The Tulsa Digital Photography Meetup Group was held at the Tulsa Zoo on June 13th. The event this time was a Photography Scavenger Hunt. At a zoo, you might wonder if that means trying to capture a list of photos of animals. However, the goal was to use a long list of photography techniques. Marty Colman (The Napkin Dad) gave each person the following list and a few minutes of instruction before sending us out in small groups to try to capture the list:

• Framing – Creating a focal point by framing with other objects
• Leading Lines – Foreground lines that pull the eye into the image
• High Key – Images that concentrate on the paler tones using flat lighting to avoid shadows
• Low Key – Images where the details are in shadows
• Shadows – Images depicting the shapely absence of light
• Frozen Action – Images where the action is stopped
• Movement Blur – Showing the presence or illusion of motion
• Abstract – Images are based strongly on lines, shapes, colors and form
• Silhouettes – Using backlighting to leave the subject blacked out
• Partial Portrait – Show only part of your subject and still convey a sense of their personality
• Negative Space – Accentuate your subject by using empty or monotonous space
• Fill the Frame – Fill the complete frame of your image with your subject.
• Ground Level – Gaining perspective from the ground up
• Monochromatic – Color on color, tone on tone without being black & white
• Reflections – The beauty of reflective surfaces
• Depth of Field – Only a distinct slice of your scene is in-focus, while the rest is blurred out
• Hyperfocal Distance – Foreground & distance in sharp focus
• Strong Diagonal – Using diagonal lines to pull the eye through an image
• Wide Angle – Using low focal length for increasing perspective
• Macro – Either your macro setting or to crop your image to get in close to your subject
• Repeating Elements – Two or more of the same object

I did not cover the entire list, but I did shoot a reasonable number of photos using those techniques. I plan to keep this list and use it again — possibly for a photowalk.

Here are some of my photos from the event:
Macro and Shallow Depth of Field

Repeating Elements

Monochromatic

Framing

More photo from the meetup: