Denver’s own Photo Martini Club http://www.photomartiniclub.com is a great way to meet people, while at the same time showing off your best work. Here’s how it works :
every two months or so a theme is selected, which becomes your “assignment” should you decide to take it on
if you’re interested in submitting work to the theme, get out and start shooting
get your best shots together, frame them and get them ready to present
pay $25 to enter the show which is usually held at a different Denver gallery, restaurant or other chic space each show
show up with your work, enjoy a martini and get ready to sell your best!
The club also has a print magazine called Shot! magazine which for an addition $75 you can have your photos published into after the gallery showing.
Wireless what? That’s right, wireless memory cards. A company in California will be the first to introduce wireless digital photography to the masses with their now available product called the “Eye-fi” card. It’s basically a 2GB SD card with a twist : it doubles up as a wireless transmitter to send your precious memories to your computer which can then be shipped to your favorite online site ( Snapfish, Walmart, Flickr, Shutterfly, among many others ).
Learn more directly from their website : http://eye.fi.
This video will go over the basics of adding a photo to your account, signing up for the TKSeminars Flickr Group and putting a photo into the group photo pool.
This screencast goes through the basics of Flickr.com including signing up for an account. If you already have a Yahoo! or Flickr.com account you can skip this and go to part 2.
For those of you wanting to connect and share with the ‘Migrating to Digital’ alumni, we have created a a Flickr.com group for you to join. This is by invitation only, so if you’re interested, send us an email and we’ll add you to the group.
This could be a great way to share photos among your peers and of course join in the broader fun at Flickr.
Come on by and see what all the brouhaha is about.
In class we’re always talking about finding the light, looking for an interesting shot and just shooting it. I was digging through some shots from my point and shoot from back in February and found this gem, I had nearly forgotten about. I was at Union Station waiting for a bus, and saw this guy standing against a pole waiting for the bus as well. The lighting and timing was perfect – it was near dusk, so the cobalt blue skies of Colorado were transforming to a midnight blue just before nightfall. I remember thinking when I took the first shot, “aw, this will just be a blurry image and not worth much”. Then I found a ledge, shot a few more shots, then decided to drag the shutter way down ( like 8 seconds ), and push the ISO to 100 to avoid noise. At just the right moment, a man walked across the road and I captured this interesting “snapshot” which has now made it to one of my favs for February with my Canon A700.
The point? Be adventurous, take the shot, take it again and again. Sometimes it won’t feel right, but then shoot again until it does. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t but you have to get used to just shooting it and dealing with the consequences … in this case a rather favorable one, IMHO.
I’m not quite sure where all the time went, but May is National Photo Month. There are a number of sites out there promoting it, and providing tips as well for taking great photos this Spring and Summer. With the amount of snow and rain we’ve had down here on the Front Range, the wildflowers are going to be excellent – and in some places they’ve already started coming out in glorious color.
So what are you waiting for? Get out there and start shooting!
