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by **Oz_Beachside** on Fri May 02, 2008 10:58 am

hello, as an action from the melbourne dinner last week, we agreed to call more mini meets, so, how about a meet under the timber shingle hut at Black Rock Beach, enter the path directly opposite 344 Beach Road Black ROck. If its raining we can meet under cover, and from there we can shoot lots of stuff. pleasing sandstone cliffs, seaside grasses, blue stone wall along waters edge, rocks in the water, sand, grass, lots to use. perhaps we can bring some portrait subjects too.

bring your kit, maybe we use this to experiemnt with our flash guns too, as the sun sets across the water. then a coffee or a bite in Black Rock Shops, Bluff Road.

how about a sunday 230pm? use the voting and we will see what suits...

Location
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=344+beach+road+black+rock&sll=-37.981898,145.019274&sspn=0.001797,0.003626&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.981708,145.019225&spn=0.001797,0.003626&t=h&z=18&iwloc=addr

post your ideas here too!

by **Louie** on Fri May 02, 2008 5:25 pm

Sounds good Bruce, will be great to get some more minimeets happening

by **Oz_Beachside** on Sat May 03, 2008 10:33 pm

25 May and 1 June are neck and neck!

by **ozboyerp** on Mon May 05, 2008 4:21 pm

Hi Everyone

I will be back from overseas on the 19 and leaving again overseas on the 24 for a month..

So for sure in July When I back in town!

pierrick

by **Oz_Beachside** on Mon May 05, 2008 8:14 pm

25 May has hit the lead with 3 votes!

by **chewlinyip** on Wed May 07, 2008 12:44 pm

wwwooo another meet up! i'll try to remember this one !

by **Oz_Beachside** on Wed May 07, 2008 1:37 pm

lets lock in May 23 230pm with 63% of votes today.

GregB / Gary would you be kind enough to add this to the front page calendar?

by **Greg B** on Wed May 07, 2008 4:30 pm

Oz_Beachside wrote:lets lock in May 23 230pm with 63% of votes today.

GregB / Gary would you be kind enough to add this to the front page calendar?

Bruce

Done

cheers

by **PiroStitch** on Wed May 07, 2008 10:06 pm

i should be able to make it since it's about 5 minutes from where i live. If I do come, I'll bring the little gadgets for people to have a field test as well...and it works with both Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Fuji, etc

by **Louie** on Wed May 07, 2008 11:16 pm

I'll be there

PiroStitch wrote:If I do come, I'll bring the little gadgets for people to have a field test as well...and it works with both Canon, Nikon, Pentax, Fuji, etc

Hope you can make it!

I'm looking forward to doing some outdoor photography and hopefully getting a few tips and tricks, as well as catching up again.

by **methd** on Thu May 08, 2008 5:39 am

Oz_Beachside wrote:lets lock in May 23 230pm with 63% of votes today.

GregB / Gary would you be kind enough to add this to the front page calendar?

May 25th, u mean

by **Greg B** on Thu May 08, 2008 5:54 am

methd wrote:
Oz_Beachside wrote:lets lock in May 23 230pm with 63% of votes today.

GregB / Gary would you be kind enough to add this to the front page calendar?

May 25th, u mean

DOH! Well spotted. I have posted a correct calendar entry and I'll get Gary to remove the 23/5 item.

by **Oz_Beachside** on Tue May 20, 2008 6:55 pm

see you all this sunday!!!

by **makario** on Wed May 21, 2008 11:24 am

looking forward to it

by **whoalse** on Thu May 22, 2008 9:12 pm

will be there if not too bloody cold!

Oz_Beachside, are u bringing your super car there?!

Pirostitch, does that mean we can crash your place if weather permits?! :lol:

See you guys there......

by **Oz_Beachside** on Thu May 22, 2008 10:25 pm

whoalse wrote:
See you guys there......

I'll probably get the bus...

by **PiroStitch** on Thu May 22, 2008 11:29 pm

You can crash at Sandringham train station

I believe there's a sheltered area there

by **camrak** on Fri May 23, 2008 2:30 pm

I also will be there - will be nice for me to meet people whom I now known only as forum nicks. See you there!

by **paulmac** on Fri May 23, 2008 3:31 pm

G'day. I'm Paul, and I'm planning to make it too. Always looking for an excuse to play with and learn more about my new 450D.
(short time lurker...first time poster!)

by **PiroStitch** on Fri May 23, 2008 3:54 pm

Awesome we have Paul Mac coming! Can ya bring your DJ equipment too for some tunes?

by **photograham** on Fri May 23, 2008 7:06 pm

Marg and I intend coming along to put some seriousness into the afternon. Remember, we are trying to be photographers!!!!

by **Louie** on Fri May 23, 2008 7:28 pm

photograham wrote:Marg and I intend coming along to put some seriousness into the afternon. Remember, we are trying to be photographers!!!!

Huh?? Photographers??

Looking forward to seeing everyone there (and maybe taking a photo or two as well ... :wink:

)

Elena

by **photograham** on Fri May 23, 2008 9:50 pm

We're really looking forward to catching up with everyone else and having a feed after trying to take a couple of photos during the afternoon!!!

by **Oz_Beachside** on Sun May 25, 2008 7:11 pm

thanks to all those for coming along, we had a nice time meeting up, and a surprise sunset that I hope we see some pics from!

by **makario** on Sun May 25, 2008 8:55 pm

thanks Bruce for organising this meetup. I had a fantastic time!

Cheers
Mak

by **whoalse** on Sun May 25, 2008 11:16 pm

Yeah....Thanks to Bruce for doing this :cheers:

Can't wait for Piro to put on his "Kenny" suit for next meet! :mrgreen:

by **paulmac** on Mon May 26, 2008 11:02 am

Nice to meet everyone, even before I've had a chance to chat with you all online...

Makario (and others), the Cokin clone filters I had were from http://stores.ebay.com.au/LinkDelight-Photography-Aus-Shop. $11 each, and free postage too...
I also bought from them an infrared remote control for my 450D, for all of $7.

Cheers everyone. I wish I could have stayed around a bit longer. Looking forward to the next meetup.

Now I have a favour to ask. With all you off-camera flash-freaks playing yesterday (yeah I'm jealous), who has a nice pic of me that I can use as an avatar?

by **PiroStitch** on Mon May 26, 2008 11:15 am

Was great to meet everyone yesterday and see some familiar faces...next time I'm going to show up wearing a balaclava

I think Elena had a few good off camera lighting ones held by a human lightstand aka. Me.

by **camrak** on Mon May 26, 2008 11:19 am

I also had a great time. Now I waiting for another one meet

I have just two your portrets paulmacs, but on gray bay background

so ask Elena for better one

by **Louie** on Mon May 26, 2008 7:45 pm

camrak wrote:I also had a great time. Now I waiting for another one meet
I have just two your portrets paulmacs, but on gray bay background so ask Elena for better one

Haha, not often I get asked for my people pictures! I will have a look for you, am sure there will be something useful there.

Sunday was great, I had a lot of fun. Just need time to go through all my pics now and post some up .....

by **pucara** on Mon May 26, 2008 10:03 pm

thanks to every one for the great time I have last sunday ......carlos...

by **makario** on Tue May 27, 2008 9:33 pm

Hey Paul,

I got one of you using your blue filter and the human lightstand (aka Wayne)... Let me know if you want me to email it to you.

Cheers
Mak

by **PiroStitch** on Tue May 27, 2008 9:41 pm

Post it up Mak

I want to see the results as well.

by **paulmac** on Tue May 27, 2008 10:20 pm

Post it up... just make sure it won't scare my kids...

Some funky colours going on here with the grey filter:

And the blue one:

Not particularly inspired pictures, but having fun with the 10-20mm lens nonetheless...
And some documentary evidence of the soccer ball on it's way to Brazil...

by **makario** on Tue May 27, 2008 10:40 pm

Here you go ...

http://dslrusers.net/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=32564&sid=0f23b06588b2ea691067416259ebf622

by **rflower** on Wed May 28, 2008 7:40 pm

The obligatory group shot

Back row ->Wayne (PiroStitch), Bruce (OzBeachside), Makario (Makario), Carlos (???), Patricia(???), Margret(Mrs photograham), Graham (photograham), Russell (rflower)
Front row -> Allen(Whoalse), Paul (PaulMac), Elena (Louie), Arkadiusz(camrak) and the kids (3 mini rflowers :lol: )

If I have stuffed up the names and nicknames let me know ... if someone knows the missing nicknames let me know and I will update the post.

Here is my take on the events.
http://www.dslrusers.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=32585

Thanks for organising the location and date Bruce. If anyone has any reasonable shots of my family etc, let me know.

by **camrak** on Wed May 28, 2008 9:40 pm

One happy family :cheers:

by **Oz_Beachside** on Wed May 28, 2008 10:54 pm

rflower wrote:Thanks for organising the location and date Bruce. If anyone has any reasonable shots of my family etc, let me know.

you are welcome, thanks for coming along.

I have some pics of the kids if you are interested, PM me your email.

by **whoalse** on Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:28 pm

I've finally got to the photos taken last month's meet!

More here.

Photograham, Poon's D3 price looks tempting, doesn't it? :lol:

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