The Jacksonville Photography Meetup Group

Strobist in the Park (San Marco)

January 20 · 4:00 PM
Balis Park

First Strobist Meetup of the New Year. 2013 is off to a great start.

We'll be shooting in and around San Marco Square.

The San Marco area is a beautiful historic part of town that has many beautiful areas to shoot in, for example: specialty boutiques, retail shops with nice store fronts, movie theater, restaurants, Balis Park (Gazebo), Lions Fountain and Preservation Hall (1652 Atlantic Blvd, Jax, FL 32207.) We'll be wondering around shooting in various areas. Feel free to bring your own model and other models will be invited as well. After shooting.... for those who'd like to stick around we'll grab some dinner in the area.

Strobist Meetup Requirements and Suggestions:

1. You must bring your own gear, lighting, triggers, receivers, camera, batteries, memory cards.... etc. JPMG does not have gear to loan out.

2. If you do not have your own gear and still want to participate you are more than welcome to shoot using natural light, watch the photographers shooting with strobes or volunteer to be a VAL (voice activated light stand).

If you are not familiar with Strobist please review this blog - it is an excellent resource and a great place to learn the basics.... and feel free to do additional research.

http://strobist.blogspot.com/2006/02/welcome-to-strobist.html

Speaking of learning.... Newbies are welcome, however, I would like to disclose up front that this is not a class/training session. The meetup is being designed for photographers to use their gear and off camera flash to create amazing images. Newbies.... Fair warning.... Once you see how lighting impacts your photos you'll be hooked. :-D

In addition to reviewing the Strobist blog, mentioned above, I would recommend reviewing posing and composition.

Friendly reminders.... Please be courteous to local businesses, ask for permission to shoot inside and please try not to block any entrances.

Models are welcome and encouraged. I would recommend wearing something that you would like to add to your portfolio. **All strobist meetups going forward will always be TFP - Time for Prints (in this case digital copies)

TPF means the model provides their time and modeling skills, in exchange the photographer having a person to practice their photography with. then they will provide digital copies of the images created. Models and photographers are responsible for their own model releases and exchanging information to deliver photos. You may also use Facebook as a method of delivering photos. We also encourage the photos to be posted here. Photographers - if you shoot with a model please make a commitment to provide them with a few images.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me via email. Thank you!

This link has a little map of Balis Park.

http://residentnews.net/2012/12/06/year/

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Mychael A. Bennett

It will be good to see everyone again.

0 · Yesterday
Fred

Any chance for another strobist meetup? :-)

1 · 3 days ago
Ed Wright

Excellent. Lots of learning and lots of fun!!!

0 · January 21
Michael Kelly

Always a good time.

0 · January 21
Thomasine Glover

Great location!

0 · January 20
Fred

Strobist in the Park (San Marco) was great. It was a pleasure working with the other photographers, and a special thanks goes out to all the models who participated. ;-)

2 · January 20
Kathryn Abbruzzese

Great, wish I could have stayed longer...

1 · January 20
Edwin

Learn a few good pointers. Thanks!!!

1 · January 20
Michelle T.

Awesome event! Thank you to everyone for coming out and playing with light!!!

1 · January 20
Hugh Hopkins

great times to learn

0 · January 20
Thomasine Glover

I really enjoyed the experience! Thanks to everyone that used me as a model today. I'll definitely come back whenever needed :) My email address is [masked] - I can't wait to see the shots!

1 · January 20
Dawn~

Great afternoon for a photo shoot!

1 · January 20
kamaran

Was great to see.

0 · January 20
Stephen DuBois

good location

0 · January 20
Cindy McIntyre

It was great. I learned a lot and met a lot of photographers..

2 · January 20
Michael Kelly

1999 San Marco Blvd is the address for your GPS.

0 · January 20
Michelle T.

Cindy, I got your email but can't respond. Thx for bringing a model and she does not need to bring anything specific, she can wear anything she'ed like to add to her portfolio.
Thx!!!!! :)

1 · January 20
Larry Cirillo

not sure if anyone knows.. there is a cool fountain around the corner fromt this park.. did some research and found out that san marco used to be a park hub.. tons of parks mini parks at least.. just a suggestion if it gets too crowded there.

4 · January 16
- Michelle T.
  
  I've been to a little park that sounds like this one. Very pretty area. Thanks for the heads up!!
  
  0 · January 17
- David Carter
  
  Yeah we rode around there Friday night there's parks everywhere... At the end of almost every street north of the square there's a mini park at the river...
  
  0 · January 20
Catherine Longmire

Any idea how many models are coming? I just invted Emm today and she is coming :)

2 · January 17
- Michelle T.
  
  Please feel free to invite as many models that will come. Thx!!!
  
  1 · January 17
- Emily Pittman
  
  Yes I'm coming andd I'm trying to bring my friend Tiffany too! :))
  
  0 · January 20
Thomasine Glover

I would love to come and be a model. Can I help someone out?

2 · January 18
- Michelle T.
  
  Hi Thomasine, please feel free to come to this meetup as a model. Thanks for offering & look forward to seeing you there.
  
  1 · January 18