Meetings: Mar 2020

Thursday, Mar 12, 2020, 7:30 p.m. - Guest presentation

Out West Photo Adventures (Audry van Aken and Rob Stratton)

The element that has drawn us together is the mutual love of road trips and capturing moments in time. We sat back one day and realized that people travel from all over the world to see what is in our own backyard (and throughout Alberta). We decided we’d like to concentrate on sharing our Alberta Heritage with like-minded photographers. Although we do teach workshops, our goal for 2020 is to create unique photographic opportunities in locations that people may not be able to access otherwise. We like to refer to these as “Photographic Adventures” as opposed to tours or workshops because we like to add local elements to expand the experience beyond photo images. Our new Out West Photo Adventure will give participants an opportunity to see amazing landscapes, waterfalls, wildflowers, various wildlife and the wild horses of the Alberta Foothills. We hope you’ll join us as we discuss our many years of adventures on back roads and mountain tops.

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Mountain View Photographer Services is the combined work of Audry van Aken (Dreamscapefotos and AvanAken Photography) and Rob Stratton (Rob Stratton Images). We both have a diversified interest in photography ranging from motorsports, oilfield, commercial/industrial, real estate, weddings and all aspects of equine photography with a combined 30+ years of experience exploring and taking photos.

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Member showcase: Planning Projects with Mood Boards (Heather Fryer)

Heather Fryer has been a photographer for over 15 years and using Photoshop for almost 5 years.

When Heather was young, she was influenced by her grandmother who was an artist and a painter. She taught her about shadow and light and the use of colour.

After raising a family Heather decided to try her hand at photography. She started out doing family portraits and eventually got into shooting a wide variety of subjects including cars and bikes.

Heather spent a few years shooting fashion and had a desire to bring her imagination to fruition through Photoshop. Heather is well known for coming up with unique ideas and perspectives. She has a love of old movies (film noir in particular) and old stories. She will see something and suddenly she will get an idea for a shoot. Her projects will often take months to develop using mood boards to define the details of the shoot. She is very particular about her choices of designers, models and hair and makeup artists.

After all the action of the shoot is over her editing process can sometimes take days or even weeks to get it exactly right.

Heather leans towards darker stories and imagery with a high contrast between dark and light, with vivid colours and crisp details. She has a unique style that is instantly recognizable. All of her work has a story to it, but everyone who views it has their own idea of what the story means to them.

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Thursday, Mar 26, 2020, 7:30 p.m. - competition night *Cancelled*

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