Shooting Meet

We should take some pictures sometime, dontchathink?

Who's up?

I love taking pictures!

I'd be up for it. Basically depends my dumb ass schedule, gotta love the shift work.

Pictures?

Maybe we should take advantage of the snow while it's still here.

There's an advantage snow??? Please, do tell.

I'm up for getting out. It's been spring-like lately.

So when is good for people. I pretty much make my own schedule so I can go with the flow.

Weekend? Early morning?

I'm nights from now until Friday. I believe I'm shooting the Surfers Sat night and semi busy Sunday so that leaves Monday open for me, I'd be cool for Monday during the day but I know that kills a lot of the 9-5ers if there are 9-5ers here.

I'm nights Wed/Thurs and also Sun/Mon/Tues. That pretty much leaves me with Saturday or Sunday morning. Hmmm.

I'd tag along if I'm available at the time you decide on - I don't have all those fancy lenses that you people talk about, but I am learning apertures, ISO's and shutter speeds, so I could practice before I go back to my photography class next Wednesday, and I have wheels if anyone needs a ride!!

I wouldn't mind joining but I don't think I'll have any free time until the Easter weekend.

Nana,

One doesn't need many fancy lenses. HCB used only three different 50mm lenses for the vast majority of his work from 1931 to when he passed away in 2004. He started with a Leica 50mm f/3.5 Elmar, then somehow acquired a rare Zeiss 50mm f/1.5 Sonnar in Leica Screw-mount during WWII, and finally a Leica 50mm f/2 Summicron in the early 1960's. Occasionally he used a 90mm lens for landscapes as he didn't like foreground and he used a used a 35mm wide-angle but just a few times. That's it. Being widely recognized as the greatest photographer in the world, he surely had access to any photography equipment available but he always resorted to a Leica body with a 50mm lens.

Aperture, shutter-speed and ISO is all you need to know. I've eliminated ISO by shooting 200 ISO (with 400 ISO film) almost all the time so all I need to worry about is aperture and shutter-speed. Then its just a matter of training the eye.

Thanks for the story, Nando, but I still think it's over my head!! Did anyone get out to shoot anything??

Yes, I'm also curious to know if the meeting took place.

Nana,
I don't teach photography but I have helped a number of people learn the basics of aperture, shutter-speed and ISO. In nearly all cases, I found that the terrible user interfaces of the modern cameras, that they used, made things much more difficult. All-manual cameras are much better suited for teaching these concepts. Manual cameras have four controls - ISO and Shutter-speed dials on the top and focus and aperture rings on the lens. That's it. A day experimenting with an all-manual camera is usually all that it takes to get the basics and then one can easily apply the new learning to modern cameras.

I don't think the meeting actually took place. I didn't participate it if it did

Nana try this link out: http://www.morguefile.com/archive/classroom.php

Go through the lessons, it'll explain each little bit in layman's terms, it helped me out a lot when I was starting out. I also find myself going back every so often just to refresh here and there.

I wasn't there! lol.

Nothing happened that I know of.

I wish I could drive and be not so busy lately! I would love to do a meet up and a shooting meet! Not enough time in a day!

Nando, I think once I get a chance to practice finding all the settings on my camera it will become easier, but the first response is to go to the automatic settings so I can see your point about learning on a manual first.
Cujo, I took a quick look at that website and I think it will be good to have it for reference in the future. Thanks for the info, Nando and Cujo. Looks like we're back to square one about getting out to get some shots and the weather isn't co-operating either - 10 cm of freezing rain and snow predicted.

Let's try something for either this Friday (3/21) or Monday (3/24), a lot of us should have at least one of those days off.

Nights Thurs/Fri this week so Friday is "yucky" for me. However off Monday again, I can swing something there.

Nana G2006 wrote:Nando, I think once I get a chance to practice finding all the settings on my camera it will become easier, but the first response is to go to the automatic settings so I can see your point about learning on a manual first.
Cujo, I took a quick look at that website and I think it will be good to have it for reference in the future. Thanks for the info, Nando and Cujo. Looks like we're back to square one about getting out to get some shots and the weather isn't co-operating either - 10 cm of freezing rain and snow predicted.

No problem. Not sure what type of camera you have but quickest way to learn how it functions is to take it off the "green box" mode (auto) and move it to one of the more manual modes. This doesn't mean straight jumping into M but try aperture priority (Av) or another one of the modes like that. Aperture priority will let you set your Aperture to what you like and the camera will adjust it's shutter speed to reflect available light etc -- this is mostly a guess on the camera's part (which is usually pretty good but you can see where going full manual will have it's advantages). In the other modes you can set the shutter speed and the camera will choose aperture etc etc. There's a number of different options based on your camera type/brand and all the other little things but generally speaking if using an SLR most should be the same -- as far as other cameras I don't have experience with them so I won't get into them. Just keep playing, see what the results are that you get in the different situations and after keeping track of things for a bit you'll start to learn what each setting provides as a result.

Work Friday/Saturday/Sunday night....but Monday (later in the day) would be okay. Hounds playoff game Monday night though....

I heard from a co-worker that Lake Superior is pretty fantastic looking from Pancake Bay to Montreal River.

How far is that?