Artists' Guild Photography Section meeting minutes 2/21/2011

The photography section met on Monday night, February 21st.  Section Bi-laws were discussed, and inputs/comments on the draft requested.  The upcoming exhibit in the Members Gallery (April 8-May 6) was discussed including rules for entry, which will also be emailed to the section members.  Jim True was introduced as our section's representative on the exhibits committee and the functions of that committee were discussed.  An opportunity for an exhibit space outside the Guild building was brought up.  The section chairman will discuss this with  the Guild Chairman to clarify any guidelines relating to this sort of thing.  The new policy of the Guild to focus the upstairs on exhibits targeted at Grants & the downstairs on exhibit opportunities for members was mentioned and well received.   One new member paid for a family membership (Mac MacKay) and another said  he was sending in his membership next month.  

The business meeting was preceded by a well received talk, tour, and demonstration of the Guild's print making shop in the basement.  This was given by the Gallery/Education Director, Gina Alvarez.  

Dave Coblitz - Section Chair

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Fw: ArtistsGuild: Meeting Monday night - Feb 21

Artists Guild
Third Mondays Photography Section
7pm-9pm

Print Shop tour and demo - learn what's available beneath the Guild.

Lee's latest

Fellow Photogs,

I know I have not been present at the meetings lately, but I am still engaged in the passion of photography. Life can be awfully limiting sometimes. Nevertheless, here are some shots from our last snow storm, taken at Creve Coeur Park. As always, your feedback is welcome.

Cheers,

Lee

Night Photography

Here's something different to test your skills at capturing light - shoot in the dark. Not pitch black darkness of a sealed room. No light, no photography. What I'm talking about is night lights: Moon, stars, reflected lights from a distant.

http://gizmodo.com/5742383/175-photos-of-day-taken-at-night

Some really interesting effects, and only the stars to tell you that the images were at night, not midday. Just try and guess the proper exposure for these sorts of shots! The New Moon is this week on Feb 2, and the full moon is coming Feb 18. (Check out our 2011 Calendar, the link will always be there on the right)

Some folks take "moonbow" images at waterfalls, and perhaps the best know is at Cumberland Falls near Corbin, KY. And a wee bit of a drive from Saint Louis. But it is another example of photographers using extreme low lighting.

Fireworks might have exposure times of 1-4 seconds. City lights and taillights might go for several seconds. This one was 5 seconds:





But can you get your mind to wrap around an exposure lasting minutes?