Meeting Notes 10-1

Terry Johnston spoke to us last Thursday about being the Grand Rapids area photographer. He made a lot of great points, and we loved having him. Connect to him and join the Grand Rapids flickr group.

Afterwards, we attempted our Night Time Photo Shoot. We got rained on after about a half hour, but we are trying again after this week’s meeting, so come again!! Be sure to bring:

• Camera
• Tripod
• Flashlights, Laser Pointers, Sparklers, Glow Sticks, and/or anything else that can make light trails.
• Warm coat or jacket!
• Umbrella? Just in case…

Frederick Meijer Gardens

Saturday a few of us went on a spontaneous trip to Frederick Meijer Garden’s butterfly greenhouse and sculpture walk. It was a gorgeous day out with beautiful weather and lighting. All of us came back with some wonderful shots.

Mike and Dan

Katie

Dan’s Photos

Ellen’s Photos

Katie’s Photos

Mike’s

Winter Photo Shoot!

There were four of us crazy enough to go out in the cold, wind, and snow for the first ever photo shoot with the GVSU Photography Club this Saturday. It was very fun and we got a lot of great shots. See for yourself on our flickr pages:

• Katie’s Set
• Hannah’s Set
• Eric’s Set
• Ellen’s Set

Don’t forget leave us comments and check out our Photo Club flickr page!

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.

New Advisor and our flickr page!

Meet our new advisor, Christopher Kierkus!

Currently he teaches courses at GVSU in the criminal justice field for both undergraduate and graduate levels. But he says his major hobby is photography and he is a very active member on the popular photography site, flickr. Find his flickr profile here.

Also, if you don’t have a flickr account, its free to join. Once you do that, we have a group flickr page you can join and use to add your images. Flickr is a great site to share images and I have a feeling it will really help us in sharing photos and having discussions.

Feel free to add me as a contact! See you at our first meeting!