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Meeting Minutes 10-22

Campus Events = Photography Opportunities

If you are interested in event photography please check out our shiny new Events page here on the Photo Club blog! Some requests:

Criminal Justice department:

The criminal justice department needs help. You can go and take pictures with at risk children to give them a creative outlet for an outreach group called PALS. Or, if you’d rather, they also need photo editors. Anyone who knows their way around a stamp tool, come on and give them a hand!

Getting the word out!

We are going to start advertising ourselves out to the campus groups. We want to take pictures of any group, event, or club and give them the amazing photos that we come up with as a way of advertising to them.

Go to your other, inferior clubs that you barely attend and ask them if you can photograph them. Go to a soccer game, ultimate Frisbee match or even a Quidditch tournament (yes, GVSU has Quidditch. Heads up!) Once you have handed over your brilliant photos, the clubs will see how cool it is to have someone record their group’s activities for free.

Let’s do it!

Ready…break!

Area51 Show:

The pictures are flooding into Ellen’s account, so fast that…she…doesn’t… check for them anymore. She’s got none so far…

8 photos is the number of prints that are going to be made and put on display, but we are also going to have the projector possibly running, which will show at least one of your photos. So far we have zero photos to choose from. At this rate, you have a pretty good chance of getting a 16×20″ inch print of your photo!

Start submitting anything (though we prefer GVSU or Photo Club related pics) to lundgree@mail.gvsu.edu!

The Actual Meeting Minutes:

Possible meeting time changes:

Some of the most popular times were – Thursday’s from 4-5pm, 5-6pm, and 7-8pm.

Keep checking the website and vote here for your favorite if you haven’t already done so.

Wedding photos:

Dan and Ellen showed their wedding photos and gave some tips on how to take them.

Tips:

  • Remember to plan ahead if you are going to take wedding photos. You only get one shot.
  • Take photos of key items of the wedding. Ex. Rings, bride and groom (duh), wedding cake, family and friends, reception events….
  • Don’t forget lighting. Weddings are generally events that spill over into the night. Make sure you bring the proper lens (if you have an SLR) and/or flash.
  • And of course, don’t forget to try the food. It’s free!

Flickr photo’s of the week:

We reviewed this weeks flickr photos and were satisfied with some, impressed with others, and disappointed in a couple (mine ). Come on guys! Keep them coming, they’re looking great!

And, that’s it so far. We’ve a ton of other cool stuff going on, but I’m not going to tell you what it is. Come and find out for yourself!

Second Meeting Notes 1-28

This week we went through a lot of websites and talked about some of our favorite photographers too.

Flickr stuff:

  • Please only post 5 photos a week on the club’s flickr group
  • Active Assignment Weekly was an interesting flickr group that was brought up so check it out
  • Someone brought up a guy with great pictures on flickr – BURИBLUE
  • Flickr has a video section!
  • If you want to learn more about a picture on flickr, just scroll down and on the right column there be  “More Properties.” Click on that and you can see more detailed info about the photograph’s properties.

Other Websites:

  • Moo.com if you haven’t already checked it out.
  • We were thinking that once we get funding that we could advertise for the club on the mini moo cards
  • Dpreview.com is a great site – it has a compare feature and a buying guide. You can’t buy from the site, but it generally will give you a link to somewhere you can.
  • Diyphotography.net has links and creative ideas for a bunch of things

Photo Shoot ideas:

  • light painting – (see BURИBLUE’s flickr)
  • star photography
  • taking photos downtown
  • maybe a winter shoot if you guys are willing to be really cold

This is still in the works, but we were thinking of having a contest to see who can take the best picture of lightning. No past pictures. There will be a small prize of some sort, but this contest is more for the challenge. If you have a better idea for a contest let us know and we will consider it.