Location: 8000 Bee Ridge Rd, Sarasota, Grace Community Church ("Kids" building on the left as you enter)
Pre-Meeting at 5:15 pm
Topic: New Member Orientation: This presentation will be jam-packed with important and interesting information about our club and what the club has to offer its members. All NEW MEMBERS and those members who have never attended an Orientation are encouraged to attend.
Meeting wtih Guest Speaker Rob Palo at 6:30 pm
Topic: The Art of Long Exposure Photography
This is a pretty broad topic so Rob will be talking mostly about nighttime long exposure photography, which includes Light Trails, Steel Wool, and Cityscape.
Rob will also talk about how he got into photography and how he became obsessed with shooting long exposures at night.
Rob Palo's website and portfolio at www.robpalo.com.
Rob's Bio:
I'm proud to call myself a self-taught photographer. I started in 2018 by watching a TON of videos. Some might say I became a little obsessed! I started to learn about how to actually operate a camera, and about the intricacies of the “triangle of exposure”.
I decided that I wanted to learn how to expose photographs manually first. After watching videos for about five months, I was ready to go out and apply what I had learned through trial and error. At that time, I had a full-time job, a toddler, and another child on the way. Needless to say, I didn't have much time to shoot during the day. That is how I came to know and love long exposure photography.
With long exposure using Steel Wool and Light Trails being my favorites, I also made sure to dive into as many other genres as I could. Portraits, Family, Maternity, Weddings/Engagements, Corporate Headshots, Graduations, Sunrise & Sunsets, Bokeh, Depth of Field, Nature, Aerial photos and videos using Drones, Business Marketing content, and Street/Urban/Nightlife.
“I wasn’t born a photographer but the first time I picked up my camera a photographer was born.”
