Photo Club Future Event/Topic Ideas
Ideas for future topics, field trips
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Snap & Share topics
- Candy
- Bokeh
- Get High / Shoot Low
- Moon
- Industrial
- Swimmers & Floaters
- Wildlife / Humanlife
- Red / Blue (or monochrome color; the major interest or most of the pic is this color)
- White on white (or, "simply white" where subject is clean, almost minimalist, and color is white)
- Weird Plants
- Weeds
- Ground level (shooting from...)
- Metal
- Children
- Landscapes
- Glassware and highly reflective surfaces, e.g. metal
- Threes (numbers)
- science
- Skyline
- Corridor/handrail/stairs
- cheerful / somber
- humorous / spooky (maybe for Halloween)
- odd things in nature
- Americana
- Young (or new)
- Old
- Forced Perspective
- Fireflies in June (Genevieve)
- Night Sky photography
- Lunar surface photography
- Azaleas at Arboretum in April/May (Karen S)
- Huntley Meadows (Peter K)
- Mount Vernon (Peter K)
- Ospreys (Eliot)
- Longwood Gardens, National Arboretum, Orchid show, Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, Zoo, Patuxent Wildlife Refuge, Philadelphia Flower Show, Brookside
- Mason Neck State Park (eagles, Jan/Feb is best)
- Street fairs, Eastern Market
- Bike race, zombie race
- Air show, B&O Railraod museum, Annapolis boats, Preakness balloon ascension/glow
- Monuments at night, sculpture garden, zoo
- Eastern State Penitentiary (Philly),
- Lonaconing Maryland Silk Mill about 2.5 hours from Bethesda
- Columbia, VA Truck Grave Yard also about 2.5 hours from Bethesda
- 34th street in Baltimore, over the top Christmas lights
- DC Sculpture Garden and ice skaters
- Forest Haven, Laurel, abandoned hospital
- Savage Mill and bridge
- Riversdale Mansion, they offered to host an exhibit of our photos of their grounds
- Ishon's suggestions: Sunflowers @ Clear Meadow Farm, St. Mary's Seminary ruins, Cylburn arboretum, Lake Drummond, Huntley Meadows Park
- Tom Manson's suggestions: Swamp along Soil Conservation Road (near gate 23)
- Architecture of Downtown Baltimore (Brent Warner)
- Battlefields: (Antietam (north central MD), Gettysburg/Valley Forge (south / southeast PA))
- Annapolis (historic buildings, state house, boats, naval academy)
- Richmond (city center, jefferson hotel, truck graveyard, james river park, tudor estate)
- Tobacco Barns (general - where?)*
- Tangier Island (ferry) / Smith Island (ferry) / Tilghman Island (drawbridge)
- St. Michaels / Wye Mills / Maritime Museum (MD eastern shore)
- Harpers Ferry (nw MD)
- Monticello/UVA/Montpelier (w VA)
- Nature: Blackwater Wildlife Refuge (MD eastern shore), Natural Bridge (sw VA), Thurmont (nw MD)
- Falling Water / Ohiopyle State Park (sw PA)
- Chadds Ford / Andrew Wyeth scenery / Lancaster Amish country (se PA)
- Point Lookout (Matthew Marcus)
- David Silver, President of the International Photographic Historical Organization (Brent Warner)
- Photo Workflow (naming/organizing/searching/products)
- GIMP (Sandra)
- Current camera review (Sandra)
- Photo CSI (when/where a photo was taken by shadows, stars, etc., Sandra)
- Vendor presentation on scanners
- Launch photography
- Copyrighting/watermarking your photos & social media usage policies
- Photo Contests
- Scanning & Copying
- Metering & autofocus modes/zones
- Retouching old photos
- Photomerge
- Showing motion in your photography
- Leading lines
- Artistic in-camera choices - high-/low-key, creative focus, low-/high-angle, multiple exposure, slow-sync flash, intentional grain, IR
- Zoo photography tips
- Ritz camera in Bethesda, or Canon or Nikon representatives to talk about new equipment
- Using Flickr
- Cameras 101: What do "Auto, P, A, S, M" do? How does auto-focus work? What's exposure compensation?
- Photo processing (Photoshop course)
- wildlife photography - Pat Martin at HQ?
- Glamour photography
- Family portraits
(Make suggestions to any board member.)
Field trip ideas
(To make suggestions for future field trips or lead one of these, contact any board member.)
(To make suggestions or offer to present a topic at the meeting, contact any board member.)
