TCPC Club ZOOM Meeting: JP Stones, creating travel photographs that focus on the culture and people of a place.

• JP has spent the last 5 years photographing the same group of Mexica, or Aztec, dancers connecting with the Mexica and their mythology.
• He will detail how storytelling can help your audience connect emotionally with your images.

Upcoming Meetings & Events:

• Meeting in person
• Voting on final 6 images to be submitted to LGCC competition
• CAPA Judge Sue Olsen will be going through an image evaluation
• Fun Photo Challenge to our Members
  • We have borrowed an idea from DPS (Digital Photography School)
  • “Singular, non plural. ‘Shoe’
  • When given a very simple object, can we stop and think about a way to photograph that object with some extra interest, some interesting lighting, a very random perspective? Photograph a shoe in a way that it’s not been photographed before?
  • “Shoe” It’s likely most of us have one or two (or a load more!) but how will we photograph it? (Just one, not the pair)”
  • Bring to the meeting on a USB drive

• Prepare 2 or 3 images you would consider submitting to a competition.
• It is not that you will submit them but if you were.
• They can be similar or totally different.
• It is feedback to help you choose between photographs.
• Sue will look at the photos and prepare her critique before the October 25^th meeting.
• Submit the photographs of your choice to Steve Kazemir before midnight October 21^st.

• Meeting on Zoom
• Dennis Ducklow
• Multiply Your Creativity with Double Exposure

• Meeting in person
• Members bring in 2 or 3 images they might consider to submit for a competition or simply a few images where they can’t decide which is better. 
• Club members will view the images, compare and give feedback on which might be the stronger image and reasons they think this to be the case.

• Meeting on Zoom
• Presenter – Mark Hemmings – IPhone Photography
• https://secure.photographypro.com

Competitions

• long exposure clouds (and I would presume water) as well as no star trails
• composites
• adding or removing elements of any kind - including that annoying branch in the corner, you will either have to leave it or crop it out.
• panoramas and/or stitching together images
• creative filters, including infrared
• anything that implies ‘hand of man’ - this includes cut stumps, man made paths, cultivated plants and fields, cut grass etc.
• vignettes or finishing borders

• Botanical - must be photographed in the wild.
• Nature - can be a wild or controlled environment as long as there is no evidence of human elements.  The exception to this is if the human element contributes to the image story and is less than 10% of the image.
• Wildlife - must be living free and not under direct control of humans.  Wildlife photographed in natural parks are permitted because they are not reliant on humans for care and food.  Animals in game farms are excluded from the wildlife category but are permissible in the nature category so long as it meets the aforementioned criteria.
• Because of this specification please identify your submitted images as either nature or wildlife.

• The deadline for submissions for the club to vote on which images to advance is October 21st at midnight. 
• Submit your images with the usual dimensions of 1920 X 1080 to Steve at competitions@tricityphotoclub.ca  
• The images will be voted on at the club meeting on October 25th.

CAPA Judge's Course

• October 22, 2022, from 9:00AM to 5:00PM.  There is limited registration, so please register early.
• The course will take place at the Eureka Temple Society Hall (Masonic Hall), 20701 Fraser Highway, Langley, BC.
• The costs for the course are as follows:
  • Non CAPA Members - $175.00
  • CAPA Individual Members - $125.00
  • Recertification for existing CAPA Judges (Must be on current Judge's list) - $75.00
• The link for registration is as follows: https://capacanada.ca/events/judging-course-surrey-bc-2/
• Any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at president@langleycameraclub.ca