It was a calm, clear and mild night that attracted a large number of members to Altona Beach for our light painting activity. I got to the beach around 7.15pm which I thought was early and walked to our usual spot only to find a huge line of tripods with hardly a spot left.
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It was expected to be a cold and wet night for our light painting photo shoot at Altona Beach. Many of us rugged up with thermals, beanies, warm jackets and gumboots ready for the big wet chill, but it didn’t happen. Hardly a breath of wind, not a drop of rain and you could almost call it a balmy night. So instead of freezing we got quite toasty.
Tonight we left the meeting room behind to head into the city for a bit of a night walk in the city.
We met up at Siddeley Street Car Park for the start of our adventure.
Our challenge master Karen presented those in the club rooms with a pairs of kitchen gloves and let them have at it.
Last night we were treated to a presentation by Dale Rogers of Photo Rangers on the topic of Intimate Landscapes.
The way Dale spoke of this practice as not just a photographic discipline but also as part of his mindfulness routine made me think I need to spend a bit more time doing it myself.
Greg Cromie was awesome, his work is quite the inspiration for us to plan our next trip as Greg himself is doing. Our current state of lockdown while the world battles the COVID-19 virus makes it seem like we may never travel again. And as Greg pointed out, in reality, it may well be a year or two at least before we see life return to any sort of pre-COVID normal.
Thanks to everyone who came to our meeting tonight, we had about 41 people at the peak.
Imran's talk was quite enjoyable as he regaled us with his adventures in photography.
At our meeting last night we were joined by Michael from Kayell who took us through the tech-strong topic of Colour Management, Colour Profiles, and the Printing Process.
Not being a big self-printer I took a lot away from Michael's talk and may just think more about printing my own images now. We probably should see it as part of our process in creating our works in camera, to computer, and then to final output on print media.
Apologies, the notes are a little all over the shop; but hopefully you'll understand what I'm saying.
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
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.
Upcoming
Workshop: Portraiture
A look at the upcoming portraiture course by our in-house portrait team. More details to come.
Entries due for competition 5: Landscape and Open
Walker Close Community Centre
13th August 2024 7:30 pm
Photo Shoot: You Yangs Visit
Let's take a short trip to the You Yangs Regional Park and capture an array of images: Landscapes, intimate landscapes, macro, etc
You Yangs Regional Park
18th August 2024 10:00 am