It was certainly cold, but many members attended sporting hats and puffer jackets, showing their passion to learn photography!
Joel covered the basics of photography and led us on a walk around the lake and down into the creek to experiment with light painting, night photography with a spotlight and photographing the stars.
He provided this pdf of the instructions
Joel also talked about calibrating your Diopter. Here is a link to some tips on that: ‘How to calibrate your Diopter’.
Although the tutorial uses a Canon as the example, the general principles should apply to other brands.
Joel posted about the event on his facebook page:

See more photos from Joel and club members on our flickr gallery.