Melbourne August Night Meet - Friday August 26, 2005

[PiroStitch]

Great See you then

[stormygirl]

Stormy.. I live in Rowville and will be coming in by car, is this easier than Alex coming and getting you?

Thanks for the very kind offer, Dean. Husband is taking RDO that day, so he will most likely be able to drop me off!

Maybe if I could get a lift home from someone??

[Alex]

Stormy.. I live in Rowville and will be coming in by car, is this easier than Alex coming and getting you?

Thanks for the very kind offer, Dean. Husband is taking RDO that day, so he will most likely be able to drop me off!

Maybe if I could get a lift home from someone??

Yep, I'm available as I will be going back home (Clayton) afterwards.

Alex

[stormygirl]

Thankyou very much, Alex, that would be wonderful! Very much appreciated!

It will be great to catch up with people again, and meet some new faces.

Now let's hope it's not pouring rain.......

[PiroStitch]

Someone bring white umbrellas...if it's raining we can shelter under them. If not, we'll flip them and bounce the SB800s off them

[kipper]

Mudder might have to lend me his 18-70MM DX if he turns up

[birddog114]

Someone bring white umbrellas...if it's raining we can shelter under them. If not, we'll flip them and bounce the SB800s off them

The top part of the LSII can do the trick if it's rain

[PiroStitch]

Who's still up for Friday Dont' forget your tripods and extra batteries

Does anybody have any ideas for dinner as I'm stumped Anything except Chocolate Buddha please

[embi]

I'm still going

[cameraguy21773]

I'm in. I have a flight reserved from Canberra and will have a hotel booked today for Friday and Sat. Anyone that wants to shoot on Sat or have a "laugh at the Yank" day would certainly be welcome. I'd like some guidance on the best places to shoot, weather permitting.

[gstark]

I'd like some guidance on the best places to shoot, weather permitting.

That would be, er, Sydney.

[genji]

I'm in too, weather permitting, Choco Buddha is alright...

[Alex]

I'm in also. If it rains, I might leave the gear in the car and just come for the dinner

Alex

[stormygirl]

At this stage, things look pretty good weather wise. A high pressure system should dominate, where we 'should' see some fine and mild temps. The models are not predicting rain, and temps 'should' be around 17C on Friday.

DISCLAIMER: This is my interpretation, therefore I am not to be held responsible if the weather turns crap!

I will update as we get a little closer to Friday! We are talking about Melbourne's weather........anything is possible!!

I may be a little late, so if someone could PM me their mobile number, so I can catch up with you if you are not at Fed Square, and in the event of major traffic delays!! Thanks! Otherwise, I will be there. I have Dad's 'heavy duty' tripod, not my crappy one! Looking forward to it!

[PiroStitch]

stormy, pm sent

[cameraguy21773]

I'm staying at the Holiday Inn on Spencer St. If the weather does turn bad or if you just want to drop some of your gear, you can use my room. I'll make sure I'm there about 5:30 in case anyone wants to come by.

Is there a particular place in Fed. Plaza to meet at 6:30?

[PiroStitch]

Mike and everybody else,

I was thinking of meeting around the center of the square, just outside chocolate buddha and under the big screen.

The previous meeting we met at the café but since it's a Friday night and they will be serving dinner, etc, I dno't think we'd be able to waltz in as easily.

Cheers,

Wayne

[stormygirl]

The good news is it's not going to rain but because of the clear skies it will get very cold tomorrow night! 17C during the day, but getting down to 6C overnight! Brrrrrr!

Should be a great night.....don't forget a coat/jacket! Looking forward to seeing everyone!

[genji]

The good news is it's not going to rain but because of the clear skies it will get very cold tomorrow night! 17C during the day, but getting down to 6C overnight! Brrrrrr!

Should be a great night.....don't forget a coat/jacket! Looking forward to seeing everyone!

its beautifu today, took a short walk and almost had heat stroke!!

[PlatinumWeaver]

Chances are quite high that I wont be able to make it.. if I cant then good luck and have fun.. otherwise i'll see you all there..

[embi]

So can someone sum up the details for this meet??

6:30pm under the big screen at Fed Square
Dinner is at ???
and any other details??

[PiroStitch]

Does anybody have any ideas for dinner? I'm not sure what the preference is and I'm guessing when people show up, they'll be hungry

After dinner, wander down the back of Fed square, then head down towards Crown on Southbank side, but not going through Flinders Station this time.

[embi]

Oh and a formal intro of all members

[kipper]

Piro I say we walk to Docklands and take almost from bolty bridge -> melbourne city scape

just an idea.

[PiroStitch]

I'm up for that Question is would others be willing to walk from one end to the other end and not bolt?

[Jamie]

Its a fair walk down there, perhaps drive and meet up again down neat telstra dome.

If no football is on there is plenty of free parking.

If this is the case i might come down and meet up with you all after dinner.

[kipper]

Fair walk? It's all flat ground and it's not that far. Lazy bums.

[Jamie]

Fair walk? It's all flat ground and it's not that far. Lazy bums.

 LOL

With the way you lot walked last time (stopping to take pics every two steps) it would take 3 hours to get there!

[PiroStitch]

Actions in previous meetings are not allowed to be used as a benchmark for future meetings

[gstark]

Have fun, y'all

[Greg B]

Have fun people, I will be there in spirit.

[resnikov]

Agghh work need me to work late tonight, so no first meet for me.

Hopefully I will be ale to make the next one.

Have fun

[PiroStitch]

thanks all.

Resnikov, that's alright and all the best with the new addition coming soon

[kipper]

Greg's piking again!

[Deano]

Greg's piking again!

I tried to convince him to join us but he gave me a (very appealing) story about a comfy chair and a bottle of red.

Cheers
Dean

[kipper]

Yes, red has that sort of affect


The weather is picking up, clouds are shifting and the sun is out.

[Hudo]

Sorry guys,

I've had a model fly into town on short notice and I need to have a pre shoot meeting with her. The only time available is tonight. Have a great shoot and we'll see you all at the next one and look forward to seeing some of the pics.

Mark

[Aussie Dave]

I wish I could make it to tonight's fun. I work in the heart of the Melb CBD and I'm currently looking out the window to blue skies and an encouraging sun.....should be a great sunset !

For all those going tonight, enjoy the night and make sure you ALL take plenty of photos to show those that could not make it, what they missed out on

ENJOY.....

[embi]

Well I have just got home from work in the city.

Got up this morning at 4am and I'm stuffed....have no fear though I will (with the better half) be still going tonight.

[Alex]

It was an excellent meet. I really enjoyed it. A big thank you to Wayne (PiroStitch) for taking the initiative to organising it. Dinner was superb also. Unfortunately we seem to have lost Dean and Mike midway somewhere, hope they had a good time where ever they ended up.

Birddog: Thank you for the batteries and charger and Genji (ThaI) thank you for delivering them to me.

Dean: Thank you for the "Next Venue" bag, it's fantastc. I now need to buy more gear to compensate for all those empty compartments.

Hope to see you all again soon.

Cheers
Alex

[cameraguy21773]

Dean & I went where we thought the rest of you were going, to shoot the fire show at the Crown. We shot the city from several places along the water there and then perched on the bridge so we could take in a number of the towers (?). I used a 12mm and I think Dean was using 24mm, at least in the beginning. I got some keepers and a few of Dean's will be superb with that extra resolution. Some of the large flame ups blew the frame out but I did not want to stop down to far.

[Alex]

Good on you, Mike and Dean.

We never made it that far. We took time taking photos near Fed. Square and then crossed the road to take a few from the bridge, came down and took some more photos near the river and art centre. Following that, everyone felt pretty tired and we called it a night.

Have a good stay, Mike. Very nice to meet you.

Alex

[Deano]

Had a great meet. Good to meet you all. Mike and I got seperated from the rest of you at Fed Square and wandered down to Crown expecting to catch up with you all at the 10pm Flames. Anyhow, we got some good flame shots (to come). Hope you all had a good time and got some good shots.

Thanks to Wayne (Pirostitch) for organising the meet.

Here is the group at dinner.



Clockwise from front; Mark (Embi), Janette (Mrs Embi), Mike (cameraguy21773), Wayne (Pirostitch), Tai (Genji), Ray (Baboo), Thai (redline - face concealed), Alex and Darryl (kipper).

Cheers
Deano

[Greg B]

Good work all. Yes, I piked. (And I think a couple of others said they were going to be there too? Stormy for example [who called me a big girl's blouse for not making the previous meet])

Anyway, looking forward to seeing some photos.

[stormygirl]

Good work all. Yes, I piked. (And I think a couple of others said they were going to be there too? Stormy for example [who called me a big girl's blouse for not making the previous meet])

Anyway, looking forward to seeing some photos.

Guilty Greg! I sent my apologies to Piro to pass on to everyone. I have pulled a muscle in my neck causing a headache, and didn't think it wise to be out in the cold. Tired and miserable too, so not pleasant company!

I'm looking forward to seeing the pics, and hopefully we can tee up another one during day light savings and get some dusk shots!

[kipper]

Seeing as Tai (Redline) was blocked in the above shot. Here is one that I prepared earlier.

D70
50MM F1.4
ISO800
1/30th
F1.6

[kipper]

So Greg, how was that red, and who won on Strictly Dancing?

[Deano]

Here's one of the Crown Flame Show.



Larger here

Not entirely happy with the colous. Working in aRGB in PS/CS this looks much more colourful. Assign sRGB then save as jpg realy zaps the colour. Had to add 15% saturation just to get this which is still not right. What am I doing wrong? May have to go back and read the colour management threads again.

Cheers
Dean

[kipper]

Dean work in aRGB and keep your PSD file in aRGB. Then when you want to put it to the web, don't do assign but do convert and then use Save For Web.

I can't really notice any difference between the two now.

[kipper]

Wish I had my kit lens with me. Kind of found it hard to get what I wanted in the frame from the vantage points that we were using. Guess I'll have to go out again when I get it back.