This meetup will show how just one studio flash can create a range of lighting strategies for portaits. You will experiment with getting a soft beauty light through to moody fashion style portraits, and play around with getting a range of expressions from your subjects. Be prepared to jump straight in and set up lights and choose your backdrop/space. You will need to bring your own models or be willing to take turns modelling for each other. This is a good chance for a friend or family member to break into the modelling industry! But actually - anyone can be fine, as the theme is portraits of everyday people. See how one light can transform a human into an artwork! Men or Women or Men with Women on Motorcycles are Alloiwable!

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Come along to an inspiring setting and practice the 3 essentials for a well-exposed picture - f stops and depth of field, shutter speed and ISO. Learn about composition and creating feeling in images, all the while experiencing the excitement and hipness of K Rd All levels are welcome but bring along your beginner's sense of wonder and joy! An SLR digital camera with zoom or 50mm and telephoto would be good and a data card with a lot of space! Make sure your camera is fully charged up and rearing to go!

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Come for a stroll around Western Springs Reserve and shoot a variety of inspiring birds. Practice using your telephoto and/or get in close to these amazing creatures. If you are new at this, the skills you will practice here will stand you in good stead for other genres. Capture texture, vibrant colours, movement, and composition - all the while getting the weekend off to a healthy start with cool winter air! Bring your zooms, macros portable flash (not necessary) a lot of patience and your excitement for the great outdoors.

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This is your chance to celerbate the out of focus backdrop, and get immersed in showing the dettails of closeup objects! Open for all levels, we will be making use of low depth of field, macro lenses and zooms/telephots to get that gorgeous effect called Bokeh. And this will be in a historical setting of Auckland University Old buildings and Albert Park! Preferably bring a 50mm or longer lens with a lower f stop - but , really any lens is good as we will be totally immersing ourtselves in colour ( set your cameras on vivid colour settings) and/or monochrome, with attention to detail.

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This Class will give you some fun, beautiful images and a feeling of mastery over your camera. We will look at the 3 essential elements of good exposure - ISO, shutter speed and aperture. We will understand and practice the depth of field and the rules of composition such as the Rule of Thirds, Perspective and other design principles We will be shooting around the Panmure Boatyard! Bring a 50mm or longer lens as we will be practising depth of field. But if you don't have one - that is fine - there is a lot to practice and keep you occupied, and the principles can still be applied with any lens. A rainy day location and date will be advised.

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Back by Popular Demand! In this Meetup we will practice using portable flash in two situations: Flash with sunlight (as fill and key light) and flash with tungsten/other ambient light. You will get to grips with using your flash as a tool in controlling the light how you want it. Fun! The idea is this will be hands on and practising the technical aspects so they become second nature. Bring a model if you have one. Otherwise, you can use elments from your environment or avilable subjects (people/animals) down there.

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