Toronto Photography Meetup Group

Details:

What: Member's Travel Slideshow
When: Monday May 3rd 2010
Time: 7PM
Where: CAMH, 250 College Street. Stokes Auditorium
Bring: You and your pictures

PLEASE ONLY SIGN UP HERE IF YOU WANT TO PRESENT.

We were talking.. and thought it would be a good time to have another member's slideshow again. This time, we have a twist! We want members to present their travel pictures. It can be from around Canada, or beyond. Please try to limit the number of pictures you show. Each presenter will be given 15 minutes, with a maximum of 8 presenters for the evening. So putting together roughly a 2 hour program ideally. You are welcome to present a photo essay to music, or just display images.

For those presenting images, please prepare your images to 1024 pixels on the long side, and please PM me to make arrangements to get them to me.

If you want to attend the event, but not present, I will be posting the audiance attendance shortly.

Rats! I can't do Tuesday nights!

what? ok - willing to switch. What night is good for you.

Thursdays and Fridays are generally good, and after the 19th, Mondays are wide open. (19th is my last ballhockey game.) That would be awesome if you could switch the date!

Cool idea, depending what day it is, I could bring my South African photos if there are interest? I can't do Wednesdays.

Do you expect the presenter to narrate & give brief story / description about each photo? Would 30 photos be good for 15 minutes? That's about 30sec per photo.

Sorry folks -- temporary insanity! The real date is Monday May 3rd - not 6th.

Its going to be May 3rd - Monday. And 30 photos would work.... a brief description is good - and you can discuss images as they come.

hi.
i just spent a year in australia and have heaps of photos i'd love to share.
of course i'll limit it to the time frame required.
i'd love to participate.

please let me know if im in!

cheers.

tracy

Tracy at the left top of the page there is a button that is marked I will present Hit the button and you will be registered.

Look forward to your presentation.

I'd show some photos from Trinidad, but they are taken with a (crappy) point n shoot.

Hotwire got me worried now. Do I need to qualify for the slideshow?

I'll be heartbroken if you tell me that my South African photos suck! I got a lot of travel photos but I like the SA ones by far. I you feel the need to critic them, and please keep them as constructive comments & provide suggestions on improvement.

Catherine, you don't need to "qualify" for the slideshow.

a) There is nothing wrong with using a P&S camera. It's the photographer that makes the photo, not the camera.

b) We would never tell you your photos suck. I think most of us realize that (especially) when traveling, capturing the moment and the feeling is more important than getting the "perfect" shot. If you show us some of your most interesting photos, and there's a bit of a story or description to go along with it, I think most people will be content.

I, for one, am more interested in seeing interesting places to consider traveling to, than critiquing others' photos!

Sorry, my apologies for the confusion, and unintended insult.

My point was that my point n shoot is crappy, not that all point n shoots are crappy. It's all in the photographer, and I'm not sure I was in the right mental mode when I was in Trinidad for photos. For me, most of February and March i was in a photographic lull, to the point where I hardly used any camera, vacation notwithstanding.

For those who are facebook friends of mine, give me another few days to finish posting the photos, and tell me if they are worth the slide show.

You went somewhere cool, and took a camera. I think that you "qualified".

Fine, by my own crappy logic, I guess I'm presenting too.

I think I promised to do this at the last slide show too.

I brought 2 DSLRs, so I can double qualify. I didn't want to swop lens in the safari.

Chris, don't worry. I knew what you meant, but wanted to make sure others knew that a P&S is still fine. Especially since my travel photos were taken with my S3 (which is still pretty much a P&S!). I'm just going to make sure that I pick out my best ones and leave the blurry ones out of it.

Aw, man! I've gone to a few interesting places this past year, but I can't make this date...
...since I'll be travelling.
That's kind of ironic, eh

Ironically, I'm learning how to force my P&S to do what I want. It's got a bunch of fancy modes (beach, fireworks, portrait, sunset) but no explanation in the manual what was set. I guess most people who use P&S wouldn't want to know the details of f-stop, shutter, ISO OR focal distance. But I think there should be an advance manual for those who care.

I'd like to present, but I'd have trouble filling 15 minutes (without resorting to "this is the same shot as before, but with my finger accidentally in front of the lens").
I've registered under "Future presenter", but if we're short on presenters, I could get something together for this one.

We've got one slot left John... your welcome to it, or of someone else wants to jump in, then either which way... its all good.

Depending on the popularity of this one - I might organize another "Travel" show in in the fall. We'll definately do another members show before that, maybe with a different theme.


David

David, may I present via 35 mm slides? (I think you said "yes" at the restaurant, but I just wanted to make sure.)

hi david,

i have a few questions as i've never attended or presented at one of these before...
when's the latest you would need the pictures by?
how are we presenting this - what's the format?
is this a classroom like set up?

thanks!

tracy

Hey Dan,

did you want to do your thing on a seperate night? Or only a 15 minute bit as part of this show. Its up to you. 35mm slides are fine.

The images will be presented using Proshow Presenter -- make the images 1024 pixels on the long side, and ideally I'd like the images before the presentation ... either email or I'll see if I can do it via our FTP here at work. Failing that - if you bring a disc or memory stick 45 minutes before the show start -- then I can load them into the computer.

Hmm, that's a tough one. Tell you what, I'll present miscellaneous travel slides this time; and I'll hold out for an all-Italy night (or something like that) to show my Italy slides.

(If we wait long enough, it will evolve into and "Italy and Spain" thing.)

Any chance we'd have access to a small sampler of the shots to be viewed? Sorry if it is an unreasonable request but not everyone lives downtown. I'll understand if it isn't possible. Getting to the site does involve a bit of a time and logistics investment for some of us as we all could be doing other important things.The monetary cost isn't the issue - it's the oportunity cost of the time. I have something else that is important for me that I can do that night and would like to base my decision on the best available information. Yeah, I'm really interested in this event but am torn between it and something else.

Trust me, $1 donation isn't the issue. I'd gladly pay twice and maybe THRICE that much if I knew Orangutan or Philmar were presenting. I've seen plenty of their travel work and it is superb. No slight to those who are but it's a pity those 2 aren't presenting. Have they presented in the past?

Trev not to be rude here but it seems that you've just dissed other people here as you don't have an interest in seeing everybody's photo but if and only if they're of superb quality like the two individuals you just mentioned. We're not going to go and get a small sample of shots to be viewed online - it's going to be an effort on the organizer's part and I doubt he's willing to spend the time to do that. If you can't make it you can't make it, simple as that.

Just me here, but TPMG is a bit more than just viewing other people's photo, but it's also the point of meeting and talking with other people face-to-face.

Hi Presenters! You are all wonderful people for stepping forward to present your work - and I appreciate it very much.

I just wanted to give folks the option to bring your images with you tomorrow night if you are coming to the social - as I'll have my laptop with me, and we can load them into proshow right away? If not -- bring them on Monday next week before the presentation -- 6:15pm would be good -- as it gives me enough time to arrange them.

thank you,

David

I will be at the social tomorrow night, David, but I won't have them ready yet, unfortunately. But I am working on it! I will bring my images on a flash drive on Mon. night (not Tues.!) before the show and will arrive around 6:15 as you've requested....