Mission Alert: A lazy Sunday TODAY (Oct 12) @ 5PM downtown!
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That’s right – we’re NOT light painting this time! This is a plain-vanilla downtown photo mission. We’ll be wandering around, so PLEASE CALL my cell if you’re planning on joining us after the 5PM start time. My cell is 416-825-5825.
For this mission, we’re recommending you bring:
- Any type of camera
- Charged batteries and empty memory cards
- Water and snacks, since we’ll be out for 4-5 hours
- Patience, good attitude, and a desire to learn and have fun
You may want to bring along a tripod if you’re not confident in your camera’s low-light abilities, since we’ll be out after dusk.
Rendezvous point is the giant mushroom at the Toronto Sculpture Garden. This is across from St. James Church right at King and Church. It’s a few blocks east of the King subway station.
Matt and I will be under the giant mushroom at 5PM. We’ll hang around for about 30 minutes, then we’ll be going wherever the phototography takes us.
That’s it for now. Again our apologies for the short notice. We’re aiming to give at least 5 days notice for all missions, but Thanksgiving kind of screwed us up for this one.
We’ll see you under the mushroom!
Mission Report: Short-notice light painting III
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Many thanks to Berto, Geoff, Alex, Mary, Donofun, Asha and Rishi for kicking some ass at Friday’s mission!
Mission Alert: Short-notice Light Painting III, today (Friday) @ 8PM!
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Apologies for the short notice. Thanksgiving has messed up our scheduling here. Anyhow.
Tonight we will be trying out some light painting YET AGAIN in Magwood Park near Humbercrest and St. Marks, starting at 8ish. See photomissisons.ca for examples of what we’re going for and more details.
** YOU DO NOT NEED A CAMERA FOR THIS MISSION! **
When light painting, we’re usually only shooting with one camera, but everyone gets the credit. It’s all about the painting – the stuff behind the camera is the easy part.
For this mission, we’re recommending you bring:
- Flashlights! LEDs! Lasers! We need as many different kinds of lights as possible.
- Water (beer) and snacks, since we’ll be out for 4-5 hours.
- Patience, good attitude, and a desire to learn and have fun
- Optional: Camera with manual controls (not usually needed, but it is to do light painting)
- Optional: Tripod, if you have one
- Optional: Cable release/remote control for your camera, if you have one
- Optional: A wide-angle lens, since it’s tough to know what’s in frame in the dark
Matt, Brett and I should be there for 8ish. Feel free to call or email for more info. See you there.
Matt Watson and Jeff Higgins
Mission: Light Painting II – Report
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Good work people! We managed to finish the prelude to Light Man before the weather turned on us. The results are great – have a look for yourself. No mission this weekend – stay tuned for the next mission alert some time next week!
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Upcoming missions (suggest missions here)
Posted by Jeff | Filed under mission planning
So we’ve got a few locations in mind for the next couple of missions. Let us know what you think, and post your own suggestions here.
- Toronto Zombie Walk (Sunday, October 19th)
- Canada Wonderland’s Haunt (Any Friday, Saturday, or Sunday in October or November, it seems). I’ve gotten some awesome shots at the Haunt (formerly FearFest) before.
- Don Valley Brickworks
Ok peeps, where do you want to mission to? Let us know in the comments.
Mission Alert: Light Paining II this Saturday at 8PM
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The invites have been sent out on Facebook! Contact me if you’re not in the group but want to get invited. This week we will be trying out some light painting again in Magwood Park near Humbercrest and St. Marks, starting at 8ish. See this post for examples of what we’re going for. For this mission, we’re recommending you bring:
- Camera (these are useful for taking photos)
- Tripod, if you have one
- Cable release/remote control for your camera, if you have one
- A wide-angle lens, since it’s tough to know what’s in frame in the dark
- Flashlights! LEDs! Lasers! We need as many kinds of coloured lights as possible.
- Water and snacks, since we’ll be out for 4-5 hours.
- Patience and a good attitude
We’ll be meeting here. Matt and I should be there for 8ish. Feel free to call or email for more info (416-825-5825, jefe46@gmail.com). We’re looking forward to the first official group photomission! See you there.
Next mission to be announced soon
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We’ll try to give you more than one hour’s notice this time. Tentative mission date: Saturday, September 27 at 8:00PM.
Mission: Light Painting – Report
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Join us Sept 19 at 9PM for the first photomission!
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What’s a photomission? Get some photographers together, pick a location, and get some kick-ass shots by learning and riffing off each other. All skill levels are welcome, so don’t be afraid.
Matt Watson and I will be trying out some light painting tonight in Magwood Park near Humbercrest and St. Marks, starting at oh, maybe 9ish. So get out your camera, grab your tripod if you’ve got one, and head down to these co-ordinates tonight:
That’s the playground near the entrance to the Magwood Park off of Pasadena Gardens. This is were we’ll be starting, but we may move, so give me (Jeff) a call at 416-825-5825 and I can email you updated co-ordinates (or, like, tell you where we are, but that’s so pre-iPhone).
Also, bring some flashlights and multi-coloured LEDs and laser pointers… we’ll need as many as we can get.
What the hell is light painting?
Alright hope to see you there! Stay tuned for more photomissions happening soon!
Jeff