Photo Group Guidance
The Photography Group meets every other month to discuss member images on the current theme. These images are stored in a shared album, dedicated to the theme, on AOPR's Google Photos account.
Two different people run the meeting: the Theme Host and the Producer.
The Theme Host leads the meeting and the discussion. The Producer keeps strict time and displays the images.
Meeting Flow
After some brief Photo Group business, the Theme Host starts the Lightening Round: five minutes for one image from each attendee, in random order. If the discussion is lively, the Producer may extend discussion for another five minutes or arrange for the group to circle back to that image after the lightening round.
After the Lightening Round, discussion will turn to other uploaded images as nominated by those in attendance.
With ten minutes remaining, we pick a new theme and theme host for the next meeting and set a date and time.
All images and discussion must adhere to the AOPR Code of Conduct.
Themes
A theme could be an idea, a subject, a technique - anything that catches fire with the group. Most importantly, (a) it must be specific and (b) have won the heart of someone who agrees to be the Theme Host.
Theme choice doesn't have to be unanimous. If it doesn't move you, sit it out; you don't have to submit an image although you may find that attending the next meeting yields surprising insights.
Theme Host
The Theme Host "owns" the theme; tasks include
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attend and lead the next meeting.
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create a blurb explaining the theme for the web master to post on the site
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ask the web master to create a shared album for this theme on Google Photos and provide its link.
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help publicize the meeting by getting posted in AOPR newsletter and sending notification emails.
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curate the images by encouraging members to stay on theme and select their primary image.
There is no permanent theme host. The host should be different each meeting.
Meeting Producer
The Producer handles the meeting logistics such as
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starting the zoom call (when appropriate),
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keeping time and the meeting on schedule,
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picking names in random order for the Lightening Round,
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displaying the album images
The Producer is a semi-permanent role; it may be delegated to another person when the regular producer is unavailable.
Upload Your Images
To participate, upload your images (max of 3 images please) to the theme's shared album.
Identity one of them as your primary image (see below) for discussion during the Lightening Round.
Every image must relate to the theme. You will be asked how your image relates to the theme if it is not abundantly obvious so think about that carefully before you upload it.
The web master created the album for this theme on AOPR's Google Photos account. A link to the album is in the theme description on the Photography Group page.
The following YouTube video explains how to upload your images to the album.
Identify Your Primary Image
Add a comment that says "My Primary" to the image that you want to discuss in the "Lightening Round". The comment is an icon in the lower right corner of a selected image in Google Photos:
Give proper image credit
We assume the image is yours if you uploaded it. If it is not, you must add a proper attribution which you can do in a comment.