Here's something for those camera clubs out looking for a challenge night idea.
Over the last 18 months, Poker Night has become one of the most attended events in our club since we’ve been on the virtual platform (Zoom) because of the pandemic. We invite our members to join us as for a night of what we call group therapy by just being together and to have a night of fun.
For those that haven’t had a Poker Night before, you may ask "So what is Poker Night?”
With that said, Poker Night is a Challenge Night where we want our members to go out and take five (5) pictures from the following ten (10) categories (e.g. for our upcoming January poker night, we’re using these topics):
• Something that involves Street Photography
• Something Moody
• Something that you Don’t Use Any More
• Something that you can See Through
• Something Abandoned
• Something with a Chair
• Something with a Tail
• Something with Intentional Camera Movement (ICM)
• Something Leaning
• President’s Choice Topic – Something That Shows the End of COVID
1) Only one image is to be submitted from each of the 5 selected categories – giving them 5 images total (remember, only 1 image per category is allowed, and 5 images total).
2) NO OLD PICTURES FROM THE ARCHIVES (this is a club challenge for challenge night, so only images from date time frame we give them are to be used).
3) We ask our members to plan on presenting their images on the ZOOM platform. Although, if they prefer, you can send me their images to me by the night before, and I load them for presenting (as some members struggle with screen sharing). Once I receive them, I’ll send them an email to confirm that I received their images.
4) As their 5 images are shown at Poker Night, they are dealt 5-poker cards (using an online poker app). They will have the opportunity to hold them, or to draw up to 5 more poker cards. If they are unable to attend, they can still participate by sending in 5-images by the night before. During Poker Night, we will draw “one hand” for them and those will be their cards for the night. Because they’re not present, we’re unable to hold and redraw any cards on their behalf.
5) At the end of the night, the one with the best hand wins the pot, although we generally awarding prizes for the top two (2) Poker Hands.
6) Remember, you don’t need to have the best pictures to win this challenge, just the Best Poker Hand – so ask them to be creative and have fun.
UniqueShot wrote:
Here's something for those camera clubs out looking for a challenge night idea.
Over the last 18 months, Poker Night has become one of the most attended events in our club since we’ve been on the virtual platform (Zoom) because of the pandemic. We invite our members to join us as for a night of what we call group therapy by just being together and to have a night of fun.
For those that haven’t had a Poker Night before, you may ask "So what is Poker Night?”
With that said, Poker Night is a Challenge Night where we want our members to go out and take five (5) pictures from the following ten (10) categories (e.g. for our upcoming January poker night, we’re using these topics):
• Something that involves Street Photography
• Something Moody
• Something that you Don’t Use Any More
• Something that you can See Through
• Something Abandoned
• Something with a Chair
• Something with a Tail
• Something with Intentional Camera Movement (ICM)
• Something Leaning
• President’s Choice Topic – Something That Shows the End of COVID
1) Only one image is to be submitted from each of the 5 selected categories – giving them 5 images total (remember, only 1 image per category is allowed, and 5 images total).
2) NO OLD PICTURES FROM THE ARCHIVES (this is a club challenge for challenge night, so only images from date time frame we give them are to be used).
3) We ask our members to plan on presenting their images on the ZOOM platform. Although, if they prefer, you can send me their images to me by the night before, and I load them for presenting (as some members struggle with screen sharing). Once I receive them, I’ll send them an email to confirm that I received their images.
4) As their 5 images are shown at Poker Night, they are dealt 5-poker cards (using an online poker app). They will have the opportunity to hold them, or to draw up to 5 more poker cards. If they are unable to attend, they can still participate by sending in 5-images by the night before. During Poker Night, we will draw “one hand” for them and those will be their cards for the night. Because they’re not present, we’re unable to hold and redraw any cards on their behalf.
5) At the end of the night, the one with the best hand wins the pot, although we generally awarding prizes for the top two (2) Poker Hands.
6) Remember, you don’t need to have the best pictures to win this challenge, just the Best Poker Hand – so ask them to be creative and have fun.
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Wow... Great idea.... Sounds like fun.
Love this idea... sent it on to our Club President.
I like it too. What poker app do you recommend?
Being a Mac user, I downloaded a video poker app from the App Store. As far as how we use it, we only focus on the cards and not the other features that the App provides.
Once a member shows their 5-images, I will then screen share the poker app so everyone can see the cards.
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Loc: Santa Ynez, CA 93460
But what constitutes a best hand?
That's your call depending on how many members participate. If you're a small club, you might start with a pair, medium to larger clubs may want to Jacks or Better. Attached is what our club uses.
Poker night can be a fast pace night as a participants only gets around 30 to 45 seconds for image x 5 images + drawing the cards can be around 5-minutes. If you have 30 to 40 members participate, you can be a couple of hours doing this. Although those crucial hours are great for networking and having fun.
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