Next meeting, the Las Vegas Strip…

Hey Everyone,
On Tuesday, October 13th we our planning our meeting around an outing to Freemont street. So everyone needs to bring their cameras and get ready to do some night shooting under the lights of old Vegas.

We need to know if you all want to take the church shuttle down or if we all want to drive individually. Let me know ahead of time if possible. You can email or leave a comment below. We normally meet at 7pm, but I think we should meet at the church around 6pm to get a head start down there. Should be a good time and we can get a lot of good experience down there. Hope everyone can make it.

Thanks,
Shad

Water Drops…

Hey everyone, just wanted to post this photo from our last meeting with the water drops.

That was a fun experiment. Keep think of ideas we can try at our other meetings.

Thanks,
Shad

Next meeting July 14th…

Hey everyone,
Just a reminder that our next meeting is Tuesday July 14th at 7pm in the communications offices. Bring flash lights, and anything colorful you can shine a light through.

Thanks,
Shad

Photo walk on the Vegas Strip…

Hey everyone,
We are going to do our Vegas Strip photo walk  on Sunday, June 28th at 7:30pm. The weekend before is Father’s day and the weekend after is July 4th weekend. So this seems to be the best. I’m going to try and book the church van, so I’ll need to have you all RSVP by June 24 in the comments. We’ll head down to the new strip, probably around Ceasar’s or Belagio.

Thanks,
Shad

Edit :: Looks like we are going to have to cancell the outing, we only have one person going. Sorry everyone.

Next meeting on June 9th…

Hey everyone,
Our next meeting will be on June 9th at 7pm in the Communications office. Bring your cameras. We might just do some more experimenting with lights and such.

We will also be planning our walk on the strip.

Comment below if you think you can make it.

Shad

April Meeting Cancelled…

I dropped the ball.

Hey everyone,
I had a busy last week with Easter and forgot to send a reminder email about tonight’s meeting. That coupled with a few other issues has forced me to cancel for tonight.

My apologies.

However, in May we will be wrapping up our technical series. I want to do some exercises with our flashes and try some light painting. Should be a good time. Also, we need to start thinking of our next outing down on the strip. I’m going to try and post some inspirational shots of the strip over the next couple of weeks as I’ve seen some really nice art about that recently.

Hope everyone had a great Easter! Thanks,
Shad

Outing This Saturday

Hey everyone,
We will be going to Valley of Fire this Saturday, March 28. We’ll leave the church around 9am and try to get back around 3 or 3:30pm before the start of the 4pm service. It takes about 1 hour to get there, so we should have a good 4 to 5 hours at the park.

A couple of things to note ::
• We’ll be taking the church van which seats 9, if we have more we may need to ask around the group to see who can supply an extra vehicle.
• The cost for the trip is $6 for one vehicle admittance to the park, and $20 to fill the van back up with gas. So we need to divide this up amongst us that goes as our budget got zapped in the reductions. If someone needs to bring an extra vehicle we’ll work out compensation amongst the group for gas and park admittance.
• I’m going to bring my 3 and half year old. If you all want to bring an older child (one that can walk trails) that is fine. I’m going to pay for her in whatever the cost comes out to be. I’m going to try and help you all with any questions and guiding us through the park so I won’t be taking photos.
• Everyone needs to bring a lunch, I’m going to try and get a cooler with ice to put water bottles in. We can put other drinks in as well if you want to bring something. Also, bring any kind of sun protection, it may not be hot but you’ll get burned if you are standing out in the sun to long.
• Let me know by Thursday if you can come or not. I need a head count just for vehicles.

Comment below if you can come or email me at sfox@canyonridge.org

Thanks guys,
Shad

March meeting…

Hey everyone,
Just a reminder. Our next meeting is March 10 at 7pm in the Communications office. Sorry for not updating the blog in the last couple of weeks. I’m coming close to landing on an outing date. I’ll let you know about that before our meeting. Bring your cameras as we’ll be hitting up metering and what apeture, shutter, speed and ISO do. We’ll be taking test shots, and those of you who don’t have an SLR I’ll share the church camera with you. Should be fun.

Thanks,
Shad

February meeting…

We are meeting again on Tuesday, February 10. Like always we will start at 7pm in the communications office. If you have your camera bring it as we will be starting our technical series on photo fundamentals. I’ll make a small outline of our discussion for that night.

On a side note I have to apologize for not getting the outing going before this meeting. I have a date in mind now and I’m going to try and get it set. So look for a date on that soon.

Thanks,
Shad

Outing…

In our last meeting we talked about joining the Las Vegas photographers meet up group for our outing. They are going down on the strip this Sunday January 25. I personally can’t make this trip as I have a prior commitment. I would encourage any of you to go, they look like they may have about 30 people going so far.

I still want to do an outing as a group however, but my schedule of the next couple of weekends is occupied. I wouldn’t try to do anything next weekend as it is Super Bowl weekend. The next Sunday after (Feb won’t work for me either as I have a staff meeting at the church. I’ll set something up soon, but it will probably rest on a weekday instead of a weekend.

Thanks,
Shad