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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