Hi All,
Here's a few notes from our ESIG last night, along with the links to the photographers we looked at. Here's the recording of the meeting https://youtu.be/i7RPcUo-WBo
Present: Jackie, Steve, Vaughn, Gerry, Judith, Gia, Greg, Peter W, Peter S
We had three speakers:
Steve started with a little project he is working on at the moment, taking double exposure of pubs in Harpenden along with near by trees. The effect was to produce an image that appeared to be like a floating island. Very unusual and very effective. The technique was to take a double exposure in camera, using additive blend mode. The first shot is of the pub. The second shot of the tree is taken with the camera upside down. Turning the camera upside down is the key to creating the 'island' effect. Worth trying for a bit of fun.
Steve also showed us the work of the street photographer, Alex Webb - see video https://youtu.be/rEI5JpewAgU?si=UdiQs5-hYfQGktjv. This introduces the idea of layering when composing images. I hadn't come across this before. The idea is to have a number of points of interest in the composition. This challenges the normal advice of keeping an image simple and removing clutter. Watch the video and see what you think.
Peter W recently spent 6 days photographing trees - in Burnham Beeches, Low Stubbs and Ashridge. Peter explained that trees are not his usual subject matter, but inspired by the work of Simon Baxter, Joe Cornish and Mads Peter Iversen, he gave it a go. Trees are difficult subjects. They never quite line up in the way you want. But Peter produced some great images and plans to do some more.
I then showed the work of two photographers I recently discovered. Firstly Charles Brookes. Charles is a professional cellist, but also has built a strong reputation as a photographer taking images of the inside of instruments - strings, wind and keyboard. See https://www.charlesbrooks.info/. His technique is to take multiple images using equipment based on medical endoscopy technology. The results are very unusual and undoubtedly beautiful. Over the last few years this series has apparently become one of the most popular on earth with over 16 million reproductions. I also showed the work of still life photographer Christian Coigny - see https://christiancoigny.ch/. I thought these were unusual still life shots both in terms of subject matter and composition. I liked them a lot. Gia wasn't so sure.
We then as usual had our portfolio discussion.
The next meeting will be on 14 January. Hope to see you then.
Enjoy your Christmas,
Peter
Here's a few notes from our ESIG last night, along with the links to the photographers we looked at. Here's the recording of the meeting https://youtu.be/i7RPcUo-WBo
Present: Jackie, Steve, Vaughn, Gerry, Judith, Gia, Greg, Peter W, Peter S
We had three speakers:
Steve started with a little project he is working on at the moment, taking double exposure of pubs in Harpenden along with near by trees. The effect was to produce an image that appeared to be like a floating island. Very unusual and very effective. The technique was to take a double exposure in camera, using additive blend mode. The first shot is of the pub. The second shot of the tree is taken with the camera upside down. Turning the camera upside down is the key to creating the 'island' effect. Worth trying for a bit of fun.
Steve also showed us the work of the street photographer, Alex Webb - see video https://youtu.be/rEI5JpewAgU?si=UdiQs5-hYfQGktjv. This introduces the idea of layering when composing images. I hadn't come across this before. The idea is to have a number of points of interest in the composition. This challenges the normal advice of keeping an image simple and removing clutter. Watch the video and see what you think.
Peter W recently spent 6 days photographing trees - in Burnham Beeches, Low Stubbs and Ashridge. Peter explained that trees are not his usual subject matter, but inspired by the work of Simon Baxter, Joe Cornish and Mads Peter Iversen, he gave it a go. Trees are difficult subjects. They never quite line up in the way you want. But Peter produced some great images and plans to do some more.
I then showed the work of two photographers I recently discovered. Firstly Charles Brookes. Charles is a professional cellist, but also has built a strong reputation as a photographer taking images of the inside of instruments - strings, wind and keyboard. See https://www.charlesbrooks.info/. His technique is to take multiple images using equipment based on medical endoscopy technology. The results are very unusual and undoubtedly beautiful. Over the last few years this series has apparently become one of the most popular on earth with over 16 million reproductions. I also showed the work of still life photographer Christian Coigny - see https://christiancoigny.ch/. I thought these were unusual still life shots both in terms of subject matter and composition. I liked them a lot. Gia wasn't so sure.
We then as usual had our portfolio discussion.
The next meeting will be on 14 January. Hope to see you then.
Enjoy your Christmas,
Peter
