Month: October 2019

Meeting Highlights – Brunch & Cameras Oct 2019

Greeting Fellow Shutterbugs – Had a great meeting Saturday at K&Js!

Contest winners – we had ten entries in the Motion Photo Contest.  Congratulations to our 1st and 2nd place Winners:

1st Place Chris Stratton:

2nd Place Tie   Tami Reece and Fran Pastore

All entries are available for viewing at the meet up link:

https://www.meetup.com/fortmyersshutterbugs/photos/30425471/485616178/#485616178

We had a blast at our September Meet Up – Everglades Wonder Gardens! Thank you Chris for the great video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd67y3qgsck

See all the photos from the Meet Up here:  https://www.meetup.com/fortmyersshutterbugs/photos/30353609/

Upcoming Meet Ups October

October 5th Scott Kelby Photo Walk – Downtown Fort Myers

October 8th Video Bugs Meet Up 5PM Lakes Regional Park

October 12th – Marie Selby Botanical Gardens

October 19th – ON1 Training Fort Myers Library Downtown

October 20th – Everglades Wonder Gardens  Redo!

Oct 27th Photo Contest entries due by 9PM via email swflshutterbugs@gmail.com – Portraits

November:

2nd Brunch & Cameras

3rd Florida Intl Air Show Punta Gorda

9th Babcock Ranch Eco Tour

12th Video Bugs

13th Dinner & A Print

16th Chalk Festival Venice FL

23rd ON1 Session 3

30th Photo Contest Due –Black & White

Good Bye – Richard Evans – Thank you Richard for sharing your  presentation on your Photography Journey!  And thank you for your kind words regarding your positive experience with our SWFL Shutterbugs Community.  We are sad that you have to leave us, however, we wish you the best for your move to Fayetteville, North Carolina

November Photo Contest:  Portraits

A good portrait photo projects emotions that draw in viewers. The key to capturing an outstanding portrait is to focus on your subject. The image should reflect the subject’s personality, style and interests.  Remember the portrait has to be of a person or people!

Photo Contest Aids:

On Line Web Link:

https://photography.lovetoknow.com/How_to_Take_a_Good_Photo_Portrait

You Tube Video:

Our next Brunch and Cameras Meeting is Saturday, November 2nd 2019 at 10AM at K&Js

Best Regards and Happy Shooting,

Your Organizer Team

Linda, Deb, Sam, Doug Chris and John

https://www.meetup.com/fortmyersshutterbugs/

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Videobugs – Lakes Park

#3 Parking Lot

Tuesday 8 October 2019

1. Camera options
   1. 1080 @ 24fps (60/120 or higher for slow motion)
   2. Auto White balance is okay
   3. ISO – as low as possible
   4. In a perfect world, shutter speed number should be twice fps
   5. Manual exposure has its place, say when walking in a room past a bright window
2. Stabilize the camera
   1. Hand held – quick review of techniques
   2. Tripod – ideally with ‘fluid head’
   3. Gimbal (3 axis )
   4. In body image or in lens stabilization is great to have
3. Shooting
   1. Change camera angles SLOOOWLY, moving in one direction, not back and forth
   2. Get one of each, if possible
      1. Wide – establishing (where are we)
      2. Medium – who or what is the subject
      3. Close – fill the screen with the action
      4. Extreme closeup – lets see the dots in the “i”’s
   3. Consider transitions
      1. Person or thing leaves the scene
      2. Thing moves behind something big in the foreground
      3. Pull up from looking down at ground
      4. Traveling into, out of small openings
   4. Perspectives
      1. Shoot living things at eye level, example “worms eye view”
      2. 3rd person and point of view
4. Possible subjects
   1. Fountains shooting water up (play area)
   2. Peoples faces and activities
   3. Trains/peddle boats/etc
   4. Flowers
   5. Alligators?