Toronto Photography Meetup Group

Canadian Tire has fold up camping chairs on sale this week for $8.99. Half price. Lovely camo pattern for the nature photographer. Most CT stores open at 9:00 AM on Sunday.

http://www.canadiantire.ca/AST/browse/5 ... BChair.jsp

Daryl

The weather report looks a little better this morning - variable cloudiness. The showers will only roll in around 2pm. See you there!!

Pebbz - I'm sure someone will be willing to share a printout with you at the event

...yeah, I so would not have been in any kind of shape to make it to this. have fun everyone!

Thanks to everyone who came out for this event - I had a great time.
Justin - thanks for organizing it.
James (Seren Dipity) - thanks for presenting the material - much appreciated.
Too bad the rain showed up 48 minutes ahead of schedule

Very informative guys and thanks to the organizer and James x 2 ...sorry I was late

yeah, it was very educational. thanks for a great session

Thanks Justin for organizing and dropping by. Thanks Jamesy for co-hosting. Thanks to all those who showed up. Sorry for the lecture .. I'm not the best public speaker I'll fully admit but hopefully you picked up a tip or two. Cheers!!

Oh, and thanks 2aspiration for the bottle of water

Thanks for setting this up and hosting guys!

It was great, I walked away with a lot more knowledge than when I first got there this morning.

Thank you Justin, Seren Dipity, and Jamesy for organizing the event..

Seren Dipity - I understand that your throat can get a little dry during a
one-way conversation

Hey, I want to see that picture of Riellanart up in that tree

Thanks Justin for organising this, and the Jameses for running the show.

Sorry was I late - I blame Mr. Google for telling me that Grenadier Cafe is located on Parkside Drive... (and not to mention that I tried to be too smart to walk from Keele station).

Pictures!

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike-tan/3981440948/" title=". by mike.tan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2624/3981440948_1f43c4fe47.jpg" width="500" height="500" alt="."></a>

So, ok, a few of us were not especially attentive.. Here we were, monkeying around:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike-tan/3982060020/" title="Kevin II by mike.tan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2629/3982060020_d9444515fe.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="Kevin II"></a>

The set (we did not do much shooting, actually):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike-tan/s ... 515604192/

Thanks for setting this up guys!

Thank you to James as well. You did a great job at organizing and explaining the material.

Too bad we had to cut it short due to the rain. Hopefully you'll do more in the future!

I also want to thanks Justin and James for organizing and running the lecture. I enjoyed the practical and liked how we started off with one strobe and adjusted with a different modifier to view the effect.

It was just really unfortunate that we didn't get to move into the multiple strobes. I will definitely try to attend the next one.

Thanks

Hey, didn't anybody else take pictures?

Why would there be pictures Mike? The only pictures taken were for technique demonstration purposes only - that is, other than the ones taken when folks were monkeying around and not paying attention

In the future we will definitely have an intermediate/advanced strobist session.

[sulks]feels scolded[/sulks]

Yes please!

James, here is evidence that Mike was indeed paying attention
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesycheem/3983453915/" title="Strobist 1.5 Workshop by ~Jamesy~, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2578/3983453915_d1fc192afd.jpg" width="500" height="333" alt="Strobist 1.5 Workshop"></a>

No, he's just checking out Pebbz .. lol j/k.
Mike, I'm just messing with you .. it's all good.

and a shot of us taking over the Grenadier Cafe, shot with a 20km x 20km softbox and 4x10^26 W continuous light.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike-tan/3983498619/" title="the gang II by mike.tan, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3526/3983498619_74192a6d1c.jpg" width="500" height="281" alt="the gang II"></a>

Mike, I too like the BIG GIANT softbox you speak of; but I find it to be unreliable - sometimes it goes away, only to reveal a hard light behind it, or like yesterday, it turn into a BIG soggy softbox

yeah, but that makes it challenging and fun right?

If people don't already do so, subscription to strobist.com (on your favourite feed reader) is fun; look what got posted today:

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The original post explains it a little: http://strobist.blogspot.com/2009/10/nu ... ernet.html

Here's a quick quiz for you guys for fun - how many light sources are used for this lovely picture of George? And how would you darken the ambient portion of the picture?

First to answer correctly gets a lollipop

1) Catchlights in the eye and specular highlights on the nose

2)MS Paint?

i win the mental retard award.


p.s Getting in the habit of examining the Eye catch-lights in every freaking poster in the bus shelter, TTC station walls from really close-up makes you look like a ....

Lol. You crack me up Andy. Try looking at fashion mags just to examine the catchlights - fellow retard here.

It seems like nobody wants to win a lolly

Since Andy was not there, I'm going to steal his answer.

1) Catchlights in the eye and specular highlights on the nose

2) Close down the aperture. (MS Paint is for n00bs!)

Sorry Pebbz - incorrect on both (p.s. don't listen to Andy). Lolly is still up for grabs

Note: the picture was taken at these settings: