork and beaver pelts
and manned by a serious looking gent with an incredible
bushy moustache and a beaver hat. A true photo op
is an understatement! While David ponders a
strategy to get a quick closeup portrait, Anna leaps in
front of the camera to rub the man's hat to warm her
hands. Everyone breaks out in laughter. Not only does he
willingly pose for several great pics, he holds our RCMP
Mounty doll and proudly salutes. Watch for more pics in
future newsletters with "our new travelling companion -
"McMounty"
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Anna & and young friend in
Ecuador |
Ecuador. On a sunny
Sunday last month we hike about Manta, Equador. Manta is
a small beachside town with a wonderful market and
amazingly friendly people .
All the tourists go left so we go right
to mingle with the locals and practice our Spanish.
Within minutes we are overwhelmed with genuinely
friendly "beunas dias" and "ola" and we realize that the
locals are actually glad to meet us as they wave and
smile from pot-holed sidewalks, vintage trucks and
funky cafes. Families insist on practising their
English and being photographed with us! We stroll along
a quiet beachside walkway when suddenly, a young girl
and boy appear and ask Anna if they could give her a
kiss. Permission granted, photos taken. David, naturally
asks their mother to kiss him and she
does!
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 23rd Annual NORTH
SHORE CHALLENGE
presented by The North Shore
Photographic Society. 7:00 p.m. Saturday,
March 3, 2007, Kay Meek Centre for the Performing
Arts, 1700 Mathers Avenue, West Vancouver,
BC. Live adjudication of
digital images from over 25 photo clubs across
BC. Best image and best club awards. Major
Door Prizes. Free refreshments and snacks at
intermission. Admission $15.00. Call
Cheryl at 604-986-2159 for Tickets. Or email:
cyates@paralynx.com. More info is at www.nsps.ca Free
parking. Note: See amazing images! This event will
be of interest to photographers and
non-photographers alike. Excellent competition
last year!
Cycling Through
South America.
Josee Clermont presents
an inspiring and spectacular slide presentation of
a 10,000 km South American Cycling Journey that
she embarked on to raise funds for multiple
sclerosis. Cycling through Patagonia and the
Andes Mountains, she endured 104 km/hour winds,
desert terrain and political unrest, forging ahead
in spite of illness, fear, despair, danger and the
most primitive conditions imaginable. Thursday, February 15, 2007 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Mountain Equipment Coop Head Office 149 W 4th
Avenue – Canada Room $10.00 per person (cash only)
Proceeds will be donated to the MS Society of
Canada
Foto
Image Works - April 28-29, 2007
A Weekend
of Photographic Education, Motivation and
Illumination!! Take your photography to the next
level. Join three award winning professional
photographers for two days of interactive,
informative instruction on a variety of exciting
topics including...Wedding Photography, Child
Photography, Family Photography, Street
Photography, Digital Workflow
Discount for photoclub members. Taking your
Photography to the Next Level For more info
see www.fotoimageworks.com.
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Image
Explorations. Shawinigan Lake, Vancouver
Island, BC. July 15-19, 2007
A week of dynamic professional
development, fun, and fellowship with people who
believe that photography is a passionate and
rewarding career. For info
Image Explorations is a refreshing approach
to personal growth and professional development in
the photographic industry. Modeled after the
highly successful "Texas School", Image
Explorations gives you the opportunity to glean
real life knowledge, tips and ideas from top North
American based photographic instructors.
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