What is it?
While YouTube and other web sites have popularized the moving image, StillOut is a club for those who appreciate the still image. We welcome all LGBT and affirming members of the Charlotte metro community. StillOut is a program of the LGBT Community Center of Charlotte.
Mission:
Enrich our lives and the LGBT community through photographic arts.
Objectives:
1. Improve our photography skills through exchanging ideas, technical knowledge and artistic insight with each other.
2. Document LGBT history in the Charlotte area through our lenses.
3. Support and promote the LGBT Community Center of Charlotte.
4. Be available as a resource to our ‘family’ for their photography needs.
5. Enrich the LGBT community by creating photographic art.
6. Make friends.
7. Create photography field trips to interesting sites.
8. Have fun!
Membership
The club is open to anyone who is interested in photography, be they LGBT or our straight friends and allies; All skill levels from beginner to professional; From point and shoot to SLR.
The club will meet regularly at the Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Charlotte. Initially, we may meet every couple of weeks until the club is well organized. Afterward, we will meet monthly and communicate regularly through email and an online discussion forum.
Individual dues will be $40 annually, on a calendar year basis, with quarterly prorating. Student dues are free with valid ID. (Students under 18 must have parental permission.) Dues are paid to the Lesbian and Gay Community Center of Charlotte.
New members get three months free membership!
Members receive:
- A free webspace on My.StillOut.org to create a web portfolio and to list and promote photography services.
- Access to our members only web forum, where you may post photos for feedback and critique.
- Ability to participate in our annual StillOut Gallery show at The GBT Community Center of Charlotte.
Potential Activities:
- Spring field trip to Biltmore to photograph the gardens.
- Portrait photography workshop.
- ‘Family’ portraits fundraiser for the Center, either as a standalone event, or preferably in conjunction with another event (for example, a Tea Dance).
- Lecture: Ins and out of buying camera equipment.
- Field trips to Light Factory exhibits
- Paint the Town Pink: An Urban Portraits Field Trip
- Photographing a house properly for faster sale workshop
- Figure study workshop
- Pride Event Photography
- Studio lighting demonstration and hands-on workshop
- Your ideas here!!!
