Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia

Our first field trip this year will be an Outdoor Portraiture Workshop.
Meet at 1:00 pm on Sunday, 11th September, 2011 at the Gazebo in the Dingle Tower area in Halifax.

Be ready for a wonderful afternoon of shooting with live models.
Bring your camera, reflectors, tripod, and flash.
Learn and use these tools to augment and control the available daylight.
Instructor: Mervyn Kumar-Misir

See you there!

And once you process your images from the workshop, please do not forget posting an image or two on our PGNS Flick site!

Our traditional wine and cheese season opener is Wednesday, September 7th at the Museum of Natural History at 1747 Summer Street in Halifax.
Guild Members may bring up to 10 images showing “What You Did Last Summer”. Our MC for the evening is Mervyn Kumar-Misir and our hostess is Esther Theriault. An executive update will be presented by our President, Laszlo Podor.

Lynne was one of our models last year.

An opportunity to try an afternoon of studio photography. We will have several models plus an assortment of studio lights and modifiers. Learn how to work with models. We will have a variety of softboxes, a beauty dish and other reflectors to use. See demos of tethered shooting with Adobe Lightroom and colour management with the Xrite Passport.

When: Sunday April 10th from 1:00 to 5:00 pm

Where: Peter Steeper’s Studio in Upper Tantallon

Space is limited to 10 photographers. Contact Peter Steeper to reserve a space.

What to bring: Bring your camera and a sense of adventure. The radio remotes will work with any camera that has a standard size hotshoe (Canon, Nikon, etc) If you have a camera with a non-standard hotshoe (Sony, etc) you will need to bring an adapter for your camera.

Update: This workshop is fully booked. There is waiting list in case of cancellations.

Hosted by Carsand Mosher and featuring Jean-Francois O’Kane ” The Studio Coach”
A full day lighting workshop on using speedlights, HD DSLR video and studio lighting.
Regular price for the workshop is $99 but you can save $20 by booking online or purchasing at Carsand Mosher by Wed. March 17th. There will be a lunch provided, many door prizes and a discount coupon on Booth products purchased within 1 week of the show.

When: Sunday March 27th 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
Where: Atlantica Hotel at the corner of Robie St. and Quinpool St.

More info:
www.boothphoto.com/tour/

www.carsand.com

** Update : 03/06/2011 **
We had a great turnout to the event yesterday and here are a few housekeeping items:

You can download the presentation from Mike McCarthy about “Printing and Print Packages with LR3″ by clicking HERE.

The trial version of the soft proofing Lightroom 3 Plug-in can be downloaded HERE.

Colin Campbell’s presentation on Colour Management is available HERE.

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The Eagle Watch field trip to Sheffield Mills has been moved from Sunday to Saturday, January 29th.

Plan is to meet at the car pool parking lot at 8:15 am and depart at 8:30 am. Hwy 101, Exit 4, turn left at the stop sign and proceed to the parking lot. We will then proceed to Grand Pre area, Wolfville, Port Williams and Church Street. From there we will go to Sheffield Mills and the Middle Dyke Road. Kindly have your Waivers signed and ready to turn in.  Waivers are  under Quick Links on the right.

Most people head out on their own and meet up later. Eagle Watch directions turn off the Hwy 101 at New Minas. Signs are displayed with an eagle head to Sheffield Mills.

LOCATION: Sheffield Mills Community Hall, 98 Black Hole Road (near Canning , Kings Co. N.S.), Directions: Take exit 12 off Hwy. 101 and follow the blue eagle signs or watch for turnoff signs from highway 1 at Greenwich, New Minas, or Kentville.

Eagle Watch weekend presents pancake breakfasts and entertainment for two weekends. Several communities are also planning various options to eat. All of these are fund raisers for the communities and charities for the local area. The upstairs hall in Sheffield Mills will have displays, videos, various artwork including photography and paintings, a native feather ceremony. An interest to photographers this year is the addition of a Photo Safari Workshops.

Check out web site at: http://www.eaglens.ca

Due to the number of people that will be on location at the Middle Dyke Road observing and photographing the activities of birds (and last year, coyotes), you are on you own for the rest of the day to roam around the local areas to photograph the raptors and such.

Kingsport is another favorite locations as is the church parking lot on Church Street, just outside of Port Williams.

If you are interested in meeting up at The Port pub in Port Williams at 5 pm ( http://theportpub.com/) for food, drinks and camaraderie, please let me know, so that I can give them potential numbers. If I got 10 or more responses, we can have a booking

Email me at: johnwmwebb(at)eastlink.ca.