Toronto Photography Meetup Group

Had a great time thanks All! Too bad we could not break any of James' stuff.

Thanks J for organizing!

Thanks Justin for the logistical arrangement. Next time, you should get to shoot too!

Here's the group picture. No modelling lamp, so the focus was slightly off...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike-tan/3908307645/" title="The gang by mike.tan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2577/3908307645_0675a62a7b.jpg" width="500" height="301" alt="The gang"></a>

Thank goodness the focus is a little off

Had a blast tonight - pleasure meeting all of you .. many thanks to Justin for organizing this!!

Thanks Justin...it was surprisingly well organized event....Hat's off to you sir well done

yeah, a big thanks to Justin for organizing this event. it was great fun. now i'm going to get a wireless trigger and start playing with it.

no, Lubin

schedule another for when I can make it! And let's see some shots!

i will get the original to you as soon i get home tonight J

Hah J__ - there goes your online privacy - no longer the blurry guy holding the beer

at least it went with me holding something that had TPMG on it

and I did it with style... I was still wearing a tie

actually I'm curious now. Did you remember seeing the AF assist lamp come on? I think the DOF was not deep enough... Still not used to shooting at small apertures - too used to available light.

i can darken the right side a bit to create a similar effect to the beer ^^

I think the initiates (like me) should resist the temptation to spend too much money at the start. Just one light can already do wonders. See:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/sho ... p?t=412392

Next time we meet, I would like to shoot at a time/place with more ambient. Something like dusk, when the sky goes crazy with colour, like this:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike-tan/3701418363/" title="Big air! by mike.tan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2663/3701418363_d66c2702db.jpg" width="376" height="500" alt="Big air!"></a>

and then maybe move on to near a street location or some place with distant lights to get bokeh effects.

OK. who's organising a group buy for RF602 triggers?

I got a set of 2 receivers and 1 trigger already, why do you need a group buy? they're not that expensive

oh, by the way, you can also use them as wireless shutter release! cool, eh?

you're not interested in saving money? The multiple receiver packs are cheaper than buying a receiver on its own.

Other than that I can imagine people would want to buy light stands/umbrellas/softboxes/(and for the hard core ones) AB strobes and PLMs...

+1 Mike. You can do wonders with one light and a add a reflector for fill if need be. There is a Flickr group called One Strobe Pony that features shots with only one light.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/one_strobe_pony/

I wouldn't mind picking up a 2rx1tx to replace my other set...

if there are others, I can order from DX... i'd collect $ first though, and I won't charge the "Solid Gold" price

What is the model number? I order from DX quite a bit.

i would love to order the wireless trigger thingy and a diffuser for my 430ex and i can pay you up front. thanks

Count me in as well J & Mike

Thanks,
George

We'll start another thread in the Gears Section

You guys should buy sets from ebay. deal extreme only sells the 1 flash 1 trigger deals. Unless that is all you are after.

Justin, thanks for organizing the event

I'm slowly going through post processing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/seren_dipi ... 10700/show

Those are definitely looking good

SD, wanna put a watermark on it to call it yours? Are these the ones you want me to send to the models?

Hey Justin,

I typically don't put a watermark on my images. It's going to take me a while to go through all the images and I may even make changes to the ones I posted on flickr so I'll send you the ones for the models separately.

Thanks again for setting this up. Cheers. If you ever want to shoot together just give me a shout.

First time, but definitely loving the process and results.

The set:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike-tan/s ... 2668/show/

A picture:
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike-tan/3914559834/" title="Jenna on rock I by mike.tan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2567/3914559834_1a1386875d.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="Jenna on rock I"></a>

As always comments and criticisms welcome...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tauro220/3913851651/" title="Jenna_Fawcett_Pensive by dannyt., on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2574/3913851651_1b7bf7b25d.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Jenna_Fawcett_Pensive"></a>

i like the first one but the focus is off on her face

so everyone, make sure you get me some pics soon

the models are quite anxious to get some feedback and results. I already got 2 messages for some pics. One model just wanted to see 1 photo

what were they thinking, we shot with polaroids?

But seriously though, remind us again what you said - how many photos, what resolution, and which mailbox to bomb?