On Thursday, April 3rd, our presenter will be Focus Camera Club member, Tony Boudreau (http://tonyboudreau.zenfolio.com/ ). Tony will be discussing Portraits.
I plan on showing my studio work and a brief intoduction into portraiture. Maybe showing some different setups for lighting and the results.
I got my 2nd SLR camera about 9 years ago and really was fascinated with light and different results it showed. I started off like lots of people and did landscape and nature work, and enjoyed that but wanted more. So I tried Macro and well there we go, the artist flare was set off. I still shot nature but never a tree as a tree or that it was macro and multiply exposures of different things that got me to play with light. Five years ago I got my first model and that was it, Portaiture was the thing for me. I slowly started to build up my studio and did different stuff with with that. I mostly shoot for models portfolios and websites. I do family stuff, but mostly work in the fashion type industry with goals of a fulltime photographer for a magazine.
Tony Boudreau
We will also be presenting Photo Essays by our members. The essays should be about “one song long” (3-5 minutes), of slides or digital and the more contributors the merrier. It’s time to get started on your presentation and everyone is expected to bring one. The club contest will be “Ice and Snow”.
“One might compare the art of photography to the act of pointing. It must be true that some of us point to more interesting facts, events, circumstances, and configurations than others [...] The talented practitioner of the new discipline would perform with a special grace, sense of timing, narrative sweep, and wit, thus endowing the act not merely with intelligence, but with that quality of formal rigor that identifies a work of art, so that we would be uncertain, when remembering the adventure of the tour, how much our pleasure and sense of enlargement had come from the things pointed to and how much from a pattern created by the pointer.”- John Szarkowski
Good shooting
Bill Cooper
MEETING, THURSDAY, MARCH 20TH, 7:00 PM
On Thursday, March 20, our presenter will be, Maurice Henri (http://www.mauricehenri.ca/). “The outline of my talk is the personal development and approach of the creation process of photographic arts. In other words "seeing"”. His presentations are always visually exciting, informative and inspiring.
Maurice was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. He has also lived in, visited and photographed all the Atlantic Provinces, where, he says, “each province inspires its own gold”. He has explored each photographic mine with equal curiosity and enthusiasm. He has devoted a large part of his life cataloguing those unique and unforgettable images. The result of his devotion to the beauty of our region is now archived for life.
He has been creating Stock, Commercial and Portrait photography professionally since 1988. He also hosted and produced “FOTO”; a photography television series featuring education segments and interviews with prominent photographers. Sharing his knowledge with others since 1992, his “Learning Photography Programs” are a very important part of his photographic vision.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“A room filled with art is a room filled with thought”.
Every moment of every day we capture images with our eyes. Most of these fleeting
moments filter through and are forever lost. Some linger a while longer, enhancing our lives.
I want to bring a moment of quiet reflection to the viewer, a pause in time, a moment of
peace, a bit of beauty. I love the Earth and am deeply moved by the beauty and colours of nature.
Mainly, my work is about catching the mood and feel of every moment in creating the photograph. I believe that most interesting art occurs on its own around us. It doesn’t need alteration or enhancement. My assignment is to capture its natural beauty.
I believe that the power of the photographic image can open the heart and change people’s view of the world. A good portrait reveals more than the outward appearance of the subject, it unveils the sitter’s individual situation, inner life and inner longings. It also tells a story of the relationship between subject and photographer. It conveys what the photographer sees, feels and believes.
I am committed to promoting, expanding and sustaining photographic arts in Canada.
“I make it my responsibility as a photographer to use the visual strength of my images to tell a story, transmit emotions and reveal them to the viewer.” - Maurice Henri
The club contest will be “Light-on White”.
Just a reminder to bring Nature and Pictorial pictures for the CAPA club competition! We didn't have enough entries last meeting to start voting on them, and the deadline is this month. The categories are wide open, so we'll take anything :) (only nature has more strict 'rules' but anything goes in pictorials!)
André Richard
Don’t forget to bring a friend.
Keep shooting,
Bill Cooper
Maurice was born in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. He has also lived in, visited and photographed all the Atlantic Provinces, where, he says, “each province inspires its own gold”. He has explored each photographic mine with equal curiosity and enthusiasm. He has devoted a large part of his life cataloguing those unique and unforgettable images. The result of his devotion to the beauty of our region is now archived for life.
He has been creating Stock, Commercial and Portrait photography professionally since 1988. He also hosted and produced “FOTO”; a photography television series featuring education segments and interviews with prominent photographers. Sharing his knowledge with others since 1992, his “Learning Photography Programs” are a very important part of his photographic vision.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“A room filled with art is a room filled with thought”.
Every moment of every day we capture images with our eyes. Most of these fleeting
moments filter through and are forever lost. Some linger a while longer, enhancing our lives.
I want to bring a moment of quiet reflection to the viewer, a pause in time, a moment of
peace, a bit of beauty. I love the Earth and am deeply moved by the beauty and colours of nature.
Mainly, my work is about catching the mood and feel of every moment in creating the photograph. I believe that most interesting art occurs on its own around us. It doesn’t need alteration or enhancement. My assignment is to capture its natural beauty.
I believe that the power of the photographic image can open the heart and change people’s view of the world. A good portrait reveals more than the outward appearance of the subject, it unveils the sitter’s individual situation, inner life and inner longings. It also tells a story of the relationship between subject and photographer. It conveys what the photographer sees, feels and believes.
I am committed to promoting, expanding and sustaining photographic arts in Canada.
“I make it my responsibility as a photographer to use the visual strength of my images to tell a story, transmit emotions and reveal them to the viewer.” - Maurice Henri
The club contest will be “Light-on White”.
Just a reminder to bring Nature and Pictorial pictures for the CAPA club competition! We didn't have enough entries last meeting to start voting on them, and the deadline is this month. The categories are wide open, so we'll take anything :) (only nature has more strict 'rules' but anything goes in pictorials!)
André Richard
Don’t forget to bring a friend.
Keep shooting,
Bill Cooper
Meeting, Thursday, March 6th, 2008, 7:00 PM
On Thursday, March 6th, our presenter will be Verna Poirier. Verna will present a Digital Slide show of her fall trip to Ireland which includes the "Ring of Kerry" and the "Wicklow Way". Verna has been to many places in the world, including, Australia; Mt Kilmajaro; Africa; Machu Picchu; Peru; Galapogos Is; England & the American Southwest to name a few.Verna is a Past President of the Focus Camera Club. Besides all this Verna enjoys biking and is an avid hiker and takes an active role in Search and Rescue. She is new to digital photography. We know you will enjoy her presentation.
The club contest will be “Contre-jour”. Contre-jour, French for 'against daylight’, refers to photographs taken when the camera is pointing directly toward the source of light. An alternative term is Backlighting.
Keep shooting
Bill Cooper
The club contest will be “Contre-jour”. Contre-jour, French for 'against daylight’, refers to photographs taken when the camera is pointing directly toward the source of light. An alternative term is Backlighting.
Keep shooting
Bill Cooper
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