Here's my brief summary of last week's ESIG, just to remind you what we covered.
We had 12 attend the meeting and 3 apologies, so I feel we're finishing the season with around 15 active members which is a good number. Thank you.
We had planned three talks, but the technology gremlins reduced this to two.
Iain was on first with some of his favourite street photographs. There were shots I remember from some time back, but also some new ones. I particularly liked the parking ticket shot. So simple, and attractive colour contrast.
Gerry attempted to show his new Iceland AV (which I've seen and enjoyed). But although we could see the visuals, Gerry couldn't get the sound to work, so we had to abandon. The good news is that Gerry has since found the button in Zoom that allows for sound, so we'll be seeing the AV sometime next season.
Steve then gave a very comprehensive presentation about his experience of using AI. This included a review of competing products (there are more out there than I realised), examples of images that have been in the media recently, including the one that won the photo competition in Australia, and of Donald Trump being arrested (all fake - obviously). But I was most taken with the examples Steve had generated of Godfrey's Fish and Chip shop, in the style of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, and also of Donald Trump dancing in front of the Eiffel Tower. You can see Steve's presentation in Dropbox here. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qv9fkbp75sepp8f/AI%20Midjourney.pdf?dl=0
Then followed our Portfolio session as usual.
We finished off the meeting with a discussion of the format of ESIG and whether we should change anything. Apparently not. You made positive comments at the meeting and separately I've received similar comments from others by email. So thankyou - 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'
After the meeting Dries emailed me saying he'd like to talk about a new photographer he has discovered named Jenny Boot - see here https://www.jennyboot.nl/bio/. We'll hopefully have Dries on for the September meeting, but please take an early look.
The next meeting will be on 26th September, but I'll confirm nearer the time.
We had 12 attend the meeting and 3 apologies, so I feel we're finishing the season with around 15 active members which is a good number. Thank you.
We had planned three talks, but the technology gremlins reduced this to two.
Iain was on first with some of his favourite street photographs. There were shots I remember from some time back, but also some new ones. I particularly liked the parking ticket shot. So simple, and attractive colour contrast.
Gerry attempted to show his new Iceland AV (which I've seen and enjoyed). But although we could see the visuals, Gerry couldn't get the sound to work, so we had to abandon. The good news is that Gerry has since found the button in Zoom that allows for sound, so we'll be seeing the AV sometime next season.
Steve then gave a very comprehensive presentation about his experience of using AI. This included a review of competing products (there are more out there than I realised), examples of images that have been in the media recently, including the one that won the photo competition in Australia, and of Donald Trump being arrested (all fake - obviously). But I was most taken with the examples Steve had generated of Godfrey's Fish and Chip shop, in the style of Edward Hopper's Nighthawks, and also of Donald Trump dancing in front of the Eiffel Tower. You can see Steve's presentation in Dropbox here. https://www.dropbox.com/s/qv9fkbp75sepp8f/AI%20Midjourney.pdf?dl=0
Then followed our Portfolio session as usual.
We finished off the meeting with a discussion of the format of ESIG and whether we should change anything. Apparently not. You made positive comments at the meeting and separately I've received similar comments from others by email. So thankyou - 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'
After the meeting Dries emailed me saying he'd like to talk about a new photographer he has discovered named Jenny Boot - see here https://www.jennyboot.nl/bio/. We'll hopefully have Dries on for the September meeting, but please take an early look.
The next meeting will be on 26th September, but I'll confirm nearer the time.
