July Group Shoot: Mission San Luis Rey
Date: Saturday July 10, 2010 
Time: meet at 8:30am, group shoot at 8:45am

GALLERY: http://www.sandiegodslr.com/?q=gallery&g2_itemId=50505

(from wikipedia): Mission San Luis Rey de Francia (French: La Mission de Saint Louis, roi de France), also known as Mission San Luis Rey or San Luis Rey Mission Church, was founded on June 13, 1798 in coastal Las Californias, near the present day U.S. city of Oceanside in California. The local Quechnajuichom Native American tribe became known as the Luiseño 'Mission Indians', after the Mission's 'Luis'. The current church, built in 1811 is the third church on this location. It is a National Historic Landmark, for its pristine example of a Spanish Mission Church complex.

Also, during weekend, the Mission is hosting "Christmas in July" with over 170 booths of artisans, and other vendors on it's vast grounds. This is one of the most striking Missions in San Diego, and the grounds are well kept, with lots of photographic opportunities in the beautiful cemetery and the main buildings.

Directions: From Interstate 5
Exit Highway 76. Head East approximately 4 miles to Rancho del Oro exit. Mission will be on your left. 

Mission San Luis Rey
4050 Mission Avenue
Oceanside, CA 92057

Mission's Website: http://www.sanluisrey.org/

Lunch: Capozzoli's Pizzeria @ 11:30am
3915 Mission Avenue
Oceanside, CA 92058-7801
(760) 433-5400

Hope everyone has a wonderful July 4th weekend!

To find a fireworks show near you…..
http://www.sandiego.com/independence-day/july-fourth

Happy shooting. 

Anyone want to try an on-going excercise.  A variation to "The Photo below me..." game. But for this one where The photo below me... is an example of a Capture Technique, Principal or "Rule". 

For those who are not familiar with the Photo below me game; It is quite simple, you will run into them across the net. 

A photo fulfilling the request of the last post in the thread is linked to by anyone.  That person, just under the Photo they linked, makes request of the next photo to be posted.  They use the line "The photo below me is ..."  ... is what they would actually like to see of the photo.

You can use any photo you may have (you do not have to go out and shoot a shot to meet the request) somewhere. You can not fulfill your own request. 

This little game is another means to have shots seen by others and sometimes help with organization as you go back through the 40K of photos trying to meet the request (OMG, why am I keeping this?). 

If we keep it within the Techniques and Principles of taking images, new to dSLR owners might benefit by seeing them in practice.  It might even help a bit more if the poster added a short (and I mean short) paragraph why their shot fits the requested technique/Principal.

Note to those new to grabbing images:  Rules, Techniques and Principles should be used as guidelines.  Use them up to the point you know how to break them.  Apply the idea behind them, but break them as needed.   

Some examples of Technique, Principle or Rules might be:     

• Active Space - Is the subject moving into or exiting the Frame (give it some room either way).
• Perspective/Vanishing Point - You see that way over there?
• Leading Lines - Like a shepard lead the viewer through the shot to your subject.
• Frame the Subject - Window Frames, Trees, Doorways...You know the drill.
• Rule of Thirds - Use the rule of thirds.
• Subject Centered - A shot with the Subject Centered that don't suck.
• Golden Ratio - I don't know; Some stuff a dude named DiVinci studied.
• Fill the Frame - Booya, In your Face.  Make the Subject fill the Shot.
• Minimalism - Simple as it gets. 
• Negative Space - See Minimalism but with less stuff in the shot.
• Horizontal Lines - Use horizontal line to emphasis your subject.
• Vertical Lines - You know like Telephone Poles, Trees and Fences type stuff (all in rows of course).
• Diagonal Lines - Use Diagonals to steer the viewer in the right direction.
• Tilted Horizon - Intentionally disorient the viewer with a tilted shot.
• Symmetry - Why does the left half of the shot look like the right?

Let's see if we can get some players...I start with the post after this.  If you use the Post New Comment box (don't reply to the post above you) we can keep the thread from getting severly indented.

The photo below me has a Tilted Horizon...

Some fun events happening this weekend.  Don't forget the Picture Pals get-together on Saturday at the Antique Gas & Steam Engine Museum in Vista.   Happy shooting!