Month: October 2012

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SPAO Open House

The School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa will be opening its doors to the public and you are invited! Friday, November 9th from 3pm until 9pm. Tour the darkroom, computer lab, and studio spaces of SPAO View displays, slide shows, and exhibitions of images by our students. Participate in demonstrations, live shoots and a print […]

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Good Colour Management is Important

If you enter club (or other) competitions and print your favourite output, good colour management is important. The first and second sessions in the RAPC’s colour management series were presented Wednesday, Oct. 24th. Glenn Bloodworth provided an introductory overview on good colour management & workflows, and Mike MacKay provided advise on the trials and tribulations of monitors – how […]

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Autumn Outdoor Portraits and Natural Light and Beauty

Two RA Photo club events took place over this past weekend and each was successful despite the possibility of poor weather and other minor mishaps (both events had models that couldn’t make it because of illness). On Saturday, Denis Duchenes led a group of photographers on a shoot in Gatineau Park. The afternoon was a mixture […]

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Call for Participants: City of Ottawa Gallery Archives – Joint Exhibit

As many of you know, the City of Ottawa has agreed to allow the RAPC and other Ottawa photo clubs periodic access to the Archives Exhibition space in the new City Archives building on Tallwood Drive. Our next exhibit in this space will be a joint effort with the Camera Club of Ottawa. Bill McCloskey, […]

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Trials and Tribulations of our Open House Convenor

Izabel Dabrowski has this wonderful story related to the success of the RA Open House I know. I know. Three weeks after the Open House and I’m just getting around to telling you about it? Well, I’ve got my excuses and I’m sticking to them! I lost some Prints. Yes, Prints. The ones from the […]

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Photolife’s TOGETHER Competition

Back in June, Photolife Magazine said that it wanted to dedicate its October/November issue to Canadian photo clubs. It asked for submissions of images under the theme TOGETHER. The current issue publishes 21 images from the participating clubs. The RA Photo Club is represented by Gord Weber’s First Day of School. All photo clubs’ submissions […]

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