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The Results are in... 

Congrats to all who entered our End of Year awards: our images of the year, our aggregate winners, and to those who have been promoted from Grade B to Grade A, you have all produced exceptional work throughout 2019 and we look forward to seeing so much more in 2020.

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Time Lapse Photography

By James Troi - 27th November, 2019 filed in Meeting Notes

A few notes from last night's meeting on Time Lapse Photography.

Time lapse photography is a way of compressing time. The amount of compression depends largely on the interval between images and in moving time lapse videos, the frame rate we choose to present the images.

Time lapse is largely used to show changes and movement over time. We might find it used for the following:

• Capturing landscapes/cloudscapes
• The growth of plants and opening of flowers
• Progression of construction projects (massive buildings or Lego builds)
• Movement studies and animal behaviour
• Astrophotography
• As cinematic b-roll, extra footage that may appear between shots to imply the passage of time between scenes or to compress a series of events

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Paper Bag Challenge - 2019 Edition

By James Troi - 14th November, 2019 filed in Meeting Notes

Our Tuesday night meeting welcomed the annual Paper Bag Challenge. A night where members are presented with a mystery item and are asked to create an image with that item. Over the years members have become wise to the madness and bring along props that may or may not work with the mystery item. It's a great night that tests our abilities to think on the spot and make images with the presented item, props brought in, and found items and locations around us.

This year, it was all about the PEG.

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Lighting 101

By James Troi - 13th November, 2019 filed in How To

Most have probably already heard of SLR Lounge, they offer a great range of tutorials and editorial for photography.

I recently came across two of their videos from the Lighting 101 course that I think would be extremely valuable to our members, and may be an enticement to take a look at their full course.

These are simple set-ups that will cost you a lot less than getting fancy studio lighting. You can get reflectors pretty cheaply on AliExpress or Ebay. Search for "Collapsable Reflector". Just note that they can both have long lead times on delivery, sometimes up to 60-days so order early! If you're working alone, you may also want to grab a few reflector holders too.

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