Swiss Strobist / Discuss

Mark Howells-Mead    says:

What
We're planning a day/afternoon of photography on the ETH campus (website, map) at Hönggerberg in Zürich, on Sunday 21st September. Whoever is interested: please sign up here, so that we know how many people are coming along. Please also indicate what equipment you have and whether you'd be prepared to share it on the day.

Where and when
Meeting time is now decided: we're meeting at 12:00 in front of the cafeteria (just opposite the bus stop). For the ones driving: Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse, Höngg. Please see the comments further down this page regarding driving directions and bus/train routes!

Aim of the day
We're planning on separating into a couple of groups, with one or more experienced strobist photographer/s with a group of people eager to learn. We'll set up a couple of shots, explain the lighting setup and then help you to achieve good results and set up alternatives if you have ideas.

If you're more into portraiture using available light, there are no rules to say that you have to use flash! We saw many great results achieved in Winterthur in March this year, many of which were achieved using natural light.

Equipment
Useful equipment to bring with you, if you can, includes camera and lenses (obviously!), any external flash guns you may have, a tripod, coloured plastic gels or filters (even lens filters might be useful) and a notepad and paper to jot down useful tips. If you only have a compact camera, you can still join in: there are several ways to get much better results with a point-and-shoot camera than just pointing and shooting!

If you're on a budget, don't worry! You can still achieve great results with even the most basic equipment! The lovely light in this photo of Jo was achieved using a flash gun, a piece of A4 copier paper and a rubber band!

If you have a little more equipment, such as optical triggers, light stands or spare flash guns, then please do bring them along. Be sure to mark anything you bring with you, so that equipment doesn't get mixed up if you intend sharing it with others. Also make sure that you bring your equipment in a waterproof bag, as the meet-up will be taking place in September and it may not be as great weather as we'll hope for.

Weather
If current autumnal weather is anything to go by, then make sure you bring/wear warm clothes, including hats and gloves. It may not be that cold if you're moving about, but it will feel much colder standing around or posing, and if you're holding a camera above waist level for any length of time whilst taking photos.

Models
Sarah Stone + partner, Sabrina Rees and friend, who are kindly going to be attending, will be working in exchange for (digital) copies of our photographs. Therefore, I will be making sure that everyone has details of where they will need to send their pictures: preferably edited and on a CD-R by post.

Update: Beat (strobe2go) has agreed that the photos taken on the day of the models attending may not be sold on, either by the models or by the photographer/s, without prior agreement. To this effect, each photographer present will need to sign an agreement; we think that this is perfectly reasonable and professional, but please leave a comment here if you don't agree.

Photographers attending
In: Béatrice, Victor, Eke, Mark and Jo, George, 2ni, Eloisa, Nick, Beat (strobe2go), Nina, Karin, Charles.J-R, Claudy (maybe), Oliver (visualist_ch), dontom_zh, Meder (novocainated), Stefan Pharies, Valerio Soncini, L Todd Austin.
Originally posted at 11:04AM, 18 August 2008 PDT (permalink)
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