I know this happened over a month ago. I’m a slacker; sue me! Just kidding, please don’t. Anyway, I wanted to talk about the last SWMO Strobist meetup and talk about some of my plans for the next meetup.
We had our 2nd meetup on March 6, 2010 at the same studio we had the first meetup at. It was a little chilly, but with a few heaters we made it pretty comfortable and were able to have a good time. There were a lot of familiar faces there along with several new faces. Word spread to the Southwest Missouri Camera Club so we had several of there members attend as well. It was good to see the different groups working together and just having fun doing what they love: taking great pictures.
Speaking of the Southwest Missouri Camera Club, I am giving a presentation in June (June 10, 2010 to be exact, watch for details here) on lighting and off-camera flash, which should be pretty cool, assuming I can put a coherent presentation together. Wish me luck! That following weekend we are doing a field trip downtown to (hopefully) reinforce the concepts I present at the meeting. Should be exciting. I need to start putting that presentation together…
Anyway, I digress. That’s in the future and I need to finish talking about this meetup. Again, with such an awesome studio everyone was able to try many different things and get many different looks. Here is a slideshow of shots from everyone that posted to Flickr and tagged them correctly:
You can see some more of my shots from the meetup in there as well, but I wanted to go ahead and post a couple more of my favorites here:
That’s probably enough for this post. But I got several shots I really enjoyed and one that made it into my print portfolio, which is cool. All in all I’d say it was another successful meetup.
Unfortunately I think this will be the last meetup we have at this studio. I talked with David recently and he has decided to leave the studio for something different, something safer. But with every end there is a new beginning so let me briefly talk about what I want to do for the next meetup.
I’ve seen several groups do a type of Strobist scavenger hunt, so I want to do something similar. We would divide up into small teams, maybe 4-5 teams of around 5 people and we would have 1 model for every group. I would have each model placed in a specific location around the same area, within walking distance of each other, each with an assignment sheet. The groups would have no idea what each assignment sheet says, so when they get there they would have to read it, come up with a concept, and execute it as group within a limited time window, say 30 minutes per model. Then by the end of the day each shooter would have shot 5 different models and each model should have a distinct set of shots from each group. Should be fun if I can get all of the details ironed out.
I think that’s going to do it for this post. I’ve got several shots to edit from some recent shoots, plus my Chicago vacation. Hopefully I’ll get around to doing blog posts for those as well. I’ve also got some emails to write, shoots to plan, plus there’s that sleep thing that everyone tells me is so wonderful. Maybe I’ll give that a try…