"Out of Element"

Out of Element

Out of Element

28mm, 1/30" at f/8.0 on ISO 400

35mm, 1/800" at f/11 on ISO 400

Potential Shirt Design #2

Another entry in our shirt design contest. A simple white-on-dark-blue T-shirt featuring an assembly drawing of a camera. I found the picture online, but detailed the drawing myself. Click the image link below for a full detail.

Yes, I came up with all the part labels myself. Teen Angst isn't normally included in traditional camera assembly.

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c214/Angelico_T/DesignColor.jpg
EDIT: Blogger is being an asshat at the moment, and so I'm putting a link to the graphic detail, instead of having a nifty picture to click on. Argh.

Potential Shirt Design #1

A cut-away diagram of a Canon EF 24-105/4L IS USM Lens labled with parts of the human eye. The text undernearth is optional... I could be convinced to remove it and just have the image with the labels. (Click on the image to see the full design)

"Out of Element"

First Meeting this Thursday! -- Addendum

Just a quick addendum to Grummer's last post: A more accurate picture of second floor Hunsaker. For those of you who don't know how to get there, just go up the stairs (or the elevator) and you'll be there. Easy.

First Meeting this Thursday!

We're having our first meeting this Thursday, September 4th at 4:30 PM on the second floor of the Hunsaker building. I wanted to attach a photo of the building for any new students who aren't sure where it is, but upon searching through my library of thousands of photos I have taken of the campus, I realized it is one of the few buildings I haven't photographed-- because it's just ugly. Maybe that will be one of our photo themes: to make ugly things look good. Meanwhile, you will have to figure it out from this ambiguous photo I took of the walkway when it snowed two years ago.

You may want to bring a pen but you don't need to bring your camera unless you're like me and just can't go anywhere without it. If you can't make it to the meeting be sure to e-mail me if you're still interested in joining the club because I will be deleting everyone from the roster who doesn't show up! See you Thursday!

Welcome back, let's do this.

I want to outperform the University of Redlands. My goal this year is to have everyone in the club learn more in the club than they would in Photography classes. Why? Well if you're like me, you don't have time for the classes in your schedule, and they're nearly impossible to get in anyway.Ryan Scott, downtown Seattle, 26mm at 1/250" f/8.0 on ISO 400. I took this photo last night while I was in town and I wanted to make it the first photo I shared with you all this year, since I think it captures a lot of what I want to do this year. It's got all the basics: it's in focus, it's properly exposed, etc. I took it without using any automatic functions: focus, flash, exposure, all manually set to get exactly what I wanted. We will spend some time on these fundamental skills, but you're not going to make the cover of Sports Illustrated with a sitting model and an on-camera flash. I had my subject crouch down rather than sit up straight, I composed it so he is slightly off center, rather than perfectly centered in the middle of the frame, and if you look closely, yo will see that I rotated the camera to align with the vertical of his face, rather than the horizontal of the wall or sidewalk. The photo is essentially crooked, but this is the look I wanted here. The bottom line is, I would rather see creativity than perfection, regardless of what kind of camera you use, or what subjects you shoot.

Field trips, contests, and cold, hard, constructive criticism. You can't learn everything in a classroom, and I generally don't believe you will not improve if you're always told your work is amazing. For example, please do not hesitate to tell me the above photo is crap. If you think I should have centered it or kept it level, tell me!

We're going to try and do at least three major field trips each semester, into the city, into nature, and in between. We will discuss destinations at the meeting. As for contests, we will have a theme for each meeting and everyone will shoot for that theme between meetings. We will start each meeting by sharing our best three photos from the theme, and giving feedback.

Questions:

Do I need a camera?

Yes. I'm sorry but we don't have the budget yet to provide cameras, and I sold my extra SLR to buy a new strobe so everyone will need to have a camera this year, preferably digital but film works if you can keep up.

When will the club meet?

We will decide this at the first meeting, but it will probably be once a week in the evening (7 PM or so).

What's the deal with this blog?

We will use this blog to post photos and share experiences. You will all be given write-access once the semester begins.

What do I have to do to join?

E-mail me at alexander_grummer@redlands.edu and tell me you want to be added to the club list, so you will receive e-mails on when the first meeting will be, etc.

Please comment on this post with any other questions so everyone can see them as well.