Photowalking.org

Despite the 24degF temperature, 15 photographers met up for the 4th Salt Lake City Photowalk.

Temple Square, the headquarters of the LDS church world-wide, attracts thousand of people each holiday season for the hundreds of thousands of lights put up by volunteers. The lights come on around 5:30, at the tail end of the blue light, so the number of shots with nice skies is a testament to folks coming prepared and ready to make pictures.

About half of the team was new; our Flickr pool now has 40 members, which is fantastic. Newcomer Jeremy knows the guy who invented the bubble lights used in the reflecting pool. We worked on a team photo with 4 pocket wizards and strobes, but it was too cold for our subjects to keep posing while we refined the idea.

We surrendered in under 2 hours, which was pretty long, considering the conditions. Next month we are going on a PhotoStandAround, as Rich has found a space where we can set up three areas to work with strobes of all sizes. We will also designate Nikon and Canon tables where folks can test-drive each other’s exotic gear, like lensbabies, ringlights, and specialty filters. We should have done it before Christmas, so everyone could add stuff to their holiday wish-lists. Wishing all a happy holiday season from SLC.

Popularity: 11% [?]