Meetings, Plans, and Photo Ideas

It's been almost two weeks since our first meeting of the season. This Wednesday is our next meeting at 7:00 pm at the library. Well, we will only stay at the library for a little bit. The group decided that we should head out on the town (Sycamore) and have a little photo challenge. The challenge theme will be determined right before we head out. Everyone is to bring one theme idea to write down and put in the jar. We will pull the out one of the sheets and use that for our outing. (This is a little like the one hour photo challenge that they have at Sandwich Fair). While you are thinking up ideas, think about downtown Sycamore and the possibilities of shooting in that area. Once we have chosen our theme we will head out for an hour or so of shooting (Bring your camera, tripod, flash, colored lights, jackets, bubbles, friends,whatever you want to make for a fun evening on the town.) We will meet up at P.J's after we are done shooting, between 8:30 and 9:00 pm. At our next meeting, we will share our two favorite images (you can edit them), and then have a vote for the top photo of the night. The winner will win a $5.00 gift card to Subway (Prize donated).

At our first meeting, we also decided that we would pair up again to teach each other new stuff. The group wants to meet twice a month. We need to get people to take on the upcoming months. October will be here before we know it. John Dickinson, we are hoping you will bring back the water drops so everyone can try again or try for the first time. There has also been a request for a "Share your favorite Lightroom technique" night. If people don't sign up for a month (One week show and tell, the other an activity or program), we will spend a lot of time at the show and tell meetings figuring out what to do each month. Finally, the group wants to re institute the monthly photo assignment. We will have a jar for that as well.

Another nice opportunity for some Full Moon Photography. September 8th and 9th the moon will be full with good sunrise and set time. The moon will set at 5:59 am on September 8th with a 6:32 am sunrise. The moon rises again at 6:52 pm with a sunset at 7:12 pm. On the 9th the moon sets at 7:03 am and the sun rises at 6:24 am. The moon rises at 7:29 pm with a sun set at 7:09 pm. The value to these times has to do with the light in the sky. The landscape will still have light on it from the sun light and the moon will not appear so overly bright requiring that you adjust for one the moon light or the landscape light. When all else fails, you can create some overlays using your software, but it's always fun to get the best possible image SOOC (Straight out of camera) .

We had a great first show-and-tell. It was fun to see everyone's work again.

I would post other people's work, but I'm at home and their stuff is on the computer at the library. IN the future, if you all approve, I will borrow a few to post on the blog at then end of our meeting.

See you all Wednesday at 7:00 pm.