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Re: [OM] ADITL2 - and future ADITL events

Subject: Re: [OM] ADITL2 - and future ADITL events
From: Gregg Iverson <giverson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 10:40:08 -0500
Count me in.  I like the list too.

Gregg

Mike Stoesz wrote:
> 
> Great list of ideas, Olaf.
> If we follow Olaf's list in order we will have the next year + worth of 
> projects
> to keep us busy.
> 
> Let's go for it.
> Mike
> 
> Olaf Greve wrote:
> 
> > Wow!
> >
> > I'm impressed, the results look great!
> >
> > I've been awaiting George's message (informing us the pics were up) with
> > great impatience, and it's just so much fun to have participated too, and
> > there are some truly great images there.
> >
> > I especially like the fact that everyone got back to basics, left their
> > expensive Zuiko glass (with the exception of 50/2 macro lenses) @ home, and
> > took such a wide variety of pictures, ranging from portraits to macro shots;
> > very nice indeed!
> >
> > It's also quite cool that we can now add comments to the pictures
> > themselves; great job George!
> >
> > Now, there's only one "regret", and that's that there will only be 4 ADITL
> > events per year, whereas I already can't wait for the next one. What do you
> > guys think, shall we maybe make it a 2-monthly event? I would also love to
> > help out with the HTML stuff etc, so George will not become overloaded.
> >
> > Either way, I think the idea of picking themes for the ADITL events is
> > great, and it's pretty easy to come up with a list of themes to last us well
> > until the next millenium; some suggestions (some have already been
> > suggested):
> >
> > -Self portraits: Requires no investment for the photographer, any
> > lens/camera can be used. I think this one by now has pretty much been
> > elected as the next theme already, right?
> > -Bokeh: As we can see on the ADITL2 page it's possible to get pretty good
> > bokeh even with standard 50mm lenses, so this theme would also not have to
> > incur any additional cost to the photographer, unless the zuikoholics want
> > to use it as justification for buying a 100/2 ;)
> > -Night pictures: This is a theme I would love to do, as I very much like to
> > take night pictures and IMO they give a totally different view on the world
> > (just compare the difference between a daytime shot of the Eifel tower
> > (pretty ugly brownish tower, with heaps of tourists) and a nighttime shot of
> > that nice huge "golden A").
> > -Human settlement shots: Capturing the dynamic aspects of a big metropolis,
> > or taking nice pics of a small Andean village. Anything to capture the
> > interesting aspects of a group of humans living together goes.
> > -Nature: Maybe this should even be split up into flora and fauna, either
> > way, I personally see this as about the most difficult kind of photography,
> > so it should be a real challenge to pull off a great nature shot.
> > -Portraits: A field of photography I'm currently focussing on, it should be
> > interesting to see how people would go about the selection of their subjects
> > and lighting conditions.
> > -Abstract pictures: Anything which will make the viewer wonder what the heck
> > it is that appears in the picture.
> > -B&W photography: A field in which I have zero experience, but I'd love to
> > play around with it a few times at least.
> > -Flash pictures: No I'm not referring to "exposing" ourselves ;) but rather
> > to making sure that the "film exposures" will have been made using one or
> > more flashes. Maybe people will object to this, as not everyone has a flash.
> > Either way, having little experience with flashes I would think it would be
> > a great motivation for experimenting with them.
> > -Macro pictures: Realising I will probably never be able to beat the
> > excellent macro shots made by (a.o.) C.H. Ling and Daan Kalmeijer, I would
> > still love to see a macro edition as that is one of the things in which the
> > OM system excels. Also, macro shots can even be taken using very cheap gear
> > (off brand extension tubes, close-up lenses), so it wouldn't be too
> > expensive, although the lucky ones among us who can afford the fancy bellows
> > lenses etc. might have an edge. Macro photography is another of those fields
> > in which I have pretty much zero knowledge but which I'd love to explore.
> >
> > Any input is more than welcome, and I hope we can indeed increase the ADITL
> > frequency...
> >
> > Cheerio!
> > Olafo
> >
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