Author Archives: Brian Kilpatrick

NIKON AF-S Nikkor 18-140mm. 1:3.5-5.6G ED VR DX Zoom Lens

Posted on by June 13, 2017
NIKON AF-S Nikkor 18-140mm. 1:3.5-5.6G ED VR DX Zoom Lens.
ONE year old. PERFECT Condition. Paid $700. Asking $350 cash.
DETAILS: Goes from wide-angle (18mm) to telephoto (140mm) for great snapshots and videos in just about any situation; Nikon Silent Wave Motor (AFS) enables fast, accurate and quiet autofocus; VR image stabilization for sharper handheld photos and videos in low-light situations and at telephoto distances; Extra-low Dispersion (ED) glass minimizes chromatic aberration, and aspherical lens element virtually eliminates coma; Nikon Super Integrated Coating (SIC) enhances light transmission efficiency and offers superior color consistency and reduced flare.
Hafeez. 604-307-4648.
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Quick Reference for CAPA Events 2017-2018

Posted on by June 12, 2017

QUICK REFERENCE for CAPA COMPETITIONS: 2017/2018

     Title:

 Closing Date
   Fall Nature October 30, 2017
   Fine Art October 30, 2017
   Fall Print October 30, 2017
   Photo Journalism November 30, 2017
   Black & White

***(CAPA theme not our print challenge)

 January 30, 2018
   Creative Altered Reality February 28, 2018
   Audio Visual Presentation March 31, 2018
   Spring Open March 31, 2018
   Spring Close-up  April 30, 2018

 

****(Crescent Beach is hosting the Fine Art and Altered Reality from all clubs in Canada and these two competitions will be judged off site/not on a meeting night—-BUT we will still be judging our own altered reality and fine art on a club night)

Others:

Pacific Digital-Coquitlam—–date TBA

Lions Gate Celebration of Nature:    November 12th

North Shore Challenge——-usually March

Fraser Valley Invitational—-???? Usually May but ????

Black and White Print Challenge: CBPC: April 14th 2018

 

***Please note—there may be changes to above —this is for a quick reference, so that you can be thinking ahead to what you want to take photographs of this summer:

June 24: A Cloverdale Train Ride with the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society:

Posted on by July 10, 2017

Crescent Beach Photo Club is getting together again to take photographs—hope to see you there:

A Cloverdale Train Ride with the Fraser Valley Heritage Railway Society:

 

MEET/PLACE:    Highway 10 and 176A Street, Cloverdale (behind the Clydesdale Inn)

WHEN/TIME:    Saturday June 24th—-everyone meet at Cloverdale Station at 9:40 for a 10:00am ride——

There will be a small cost to this adventure of $10.00 per senior ($15.00 if you are not a senior)

The train ride will be return, leave your car at Cloverdale Station—– -the ride is approximately 1 hour and the society is offering complimentary speeder rides and barn tours on our return: 

After our barn tour/speeder rides we will get together for coffee/lunch in Cloverdale TBA–

 

Bring your camera and be prepared to take photographs en route—-***PS—the society would love to see some of our photographs and may use some of them as promotion/advertising etc.:

 

Lynne Kelman/President/CBPC

Our summer theme is: Summer Activities Family Reunions, Fairs, Fireworks, Parades and Rodeos

Posted on by June 6, 2017

Hi All,

Our summer theme is: Summer Activities 
Family Reunions, Fairs, Fireworks, Parades and Rodeos
This theme offers something for everyone! While you’re out capturing the best our summer has to offer, why not consider thinking about a particular point of view, such as ‘bird’s eye’ or ‘worm’s eye’. These shooting experiences are also likely perfect for upcoming CAPA competitions: Fine Art and/or Photo Journalism. I’ve included the definitions for each.
CAPA Fine Art
The goal of fine art photography is in creating a fine art image is to use subjects 
and techniques as vehicles in the process of conveying a strong message, idea, 
vision and/or emotion.
 
The artist may need to make the viewer think about what they are looking at and 
consider a different viewpoint than their own perhaps.
CAPA Photo Journalism
Photojournalism relies on an image that tells a story or documents people affected 
by an event or a situation.
 
The image should clearly make one point or convey a message. 
Good composition would greatly enhance the conveying of the story.
 
Please don’t worry about the details of how to name, size and submit your images at this point; I’ll be in touch later on in the summer with those details, just go out and have fun!
Here are a few images to whet your appetite for this theme.
Have a great summer!
Scott Stone
CBPC Theme Chair

Thanks for the Portrait Lighting Workshop

Posted on by February 16, 2017

Many thanks to Mark Efford from Lens and Shutter for his presentation on lighting for Portraits.   It was great to see the lighting in action rather than on a Youtube video.  Also thanks to our model Elizabeth (Lizzy) for being very patient with all the changes in light setups.

I thought I would provide some links to equipment and software that was used in the presentation.   Also a reminder that, as Mark mentioned, you can do almost the same thing with a couple of Speedlights (flashes) and reflectors.  You just don’t get quite the power out of them and can’t shoot as fast.

The Promaster 2 and 3 light kits are available from Lens and Shutter https://lensandshutter.com/

 

The reflectors and umbrellas are also available through them.  Flash triggers like the Pocket Wizards he used are widely available and specific triggers for the Promaster lights are available from Lens and Shutter.

Software that we used to tether the Nikon D800 to the computer was Adobe Lightroom.  It supports a long list of Nikon and Canon DSLR cameras.  Check to see if your camera is supported.

https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/kb/tethered-camera-support.html

If you have another brand of camera your manufacturer may supply software that allows you to tether to a computer as does my Olympus.

 

Snap of part of the setup

There are also some third party software packages that can help with tethering, some free and some at a reasonable price.

Do a Google search for Camera Tethering.

The only other things you need to tether are the USB cable that came with your camera and an Active USB cable if you are going to be more that a few feet from your laptop.  There is a limit of 15 feet total for standard USB and it gets pretty iffy at that length.  The Active cable  uses power from the USB connection to power a small amplifier in the cable to boost the signal.  The one we used at the workshop was a Certified Data Active USB Cable from London Drugs.  https://www.londondrugs.com/certified-data-usb-3.0-extension-cable—5-meter—gusb3-a5m/L8340432.html

Once again our thanks to Mark from Lens and Shutter and our model Lizzy.

Organize your Photos with software

Posted on by February 22, 2016

Software tip for managing out of control photo collections.

This is just a tip for those who are trying to make sense out of a mixed up collection of photos on your PC or Mac.  You know you have lots of photos on your machine but you also know that you have a lot of duplicates.  Web versions, slideshow versions etc. as well as your full sized out of the camera JPG or RAW files.

Here are links to some software that may help tame the mess.

NUMBER ONE THING,    BACKUP.

Be sure you have a complete backup of your photos before attempting to clean them up.  Hard drives are cheap and  a good backup can prevent a lot of hair pulling and teeth grinding.

Duplicate finders

Windows  

Best one that I have used is a free one (donations welcome.

Visipics   http://www.fosshub.com/VisiPics.html

Sorts and finds duplicates, easy to use and has Autoselect to choose duplicates with an easy to use slider to determine how exact the match is.  Not fast but very accurate.
I found it so good that I went to the trouble of copying all my images from Mac to a
Windows Fat 32 formatted hard drive so I could run this program. After sorting I will copy them back to the Mac and update Lightroom catalogs.

Mac

Several good ones but all of the Mac versions tend to find duplicates that are not really duplicates, eg: multi frame shots where the image only changes by a fraction etc.  You have to go through and check the found set to ensure there are no errors.  Easy to do as they display images side by side and one click can cancel the marking.

Unik  https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/unik-duplicate-image-finder/id431820180?mt=12
Photo Sweeper   https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/photosweeper/id463362050?mt=12

Photo sorters, File sorters

Mac

File sorter
Big Mean Folder Machine  http://www.publicspace.net/BigMeanFolderMachine/

Will sort from multiple folders to single folder or from single folder to a folder structure based on size, name, etc.  Can rename or just add a series letter or number when encountering duplicate file names.

Beautiful Backup   http://www.beautifulbackup.com/

Will sort your photos based on the metadata within as well as videos.  It can create any kind of folder structure you wish based on templates.  It can also be set to filter out small images (you decide on size) and place them in a separate folder on your destination.

I use this one to collect images into Year/Year/Month/Day format and then read them directly into Lightroom.

Windows

I know there are some out there.  Send me some links if you have used them and I will add them to the list.

Remember rule number one,   BACKUP

AGM – President’s Report

Posted on by May 1, 2014

President’s Report 2013-2014 Year

We had a full and varied program this year with a number of excellent external speakers including Nick Didlick (twice), on news and Olympic photography, and video; John Gordon, on bird photography; Allen Bargen on the philosophy of judging; Francois Cleroux on the history of photography; Rick Church on aerial photography; Adam Gibbs on landscape photography; and Ursula Easterbrook on her trip across Canada. In addition we had presentations by members, including Lynne Kelman on Topaz; Karen Kroeker on embroidered photos; Brian Palmer on video; and Thomas Dethlefsen on his trip to Tanzania.

We had outings, field trips or workshops by Deb Reny to Granville Island and Downtown Christmas lights; an inter-club trip to Point Roberts to photograph eagles, arranged by John Ostaf of the Delta club; and a landscape workshop to Golden Ears Park with landscape photography professional Adam Gibbs. I have been personally disappointed by a relatively low level of member participation in these excellent opportunities and hope to encourage more members to participate next year.

We entered many external competitions, both local and CAPA arranged, and hosted the fall 2013 CAPA Print Competition. And we had a successful Black and White Print Competition, something for which our club is well known. Many members assisted with this to make the evening a success, and I thank them all. Thanks to digital chair Thomas Dethlefsen, print chair Geoff Hayes, and CAPA competitions chair Geoff Milne. Finally we had many intra-club theme competitions; thanks to Glenis Lyttek for looking after those.

 We also took part in an project and exhibition at the White Rock Museum, pairing member-taken photos with archival photos from the museum’s collection to create “Then and Now” pairs to be displayed and then sold to help the museum.

Thanks

Derek