FACEBOOK CHALLENGE
1) Must first be a member of Facebook.
2) Go to Hot Springs Village Camera Club group.
3) Submit request to join group AND answer the three questions. You will receive FB notice when you have been approved. Be sure to choose FOLLOW.
4) At the beginning of the month watch for a new challenge, which is chosen by the winner of the previous month. The winner's photo is used for the group's banner for the next month; thus horizontal format is best.
5) When posting your photo for the current challenge, tag your photo with:
#monthlychallengeMoYr --- For example #monthlychallengeJan26
6) You may post as many as you would like for the challenge, but not more than one each day.
Our goal is to become more aware of the photo opportunities surrounding us and to not only share our photos but to bring an educational aspect to the group.
2) Go to Hot Springs Village Camera Club group.
3) Submit request to join group AND answer the three questions. You will receive FB notice when you have been approved. Be sure to choose FOLLOW.
4) At the beginning of the month watch for a new challenge, which is chosen by the winner of the previous month. The winner's photo is used for the group's banner for the next month; thus horizontal format is best.
5) When posting your photo for the current challenge, tag your photo with:
#monthlychallengeMoYr --- For example #monthlychallengeJan26
6) You may post as many as you would like for the challenge, but not more than one each day.
Our goal is to become more aware of the photo opportunities surrounding us and to not only share our photos but to bring an educational aspect to the group.
February Photo Challenge: "Flowing Waters"
For our February challenge, while we await Spring showers is: "Flowing Waters" any moving water in nature, from waterfalls and streams to raindrops. Good postings!
tag your photo: #monthlychallengeFeb26:
For our February challenge, while we await Spring showers is: "Flowing Waters" any moving water in nature, from waterfalls and streams to raindrops. Good postings!
tag your photo: #monthlychallengeFeb26:
January Facebook Winner
Congratulation's
Peter Trabant
"New Beginnings!"
January is all about fresh starts - big or small, quiet or bold. For this month’s challenge, I'd love to see photos that capture the feeling of New Beginnings!
Peter Trabant shared how to "form a soap bubble for us"
CAMERA: Set up consists of my trusty Canon R5 with a 100mm f2.8 TT Artisan macro lens and remote control set on “manual”. Settings vary using an ISO of 100 and then adjusting f and as fast a shutter speed as you can as the crystals will be moving around inside the bubble as they first start growing and need to be caught. Camera should be “acclimated” to outside before shooting.
PLATFORM: Anything will do if it is ice-cold…. a handful of snow, iced soda-pop can bottom, glass jar filled with frozen water etc.. Important thing is ice cold and a bit of a cup shape to contain the bubble. Placed on a tripod allows one to move it around and align it with camera and background.
BUBBLE MIX: I’ve used the ready-made soap bubble mixtures from Walmart’s toy section (Bubble Blast Solution-64OZ) successfully as well as made my own using 3-parts water, 1-part soap, 2tbsp sugar and 3tbsp glycerin (Walmart Pharma area). Mixture should be a tad cold but not frozen.
SETTING: This is most important. My best shots have been with a rising sun in the background, so cold mornings at temperatures below 20o work best. Trial and error and practice are needed to obtain best results. One may test setups in a warm environment first by blowing bubbles and photographing inside. Then pipette bubble mix onto your platform and blow a bubble and shoot as the colder it is the faster the crystals will form and dance inside. Good luck!
January is all about fresh starts - big or small, quiet or bold. For this month’s challenge, I'd love to see photos that capture the feeling of New Beginnings!
Peter Trabant shared how to "form a soap bubble for us"
CAMERA: Set up consists of my trusty Canon R5 with a 100mm f2.8 TT Artisan macro lens and remote control set on “manual”. Settings vary using an ISO of 100 and then adjusting f and as fast a shutter speed as you can as the crystals will be moving around inside the bubble as they first start growing and need to be caught. Camera should be “acclimated” to outside before shooting.
PLATFORM: Anything will do if it is ice-cold…. a handful of snow, iced soda-pop can bottom, glass jar filled with frozen water etc.. Important thing is ice cold and a bit of a cup shape to contain the bubble. Placed on a tripod allows one to move it around and align it with camera and background.
BUBBLE MIX: I’ve used the ready-made soap bubble mixtures from Walmart’s toy section (Bubble Blast Solution-64OZ) successfully as well as made my own using 3-parts water, 1-part soap, 2tbsp sugar and 3tbsp glycerin (Walmart Pharma area). Mixture should be a tad cold but not frozen.
SETTING: This is most important. My best shots have been with a rising sun in the background, so cold mornings at temperatures below 20o work best. Trial and error and practice are needed to obtain best results. One may test setups in a warm environment first by blowing bubbles and photographing inside. Then pipette bubble mix onto your platform and blow a bubble and shoot as the colder it is the faster the crystals will form and dance inside. Good luck!
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