Thursday, September 17, 2009

Tutorial 1: Bokeh Shape Filters

Despite the rain, we still had a fantastic turn-out at our second meeting! We learned a bit about bokeh and how to make our own shape filters!

Bokeh refers to the æsthetic quality of the out-of-focus areas of an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field. This basically means you can have a subject in focus with the background blurry.

Bokeh shape filters alter the shape of out of focus lights. It's much easier to show than to explain, so here are some images from the meeting!



If you'd like to try this out for yourself, there's a great tutorial here.

At our next meeting, we'll be covering the basics of photography. F-stops, ISO, aperture... all that jazz! If you're new to photography, this is the meeting for you! If you're not.. it's a great way to refresh your memory! We hope to see you there!

Catchin' up on all that fancy stuff.

A new year, a new blog.

The Photography Club has gotten off to a great start this semester! We've had a great turn-out for our first two meetings, and I can only hope it gets better from here!

We have some awesome officers this semester:
President: Emily Schwarting
Vice President: David Wixom
Secretaries: Angela Ardery and Taryn Walker
Treasurer: Angel Mitchell
Event Coordinator: Amanda Potter
Public Relations: Lauren Bunte

Our adviser is still the beautiful Tania Khalaf, a RTVF professor.

Unless announced otherwise, meetings are held every other Wednesday at 8pm in the Art Building, Room 234.