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…
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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.
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