Photography and more
Events
Digital Photography Basics Workshop – September 18 at SMU
Aug 29th
Every year in September I organize a workshop for the Photo Guild called Digital Photography Basics. The hot topic this year is HD Video and most new dSLR cameras will feature HD video. The last episode of “House” this spring was shot using a Canon 5D MkII dSLR. This offers new creative opportunities for photographers and new skills to learn.
We will be featuring a presentations in the morning on High Definition Video as well as Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. In the afternoon we take everyone out in the field to practice the new skills they learned in the morning. I’ll be leading a group in the afternoon. We will be learning how to use the basics like aperture, shutter speed and focal length creatively. Other groups in the another will be working with video, macro photography and other skills.
Registration starts at 8:30 am, Saturday, September 18. The morning seminars are at Burke Auditorium at Saint Mary’s University. Everyone is welcome and admission is $40 for a full day of workshops.
Check the Photo Guild website for updated info as more details are announced.
DND Family Days June 25, 2010
Jun 9th
As you know I work for Xerox and every year we sponsor DND Family Days to support our troops. Last we did family portraits for 4300 people in two days and we will be doing portraits again this year although it is only a one day event. I expect it will be very busy so come early if you are planning to get your portraits done. Portraits are free to members of the Canadian Armed Forces and their families.
Digital Photo Basics Workshop
Aug 25th
Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia will be presenting a Digital Photo Basics Workshop on Saturday, September 19 in the Burke Auditorium at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax. I’m the organizer for this event and I will be hosting one of the field sessions in the afternoon. The topic for my session is “How to Use Off-Camera Flash”.
You can find out more about this event at www.photoguild.ns.ca.
Upcoming Seminars
Jun 11th
Every year I host several seminars on various topics. This is list of upcoming seminars I will be doing. It will be updated as the details are worked out for each seminar.
Colour Theory and Management At Xerox Canada
8:30 am July 14, 2009 at 237 Brownlow Ave, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
I am a colour consultant at Xerox and we offer seminars on colour management and workflow to our customers every year. This seminar is designed for professionals in graphics arts. The intended audience is prepress and production people who need to know how to setup colour management workflows and solve colour problems. You can contact me at peter.steeper@xerox.com for a complete curriculum. This full day seminar is $395 per person and group discounts are available.
X-Rite I1 Pro and ColorChecker
How to Photograph Flowers
Saturday July 4th, 2009
Daylily Daze
Hammonds Plains Baptist Church, 1839 Hammonds Plains Rd.
9:30 to 3:00 pm
Seminar is from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Mardi Gras Parade (Pink Daylily for Photographers)
My wife belongs to several garden clubs and I usually give several seminars every year on this topic. My presentation will be one hour in length sometime during Daylily Daze hosted by the Nova Scotia Daylily Society on July 4th. I’ll update the start time when I know.
I will be doing a live demonstration of how to get the best results with your flowers. It is suitable for both point & shoot and dSLR camera users. I’ll have a few tips for photographers on how to preserve their marriage by not damaging designer daylilies. (I didn’t know they were that expensive!)
Digital Photography Basics
September 2009 - More info to come
This seminar is hosted by the Photographic Guild of Nova Scotia. This was very successful last year. It will include theory and practical hands on. Watch for more details.
Printing for Photographers
April 2010
Hosted by Truro Image Makers Photo Club
This seminar is how to turn your images into a high quality print on your inkjet and other types of printers. I’ve been very succesful in print competitions for photographers and printing is what I do at Xerox. More information will be posted before the event.
Tour de Bloc
May 19th
We have just returned from the Tour de Bloc where Ian was competing in the Men’s Open at the national bouldering competitions. He did very well and placed 11th in Men’s Elite and 36th in the Men’s Open. This was his second time at the nationals and we expect he will be competing in the nationals again next year. His friend and mentor, John Bowles, placed first and will competing in the Bouldering World Championship in China this year. I have posted lots of pictures of the event at Flickr. The event was held at Allez Up in Montreal which is an excellent climbing gym with 48 foot walls and a bouldering area.
Martock Slush Cup 2009
Mar 29th
Wow what a day! The weather was gorgeous on Saturday and there was big crowd for the Slush Cup. It was planned for Sunday but Martock changed the day to Saturday as the weather forecast for Sunday was doubtful. Ian was planning to participate but he had to work on Saturday. I was invited by Dave Savoie of the Ski Patrol and the management at Martock so I had great unobstructed access inside the fence. Of course I was close enough to get wet but I managed to keep the camera dry.
This was my first major event with my new Canon 50D and it worked very well with my 70-200 L lens. You can see all the photos at my photostream on Flickr.
If you want to buy a print of any image you can contact me at pbase@petersteeper.ca. Print sizes are 5×7, 8×10 and some of the images (depending on the amount of cropping) can be printed at 11×14.
