2011 Schedule

Courses are taught by volunteer Camera Club members with other members assisting students as required.   Small classes of 6 students and they fill up fast!   Wait lists are available.

Contact: Jane Cherry at 780 672-9949 to register for the courses and for course costs.

Camera Club members are welcome to sit-in on the courses, but if members would like to be a “student” with instructor attention they should register with Jane and pay the fee.

Buying a Digital Camera

What to know ‘before’ you buy!
Time: 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Date: Fri 21, 2011

How to Use a Digital Camera

Learn how to use your camera.
Bring your camera and user manual with you. Learn about F Stops and Shutter speed and how it relates to the settings on your digital camera such as portrait, landscape, and night shots.   Learn how to use the scenes to create the look you want and much more.

Time: 1:00pm to 4:00pm
Date: Sat Oct 29, 2011 (1-4pm) and Nov 5, 2011 (1-4pm)
Two consecutive Saturdays

Basic Digital Darkroom

How to organize, improve and produce digital photography using a computer.   Overview of why you want to do this and then an intro into how to make changes to your photos.
Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Date: Sat Nov 19, and 26, 2011
Two consecutive Saturdays

Photographic Composition

How to compose great pictures! Learn the rules of composition. Choose a main subject.   Use lines, rule of thirds, move in close, watch the background, angles, framing and more.   Bring three (3) pictures with you that you would like critiqued.

Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Date: Dec 3, 2011

The CCC is a non profit organization and the Spectacular is a fund raiser and also a project that we take to the community. The show is taken on the road by volunteer members of the CCC to show at Seniors Lodges in Camrose. Seniors at Bethany Meadows, Stony Creek, RoseAlta and others have all enjoyed our Spectacular Show.

Date & Times

Friday, March 23, , 2012
Chuck MacLean Art’s Center
4809  52 Street

Doors Open - 6:00 pm
Digital Show – 7:00 pm

Suggested Donation: $5.00/adult (18 years and up)

Saturday, March 24, 2012
Chuck MacLean Art’s Center
4809  52 Street

Doors Open – 1:00 pm
Digital Show – 2:00 pm

Suggested Donation: $5.00/adult (18 years and up)

Tuesday March 13, 2012 – Booster takes picture

Tuesday March 20, 2012 – Picture in the Booster

Group Submissions for Digital Show

Jan 3, 2012 – Oh, Canada – bring pictures that depict scenes of Canada (view submission on Jan 10 2012)
Jan 10 2012 – View submissions for “Oh Canada”
Jan 17, 2012 – Club Activities – Bring pictures that show the club members in various activities of the club
Feb 7, 2012 – Favourites – Bring 3 pictures that are your favourites, to be included in the favourites show

These shows will be reviewed at a CCC meeting.

Individual Submission for Digital Shows
Completed Shows containing pictures, music and/or narration. Use Collect Show files in Proshow Gold

Show guidelines – Maximum 5 minutes long, created in ProShow Gold, and bring to Camera Club to be compiled into larger show.   Use guidelines below.

CCC_Spectacular_guidelines – PDF – 2 pages

Note: If you are using film or slides for your show, they need to be scanned and cleaned up – start now 2011. There are members who are willing to help, but advance notice is required. It can take many hours to clean up scanned images. So start early. Morvyn has time over Xmas to clean up slides.

Feb 1 – 29 – select members will start to compile the completed shows and put all submitted shows into the 1 hour segments.

Dry run Part 1 – 1 hour - March 6, 2012
Final viewing  March 13, 2012

Static Displays

Member Static Displays

Member submissions by February 28 2012
Completed by March 20, 2012 (setup afternoon of March 23)

Group Static Displays
Folders are setup on the club computer for the following categories. You can submit photos in all categories or just some, your choice.

Completed by March 20, 2012 (setup afternoon of March 23)
- e.g. What Is It display, Club Activities, Memorials, etc

Guidelines for Displays

• Framed pictures - for tables and peg boards
• Digital Frames
• Poster Boards or white form core – for walls or peg boards – story boards
• Photo Albums, Portfolios, CCC History book, Individual Scrap Booking, creative examples of what you do with your photos, quilts, cushions, T-Shirts, coffee table books etc.
• Laptops with digital slide shows

Jan 13th – Static Display – Member submissions

• Club Activities
• What is it Display
• Name that Town

Door Prizes

Door prizes are drawn and we need framed photos or gift certificates. Please let Roberta know if you have a framed picture or gift certificate you want to give to the camera club.

Refreshments Volunteers – TBD

Others are always needed to help,
contact Helen or Mo.

• Bread, cheese and punch are served after the show

Advertising

• Programs - 200 printed – Morvyn
• Posters – Lisel M
• Business Cards – James
• Booster Picture
• Registration tables

Setup/tear down Crew & Technical Crew

Anyone who can lend a hand at helping to setup chairs,
tables and displays contact Roberta or Doug Noden.
Each member is responsible to making arrangments
for their displays to be taken down at the end of the show.

• Feb 28 - verify that room is reserved for setup on Friday afternoon March 23, 2012
• Crew:

Senior Lodges in Camrose

Dates need to be confirmed for the Lodges in Town – Rosealta, Stony Creek, Crossroads, Deer Meadows, Bethany Meadows, Sunrise Village.