Shooting Raw + Jpeg on canon 350 D- Some surprises

raw at the top, 

Jpg - i actually liked this one 
jpg of the last image 

some examples (these are not my best shots - rather the every day shots where you tend to make mistakes)

Jpg - not very clear, burnt out in some places - please enlarge to see the difference 

Raw - 
Jpg
Raw
Raw - shot the pic without seeing the exposure settings and was surprised by this pic, jpg was totally black 

Workshop - 14-Oct-07

Many thanks to Deepak and Manoharan who made this workshop happen, deepak for the location and manoharan for his time and patience. Next comes the members who were eager to participate and learn, there was even mahendran who cut shot his trip to yercard and reached the venue on time for the workshop.....

Yes the workshop did start on time with breakfast (now standard pongal-idli-vada-coffee) and ended at 6 after lunch and a couple of tea breaks, but more importantly the what happened in-between made a difference.

Pre-lunch session was theoritical

• Types of cameras
• Types of films
• Apperture
• Shutterspeed
• ISO settings
• Composition
• Depth of field
• and many other discussions along these lines....

Post-Lunch session

• Studio equipments - an introduction
• Practical explanation of the types of lighting in studio
• Practical shoot in the office converted studio (yes we had to stick black chart paper on all windows)
• Male model shoots with props
• members taking their own and other's photos

Am sure most of the members were happy about the workshop

A special thanks to our first active lady member Archana who saved the day for the organisers after the ill-fated sms from the female model who was to come-by. I cannot figure how bad the buttefly lighting would have been with anyone else in the modeling seat.....

We look forward to more such sessions at a higher level with all of you

Monthly Meeting - 7th Oct 07

The monthly meeting held on the 1st sunday of every month went off peacefully with about 11 members coming in for the discussion and the now standard idli-vada-coffee, pongal was not available

The members discussed various topics on photography including equipment, the workshop that was coming up the next week, the + and delta

It has now been discussed that in the future the club while organising the trips will form teams/ move together to make learning easy among the members.

Photographic Trip to Gingee and TV Malai - 23rd Sep 07

On the 23rd Sep a fully packed team of 20 photographers left the chennai city in the vee-hours of the morning, a task not many clubs/groups in the city can boast about. After a quick Pongal-idli-dosa-vada-coffee in a motel near melmaruvathur we reached Gingee in the Minibus by 8.35 Am.

A quick wait for the gates to open later, the water bottles brought in were distributed among the members to make the tough climb less thirsty. The group started discussing the various angles and the lighting effects, slowly there were groups discussing the shutter speed/aperture and ISO settings over multi thousand dollar worth of SLRs, Compacts and passion we were carrying.

There was diversity, charm and enthusiasm in the shots which made others learn. From lying down to take the shot of a butterfly to jumping 6 feet above the ground we had it all, there were others who discussed lighting and composition, there were those who made light play the shots.

The team shot, climbed , stumbled among the rocks to get the pictures. Exhausted the team left for Tiruvannamalai and reached the hotel ramakrishna for lunch.

The enthusiastic team never once thought one again to start climbing the TV Malai to reach the mid point and get the shot of the temple with an aerial view. Offcourse there were a couple of "Youth" who had the hangover from the previous night and decided to sleep it off in the Minibus.

The succesful trip ended with drop offs from tambaram and then along the Anna salai right upto ennore .

Please refer the club posts in the period for photos from the shoot

Points to note - Meeting on 2nd Sep 07

It has been a wonderful experience (probably a Kalaasal experience... why am i too impressed with with snaps..) meeting all of you (the nearly 20 odd ones) on sunday. Another point to note is that all of us were on time we started the meeting on time and closed the meeting sharp at 10.

As we found this wonderful experience to be irresistable we have now decided to meet every first sunday at 8.30 AM in woodlands drive-in (missed that pongal and vada this time around :-( ... too many members around )

Manoharan and Vignesh (the club's youngest member) displayed their portfolio and out came more portfolios from prabhakar and self. Others had also brought in their portfolios but we did not have the time. Lesson learnt all of us have to restrict the portfolio size that we bring for display and let others display. This seems to be a good way to share the skills like the rule of thirds which manoharan taught all of us.it was fun this time all of us becoming directors and the model with the kurun thadi was a real model :-)) From next time around we will have targetted portfolio displays and lessons from one of the experienced photographers.....

CPC will start a "photo of the month". The methodology to be followed

Choose a maximum of 3 best photos (edited/non-edited/cropped/saturated , etc acceptable)
naming convention to be followed - name of member followed by caption and date uploaded
file size to be resticted to 0.5 MB for each of your photos
Go to yahoogroups chennaifoto site
select photos option on your left pane and then get into the folder - photo of the month - sep 07
upload your photos
wait for the results to be announced in the next monthly meet (am sure you guys now know when and where)

Sep photoshoot date has been finalised - 23-Sep-07, venue to be decided.

Call for Meeting on 2-Sep 07

A Meeting is scheduled on Sunday 2-Sep between 8.30 -10 AM at woodlands drive-inMeeting

Agenda

Discussion on the Photos brought in by Members - Those who have digital photos can either mail them to me in advance (by 31-Aug friday 4PM latest) or bring them accross on a data stick/harddrive as i will be carrying my laptop. No links for me to download please
Discussion on Photography as an art - Usage of digital editing tools

Tips to avoid theft online (photo copyright theft)

Discuss and finalise location and date for Photoshoot

Please confirm participation at the earliest either as a reply to this mail or by sms on my mobile. Those who have confirmed are requested to be ontime to enable start and end the meeting on time (to utilise whatever is left of the sunday :-)) )

Meeting Coordinator

Kaushik Krishnan
+91 98414 10250

First Formal Meeting

The first formal meeting of the Club was held as planned on the 17th Sep 2006 between 10-11 AM at the Woodlands Drive-in restaurant, Cathedral Road, Chennai

The following were discussed (all points to be refined further and put in legal words later)

Discussion and formal announcement on the club activities in the memorandum

• Promote photography among the residents of India in general and Chennai in Particular
• The association will be not for profit

The expectations on the activities were as follows

• Hold regular meetings for discussion of technical matters relating to photography
• Mentoring of members (beginners) by the more experienced members in the group
• Competitions among the members on a regular basis
• Website and space for individual photos (like BPC)

Formal registration and recognition of members

• Different types of membership are required like Life membership/Annual membership/Student Membership (annual)
• The draft fees would be 1000/200/100 apart from the registration fee of 100-150 to meet the expenses relating to issue of card,etc. The fees will be accepted in cash/cheque and transfer(to be decided based on feasibility)
• The membership would be granted based on a personal interview by the member/office bearer appointed for the same

Discussion on the benefits for Members

• The benefits under each category of membership to be decided based on costs

The in the CPC yahoo group would be adopted.

Executive council members would be allocated responsibility based on the interests and the ability/contacts. The following positions are open

• Promotion/publicity
• Membership Development
• Wildlife/ Nature photography
• Lanscape and ArchitecturePhotography
• Candid/People Photography
• Website Development and Maintainance
• Other area not yet defined

Attendees

Anand V R

Harihara Subramaniam

Deepak Gupta

Venugopal Balakrishnan

Arvind

Ranjit

KaushikKrishnan

Next meeting to be held after the legal papers are prepared for registration of the society based on the above points.

Welcome to CPC

"Chennai Photography Club" is a society that promotes the interest on Photography among youth. This Forum/Group/Club/Society is for any photography enthusiastic. Never mind if you don't have a Digital SLR or Manual SLR too...

CPC is for everyone who loves the art. CPC invites all intrested in photographyto come and join with us. Let us make our journey on photography a desirable one."Chennai Photography Club" or "CPC" is in it's 'new-born' stage,recently started by a few photographers of Tamilnadu,and we welcome everybody to join us and have fun with photography. Although CPC is young,it has plans of doing everything to make it a successful venture.

The club is active and recently organised a trip to the Belum Caves in Andra Pradesh

Yahoo Groups Page : http://in.groups.yahoo.com/group/chennaifoto/