On April 27 the Mimosa 4-H photography club kicked off its second meeting with a bunch of business, the most prominent being the beef barbecue fundraiser coming soon.
The evening included introductions of new members, with a review of topics for the benefit of thee newcomers.
The leaders played a video depicting the lesson of the week: Exposure. After the video, members did what they do best; learn to do by doing. We crowded around a series of stations set up in the basement of Mimosa Church, all of which had a different type of light, and as each required different types of settings on our cameras.
Once members’ ingenuity was adequately stretched to its limits, the meeting progressed to the final activity of the night: Displaying our homework – snapshots for all to see via projector.
The pictures we saw varied from comical to heart-achingly gorgeous, and the slide show was interspersed with not only discussions for improvement, but plenty of oohs and ahhs as well.
With a new assignment for the next meeting in mind, we recited the 4-H motto “learn to do by doing” and parted for the night, undoubtedly full to bursting with new ideas for pictures that would keep us busy until the next meeting.
submitted by Brittany Thomson
