I am Vaccinium, and I will serve as your host for Eden Photographers. Welcome to the start of what I hope will be a fun and rewarding experience for everyone on Eden Fantasys who loves the art of photography. This subforum, the Eden Clubs and Events Blog, and the Eden Photographers Tumblr blog (coming soon) will serve as the three homes for the content of this club. The subforum is where questions can be asked, monthly club meetings will take place, and general discussion about photography can occur. The Eden Clubs and Events Blog is where I will be posting weekly photography-related articles and meeting summaries, and other content. The Tumblr blog is where photos you choose to submit each month will be posted so that fellow club members can critique them.
My articles will touch on a broad array of photography topics, from equipment, to technique, to composition, to photo processing. Although these articles will help many of you better understand the art and science of photography, I feel the critiquing is where all of us (myself included) can most benefit. Critiquing a photo will hone your critical photographic eye, and at the same time provide feedback to the person posting the photo.
I hope all of you will be able to attend our monthly meetings. I will be bringing up certain topics for discussion at these meetings that I touch on in the blog articles, and it will also be a place to socialize, talk about photography, and learn about the monthly theme for the photos to be posted on the blog. There will also be a $25 gift card given away at each meeting, as if the photography talk wasn’t enough for you to attend.
I’ll get into all these topics in greater detail as we move forward.
A little about myself: I am not a classically trained photographer, as my educational background is actually in science. My photography reflects this, as I specialize in nature photography. I have been taking photographs for much of my life, but I have been a serious photographer for about 13 years now. I don’t actively try to get my photography published, but I have had several published in magazines and in business and government brochures and guides. Instead, nearly all my photos are actually being saved up for a series of books I’m busily shopping around to publishers. For this reason, I probably won’t be posting much of that photography here, but instead will focus on other photographic genres with which have less experience. As such, I’m hoping all of you can help me become a better photographer as much as I can help you do the same.
So, feel free to treat this forum as any other, and post about any photography-related topic you desire.
My articles will touch on a broad array of photography topics, from equipment, to technique, to composition, to photo processing. Although these articles will help many of you better understand the art and science of photography, I feel the critiquing is where all of us (myself included) can most benefit. Critiquing a photo will hone your critical photographic eye, and at the same time provide feedback to the person posting the photo.
I hope all of you will be able to attend our monthly meetings. I will be bringing up certain topics for discussion at these meetings that I touch on in the blog articles, and it will also be a place to socialize, talk about photography, and learn about the monthly theme for the photos to be posted on the blog. There will also be a $25 gift card given away at each meeting, as if the photography talk wasn’t enough for you to attend.
I’ll get into all these topics in greater detail as we move forward.
A little about myself: I am not a classically trained photographer, as my educational background is actually in science. My photography reflects this, as I specialize in nature photography. I have been taking photographs for much of my life, but I have been a serious photographer for about 13 years now. I don’t actively try to get my photography published, but I have had several published in magazines and in business and government brochures and guides. Instead, nearly all my photos are actually being saved up for a series of books I’m busily shopping around to publishers. For this reason, I probably won’t be posting much of that photography here, but instead will focus on other photographic genres with which have less experience. As such, I’m hoping all of you can help me become a better photographer as much as I can help you do the same.
So, feel free to treat this forum as any other, and post about any photography-related topic you desire.
