Comments on: 5 Steps To Starting A Photography Group In Your Area

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:56:30 +0000

I’ve been considering forming a group for quite a while that would refer “double bookings” out especially in the case of weddings. I’d love to hear some thoughts on whether this might work or not… I might keep the group small and private ad it is sometimes hard to refer those you don’t know very well.

Craig
http://www.lusterstudios.com

By: Steve Geronazzo

Steve Geronazzo — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 10:58:48 +0000

We recently started a photography group at work and it went pretty well. We decided to have a session from January to June since many people will be away on vacation and will start up again in September. We meet every second Tuesday and structured our group around the principle of alternating one outdoors photo shoot and one theoretical meeting indoors. We use YAHOO Groups as a central part of our photography group since it has an agenda, albums, links, messages and places to attach documents relevant to photography or any other subject. The YAHOO account is free and can be open to the public or reserved to the group’s members.

Steve Geronazzo
Quebec City

By: Author: natalie norton

Author: natalie norton — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:28:22 +0000

Joel,

You could contact me through my blog and I could get you the info on Jan’s group that meets here on the North Shore.

Natalie

By: K.Ghraoui

K.Ghraoui — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:53:38 +0000

i just started a group last week, on flickr. and inviting people to make the group bigger.
so the article came in the right timing.
i am located in Doha. Qatar which there is no much people are doing this, so i thought of starting one.

thank you

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:57:10 +0000

I started a small group using FaceBook three months ago. We are ten members now and hope to grow. Once a month we get together at a location and shoot to our hearts content. Afterwards we post our best ‘5′ on the group page and have a little competition. The winner gets to chose the next location for the following month, a little prize and their winning picture on the group page for the month. We don’t meet at the same place every month, just get together for coffee/tea afterward and talk about the day and get to know each other.

I’ve contacted a local professional who’s willing to do a lecture of sorts and an outing with us for minimal cost. But getting everyone to commit time and money is difficult. Anyone have any other suggestions as to how to increase the membership and get everyone more involved?

If you’re in the Southwestern Ontario area you are more than welcome to join my group for the fun of it!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=62530886911.

By: Polly

Polly — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:41:04 +0000

I belong to 4 photography groups in the Tampa Bay area. One if for general photography, one is for wedding and events, one for models and finally a strobist group. I am an assistant organizer to 3 of the four groups. Ours are all organized through Meetup.com. I have met some great friends and some fabulous photographers through these groups and highly recommend everyone checking that website for a photo group in your area.

By: Regina

Regina — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:27:42 +0000

Thanks for this. Although, I wish I had found this a few weeks ago. I had a local photographer contact me about starting a group in our area. I basically started the group just the way it was reviewed here. It is the only group of its kind in the area and so far we already have several people interested in being a part of this group. we are going out on our first meeting together in a couple of weeks. Thanks for the info here.

By: Serephinex

Serephinex — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:33:20 +0000

Natalie,
Thankyou so much for the tips! I’m an aspiring photographer and really would like to meet more photographers in the area.
May I suggest creating soem flyers and posting them in local photography shops/studios (with permission, ofcourse!) may be a good idea?
I really hope to get a group started for the summer! Possibly even a junior group (for those like myself who are under the age of 18) could be pretty creative. I’d love to see what a group of 8 or 9 teenagers could come up with :P

Thanks again for the tips!!

By: Caro

Caro — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:59:04 +0000

I have been wanting to do something like this for a while, and now you have made it look so easy I Am wondering why it has taken me so long!
Guess what I’ll be doing on the weekend…

By: Tony W

Tony W — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:44:48 +0000

doh stupid xhtml

http://www.a-p-s.org.au/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=123&Itemid=188