Boone County Photography Club

Our next meeting is this Wednesday, 7/8/09, at 7:00 p.m. in the conference room of the Baltic Mill in Belvidere Park.

We will have a presentation on Light by John Keller who teaches “Creative Photography (Film & Digital)” at Rock Valley College.

There is no photography display theme for this meeting, if you want to display or discuss any of your photographs the field is wide open. Bring something you like, or something you are having difficulty with and want some input.

Jerome

How do you know when you are starting to “GET IT”?

While reading a blog post from one of my favorite pro photographers, Scott Bourne, I must completely agree with what he has to say. Especially after returning from a trip to Salt Lake City and the Wasatch mountains. Here is an excerpt and a link to the entire post…

In the latest Batman movie, there’s a line by the Joker – “I don’t have a plan – I’m just like a dog that spends all day chasing cars.”

Man this hit me right between the eyes. It describes the difference between how I shot as a rank amateur and how I shoot as a pro. When I first started in photography, I never had a plan. I’d just point my camera at anything I passed by. I lacked focus. I wasted a bunch of time. I’d get lucky once in a while, but if I were really honest, I wouldn’t be able to tell you why some photos worked and some didn’t. I was like a dog who spent his days chasing cars. I wasn’t even sure what I’d do if I caught one.

To read the rest of Scott’s article jump here

Jeff

To have a periodic photography assignment? In order to improve our photography we need to shoot. I am sure this is simply overstating the obvious to all, but then again… sometimes we need a task to help give us some modivation. Knowing and doing are often very different and for me to break up my weekday routine would be fun.

So stealing the idea from the Strobist and still giving him full credit I would like to suggest that we give our club memeber an assignment. It will be up to the club officers and the sterring committee to determine exactly what it should consist of, but read Mr. Hobby’s post about this sort of thing here and his first assignment here and let me know your thoughts.

Feel free to add a comment or email the group.

Peace

Jeff