RIT Big Shot aka Photo Geek gathering. Last Thursday a bunch of us from work along with our better halves and friends went over to Schoen Place dressed in black, armed with flash lights, strobes, cameras and other flash devices. (The entire crowd together resembled a cult gathering.) The purpose was to participate in the annual RIT Big Shot (http://www.rit.edu/~bigshot/) which is a project to Paint with Light.

Inspired by the Sylvania Big Shot, this annual event invites community members to use handheld electronic flash units and flash lights to illuminate buildings while a single camera takes a picture with a timed exposure. We could see that a lot of planning and thought had gone into the event. Groups of people were instructed to light different parts of the landscape at different times.

Looking across from where the camera was.

Lighting the trees

A majority of the people were on the opposite bank from the camera (see the group of people in the Big Shot). A few folks, on the same side of the bank as the camera went first lighting the boat, followed by people across the bank, lighting the buildings in the foreground and lastly the people in the back lighting the trees. (We lit the trees between the two towers and would like to believe they're the best lit trees!)
The results are spectacular as you can see from this year's Big Shot Picture:

You can view past pictures at:
 http://www.rit.edu/~bigshot/all_photos_gallery/index.htm

You'll notice in the picture the variety of flash instruments our little group carried. From Joel's strobe lights , to Aaron's (Jenny's husband) ginormous flash light to my tiny little hand helds. And because we're border line geeks we experimented various ways use the flash units (aka have fun). I've never had so much fun, just standing around waving a flash light. I am so glad I work with such a fun bunch of people I call my friends. We regularly meet up outside of work too.

Lighting the group

Not so great attempts at lighting faces

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