This event runs through the weekend, Feb 28-Mar 1. It provides an opportunity to do some portrait, journalistic, or creative photography of people getting or inking tattoos. It’s fun and lively and most people readily give permission to be photographed.
Our group will gather at noon on Saturday and people can stay for as long as they like. Food is available on site.
Cost: $20 daily pass, $35 weekend pass
There will be options for the early birds and normal people in terms of where/when to meet up. Early birds will meet at Bovine Bakery in Point Reyes Station at 6:15 am and normal people at 9:00 am at Drake’s Beach. Details are in the write-up Tony Reynes made that includes information on what to bring and what we’ll see.
There aren’t any food facilities so bring your lunch. Trip will end at 3:00 pm.
We know we’re sheltering-in-place (SIP) at least through April, so here’s a little something to stimulate your photographic creativity! Within the strictures of SIPping, this field trip will take place inside your home, outside your home, and on neighborhood walks for one day, as long as you follow social distancing and protective gear rules. Subjects and techniques are only limited by your imagination.
Please RSVP to Trisha if you’re participating. Hope you can make it!
Find materials around your house (no shopping allowed!) that will allow you to create a “reproduction” of a piece of art. It can be from a painting, a sculpture or any other artistic medium. We’ll send out some examples to stimulate your imagination. Have fun with this!
Update: The date of this event has been extended to include the whole weekend.
We’ve come up with two alternatives for this field trip date, depending on whether or not the shelter-in-place order has been lifted. It’s unlikely, but just in case:
Option 1: Pinnacle Gulch State Beach Regional Park, Bodega Bay
Mother’s Day there will be a close-to-full moonset at about 7:30 am over the water and a negative tide of -1.4 feet. These conditions will offer many opportunities for excellent photos. It means an early hike down the trail, so we’ll leave from the parking lot at 6:00 am. We may look at a route from Doran Beach for the not-so-physically-fit. Parking lot is VERY small, so carpooling will be important.
Option 2: Abstract Photos made with Oil, Soap, Milk, Water, and Color
The materials for this option can be combined in any way that suits your fancy. I’ve used oil, water and food color; oil, soap, milk and food color; and other combinations with colored glass below the set up. We will send out instructions by email.
Please RSVP to Trisha if you plan to participate. As we know more about the SIP order, we’ll provide more information about whichever option becomes the field trip.
Again, because we don’t know yet when the shelter-in-place order will be lifted, we’ve developed two options for our second field trip in May.
Option 1: Night Shoot at Lake Sonoma (Cancelled)
The details for this event have yet to be worked out. Joel is working with the ranger at Lake Sonoma to identify the specific site for this activity and the beginning and ending times, so we’ll update this trip once those have been finalized. We’ll send out a list of the gear to bring and we’re hoping this can be a potluck event with a BBQ cookout for vegans and omnivores. Stay tuned…
Option 2: Photographic Distortion
Because the shelter-in-place orders haven’t been lifted enough to allow our night shoot at Lake Sonoma field trip, we will be going with option 2, Distortion. This is an in-camera distortion activity. It can be prismatic, intentional camera movement, multiple-exposure, or magnified. The only restrictions are that the distortions must be created in camera, not in post-processing.
Please RSVP to Trisha if you plan to participate.
For this field trip, I’m asking you to go to the Photoshop Training Channel and learn something new about compositing, then apply that knowledge to your own photos. You’ll have a week to do it, from June 1 to June 6; and I have to tell you, the presenter, Jesus Ramirez, is fantastic.
Please RSVP to me so I can keep track of how many people are participating. Have fun and do something creative!
Here’s another shelter-in-place activity, since we still can’t gather in groups. On a tabletop-type surface (table, desk, anything flat) create a scene or a still life and shoot it. The only restriction is that it has to be indoors.
Please RSVP to Trisha Brown if you plan to participate.