December Meeting 11/21/2009
Looks like a return to the Corner Brewery for the December meeting. As Mike says: "This could be our Kristmas meeting! Usually people bring some kind of inexpensive photo related gift to exchange with another member for the Kristmas meeting." Where: Corner Brewery, Ypsilanti When: December 1st, 7pm Flickr discussion here. November Meeting 10/20/2009
The next meeting will be held at Heidelberg Rathskeller on North Main in downtown Ann Arbor, at 7pm on Tuesday November 3rd. Mike says: "Bring your whatever flash units and whatever weird diffusers or light shapers or whatever. You know it's not bright down in that place." Flickr discussion here. Cheap Shots II- Reuse/Reload 10/14/2009
Here is the first announcement for CS II, open only to participating members of the A3C3. Please Read Thoroughly. Ann Arbor Area Crappy Camera Club - ReArt Gallery Show Cheap Shots II -- Reuse/Reload -- January 4-31, 2010 at the ReArt Gallery at Recycle Ann Arbor, 2420 South Industrial Hwy. Premise: The A3C3 will be exhibiting over 2 dozen images taken by its members with cameras purchased from thrift shops,the recycle/reuse center, and saved from a landfill. Part of the A3C3's credo is the use of plastic and "crappy" cameras, though in the spirit of this show, many photographs were taken with decidedly un-crappy cameras that were purchased second-hand. The photos on exhibit will also be shown in recycled frames/glass that were obtained in the same way as the cameras. The show will be open to A3C3 members that are active locally (i.e., no internet-only participants). Please submit jpgs of the images you wish to submit for the show. Maximum size 800 pixels on the longest side. Send no more than 3 images to me at mfobrien@gmail.com by November 15. You will be notified by December 5, as to what images have been accepted for the exhibit. Please indicate the type of camera used to take the photograph, and how you obtained it. Display Requirements: 1. Image may be any size from 2.25" square to a maximum of 11x14" 2. Image may be a silver print, C-print, or ink-jet, or any alternative process such as cyanotype or polaroid. 3. Image MUST be mounted in a recycled frame - not one that you purchased new and are reusing, but a frame that was purchased used at a thrift shop, Kiwanis, RAA, or similar place. 4. Frames may be any size from 5x7" to 16x20", and they may be black, white, chrome, or natural wood color. Frame material may be wood or metal. Feel free to repaint used frames. 5. Overmat should be white or off-white, or black, and should compliment the image and frame. Exhibitor Information: I will need the following to accompany each image selected for exhibition -- Exhibitor name, address, phone number, web site, and email address. Image title, final image size, frame size, display medium, camera used, and price, if for sale. And... There is no particular theme for the images -- I will leave it to the exhibitors to send me the usual excellent results that you obtain from the cameras. Variety is good, and this will be an excellent opportunity to show your work in a completely different venue than the usual art gallery/coffeehouse/museum setting. In the spirit of recycling and reusing, I also ask that you consider the price that you wish to sell your image for. This will be a different setting, exposing many people to photography that might never have gone to a gallery before. My rule of thumb is... what would YOU really pay? I'd like to keep the works below $75, in the $35 - $75 range. Also, I would like submission of images that have not already been shown in previous A3C3 shows. Fees Our only cost for the exhibit is $15. Any images sold will stay on the wall until the end of the exhibit, and a 20% commission will be given to Recycle Ann Arbor. RAA will handle the transactions. JUDGING: Submitted jpegs will be assembled into an online gallery where A3C3 members can rate them on a scale from 1-5. Highest ranking images will get first choice for show, and so forth, until we have enough images for the space available. Obviously, I want good work from you people! Thanks, Mark Flickr discussion thread here. October Meeting 09/21/2009
October's meeting will be at Mark O'Brien's house. In Mark's words: "Okay crappy shooters... this month we are doing Avatar Night, and will be using lighting equipment. Bring your own cameras, favorite libations, and film, and meet at my house on Tuesday October 6th at 7 pm, where we can do some of our usual meetup things, with the added feature of me setting up a studio in my garage. I'll have backdrop(s), cool lights, and flash, umbrellas, reflectors, etc. We can shoot each other, but the main purpose to to give some people the opportunity to try out shooting in this situation, with crappy cameras. The new deck should be finished by then, so people can hang out there. Meeting at 2104 Needham Road, Ann Arbor. Please park down the street past the "no parking signs." " Flickr discussion here. September Meeting 08/18/2009
September's meeting will be on Tuesday 1st at 7pm. Venue is yet to be determined, so feel free to chip in to the Flickr discussion if you have a strong opinion. Once again, Mike will be taking a group shot with one of his crappy (or not so crappy) cameras, so comb your hair and wash your face! August's A3C3 Meeting 07/22/2009
August's meeting will be at the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti, on Tuesday August 4th at 7pm. A3C3 at the Townie Street Party 07/09/2009
The Crappy Camera Club will have a table in the Creative Connections tent at the Ann Arbor Townie Street Party on July 13th. Come on over and say hello! July Meeting 06/17/2009
From Mike Myers: June Meeting 05/17/2009
June's meeting will be Tuesday 2nd at 7pm, once again at the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti. May Meeting 04/23/2009
May's meeting will be on Tuesday May 5th, 7pm. Depending on the weather we'll either be meeting in the beer garden at the Corner Brewery in Ypsilanti, or in the Rathskeller Bar at the Heidelberg in downtown Ann Arbor. Visit the discussion in our Flickr group to find out more. |