25 Aug - Club Meeting

 

My Mark 1 studio, I will show you the Mark 2

Our next club meeting will be in the village hall on Thursday 25 August from 1000 - 1200.  Please let me know whether or not you can attend.

I hope to make this a practical session and also redress the balance a little away from mobile devices by adding in an element of interest to the traditional camera users amongst us alongside our usual phone/tablet content.  I intend setting up a couple of stands for us to circulate around.  In outline:

Meeting Agenda

I intend splitting the group into 2 moving between "4 stands"

Practical Sessions

• Table top studio - small item/still life
• Head and shoulder studio shoot (budget version)
• Introduce basic 3 light set up (blog post to follow)

Teaching Sessions

• Basic image editing
• Using Google Photos on iPad and PC
• Please do your best to access Google photos beforehand so you are ready on the day.  See the advice on the WG Photoclub blog site to help or meet me in the Greenhouse during the week so I can help.
• Using focus modes 
• DSLR/Bridge cameras
• Our lenses are probably all AutoFocus with a manual option but what does that mean?   Our cameras have several ways of providing that autofocus and there is no standard naming/labelling, for example:
• On Canon - we have an option of
• One Shot AF
• AI Servo AF, or
• AI Focus AF
• On Nikon
• AF - S
• AF-F
• AF-A
• AF-F
• On Olympus
• Continuous AutoFocus
• Single AutoFocus
• Manual Focus

What to Bring With You (If possible)

As much as possible, everything you may need to take pictures and help improvise an indoor studio.

• Cameras (mobile devices and/or cameras)
• Flash/Speedlight
• Laptop and connectors - so we can see images, (particularly if you have the capability to tether your camera to the computer.)
• Tripods/stands, clamps and clips (clothes pegs)
• Any bright light sources you might have 
• torches (particularly LED)
• portable flood lights (I wish)
• Home made diffusers - e.g. net curtain, shower curtain, baking parchment on a frame.
• Home made reflectors, e.g. aluminium foil wrapped around a table mat.

I will try and bring as much of my kit as I can but please try and help if you have anything that might help with the background floor or sides of our table top studio.