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Cityscapes Outing – Camera Club of Ottawa

Posted in Articles, tagged alley, alterna, alterna savings, arch, assignment, back alley, bank, bank street, black and white, bricks, building, bw, Camera Club, Camera Club of Ottawa, Christmas lights, city, cityscape, color, colour, concrete block, cs-coop, door, downtown, east, entrance, fall color, fall colour, garage, high rise, l'esplanade laurier, laurier, laurier street, leaves, loading bay, lyon, lyon street, memorial, memorial arch, november, Ontario, Ottawa, Ottawa Ontario, outing, path, railing, railings, rusty, savings, service entrance, sidewalk, sparse, stairs, steps, streets, tall, tiled wall, tiles, towering, tree, urban, veterans memorial building, walkway, west, windows, yellow on November 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This Camera Club of Ottawa outing was on a foggy Sunday morning. The assignment was to shoot urban images in Black and White at 400 ISO within the boundaries of Wellington Street to Laurier Street and Bay Street to Elgin Street. We could submit 6 images in total. These were my shots. Click on the [...]

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Butterfly swimmer at the Masters Ontario Swimming Championships

Posted in Articles, tagged butterfly, championships, competitive swimming, fly, Masters, Masters Swimming, Nepean Sportsplex, Ontario, Ontario Masters, Ontario Masters Championships, racing, swimming, the fly on March 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve spent a lot of my life beside or in swimming pools and currently participate in a Masters Swimming program at a local YM-YWCA. Masters Swimming is an organized training program, not unlike competitive swimming, but aimed at adult swimmers who like to have a coached training program. It is usually a mix of abilities [...]

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SmugMug & WordPress work well with Twitter

Posted in Articles, tagged blog updates, feeds, gallery updates, OpenID, photo updates, profile, recent galleries, recent photos, smugmug, tweet, tweets, twitter, twitter smugmug, twitter wordpress, twitterfeed, updates, wordpress on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve managed to set up both my Photo Gallery (which is powered by SmugMug Pro Account) and this Photo Blog to cooperate with my Twitter stream. Through the use of twitterfeed I’ve been able to set up automatic updates to my Twitter stream whenever I upload images to my website as well as every time [...]

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Starting to Twitter

Posted in Articles, Holiday Junction, Kite Aerial Photography, tagged aerial photography, Craig Wilson, Flickr, Holiday Junction, KAP'n Craig, KAPnRob, Kite Aerial Photography, Rob Huntley, twitter on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve caved in and I am checking what twitter is all about.
I can be followed at http://twitter.com/KAPnRob
There are so many twitterers (probably have the lingo wrong) that it is impossible to get anything resembling your own name without corrupting it with numbers or weird characters. So I have made my own version of Craig Wilson’s [...]

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New Travel Blog at Holiday Junction

Posted in Articles, Holiday Junction, tagged events, experience, holiday accommodation, Holiday Junction, lodging, news, travel, travel blog, travel experience, travel photography, travel pictures, vacation on February 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »

As part of my business site, I recently launched a Travel Blog for posting short anecdotes, postcards, journals, whatever you want to call them, of your travel experiences. It is a good place to promote your photography too. If you have some interesting shots that have an even more interesting back story, please give some [...]

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Kite Aerial Photography Video

Posted in Articles, Kite Aerial Photography, tagged aerial, aerial photography, birds-eye, birds-eye view, Cris Benton, Flickr, KAP, Kite Aerial Photography, photography, San Francisco, view on February 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Here is a very good video that lets you see Kite Aerial Photography (KAP) in action. The 10 minute clip features Cris Benton, a San Francisco area KAPer.

Cris also runs the popular KAP forum called Notes on Kite Aerial Photography where most serious practitioners hang out, share knowledge on new cameras, [...]

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How to Make Tiny Town Miniatures!

Posted in Articles, Kite Aerial Photography, tagged Kite Aerial Photography, KAP, kite photography, aerial photography, Ottawa River, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, covered bridge, winter, ruins, river, Ottawa Ontario, E.B. Eddy, Gatineau Park, Quebec, Rob Huntley, bridge, photoshop, wharf, Aberdeen Pavilion, Cattle Castle, Lansdowne Park, Lansdowne, Frank Clair Stadium, stadium, boats, covered, landscape, Ottawa River Parkway, train, museum, car, tutorial, tips, tricks, ideas, demo, demonstration, fake, tilt-shift, miniature, tiny town, train lines, harbour, Vancouver, Vancouver harbour, passenger train, freight train, crane, slide show, Fishermans Cove, aerial photograph, cove, Fishermans Wharf, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Dartmouth NS, Dartmouth Nova Scotia, shops, boardwalk, Boondocks, dining room, lounge, tiny tow, Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic, Lunenburg Nova Scotia, Lunenburg NS, Lunenburg, NS, Fisheries Museum, Fisheries, Atlantic, ships, yachts, farmhouse, farm house, abandoned, derelict, old, rustic, western, red, red car, traffic circle, traffic, circle, roundabout, traffic roundabout, arrows, Wales, Conwy, Conwy Wales, Champlain Bridge, cars, Canadian War Museum, war museum, Lebreton Flats, grass roof, roof, camouflage, camouflaged roof, bunker, Frank Clair, Lansdowne Park Ottawa, World Wide KAP Weekend, World Wide KAP, Aberdeen, The Cattle Castle, bubble, soccer bubble, sports dome, soccer dome, sports, soccer, dome, winter scene, winter landscape, Wakefield, Chemin Pine on January 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This post demonstrates a process known as “Fake Tilt-Shift” carried out in PhotoShop or other image editing software.
After a mere two weeks of playing with the creation of these miniatures, I don’t imagine I’ve become an expert yet. However, I took the opportunity to share what I’d learned with my camera club, the Camera Club [...]

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Example of a photo salvage operation

Posted in Articles, Kite Aerial Photography, tagged aerial photography, contrast, crop, digital noise, KAP, Kite Aerial Photography, levels, neat image, noise, photo, photo salvage, photoshop, repair, saturation, tilt on May 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Ron’s Kap (Flickr nickname) asked me to share the details of how I salvaged this image:

This KAP (Kite Aerial Photography) session was abandoned after a few minutes due to rain. The few images I had in the camera had to be tilted, cropped and doctored somewhat.
A similar article was also placed in a discussion thread [...]

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Ottawa River Group on Flickr

Posted in Articles on May 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Today I launched a new photo pool on flickr, with the theme “Ottawa River”.
http://flickr.com/groups/ottawariver/

The guidelines at the outset for image submission to this group are as follows:
From it’s source to it’s mouth, images that demonstrate the qualities of the river: size, ecology, beauty, uses, fauna and flora, uniqueness. The river must be the primary subject. [...]

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Shadowed Corners – Challenge Assignment, Camera Club of Ottawa

Posted in Articles, tagged assignment, Camera Club, Camera Club of Ottawa, challenge, challenge assignment, Gatineau Park, Huatulco, Meech Lake, Mexico, Monte Alban, Oaxaca, Ontario, Ottawa, Quebec, Santo Domingo, shadowed corners, shadows on March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

The Camera Club of Ottawa has an annual challenge assignment whereby each participant is assigned a distinct topic by the co-ordinator. We have 4 weeks to shoot a series of images which is then presented at a club meeting. This is a non-competitive, just-for-fun, exercise. The assignment was in late January, early February, a difficult [...]

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