Attendees: Brian, Gerry, Judith, Mark, Peter W, Julie, Greg, Jackie, Liz, Gia, Vaughn and me.
Apologies from Ali.
We had three talks planned, but ended up with two due to technical problems with zoom. These are now resolved as explained below.
Judith was first up with something very different. Judith is not only an excellent photographer, with her own distinctive style, but also we discovered not a bad artist. Judith showed us some drawings she's made some years back all associated with the TV series Dr Who. I thought they were excellent and showed a real level of skill way above the average sketcher. But Judith story was also interesting. She had been commissioned to draw the Dr Who characters for one of the magazines, had met the TV actors at various conventions, and was even asked for her autograph by 'adoring fans'. Well done Judith! It makes me wonder what other skills members of ESIG have that just haven't been mentioned - music maybe?
Our second talk was meant to be given by Liz on the Minimalist Photography Awards. This didn't happen because of a technical problem with Mac sharing screens on Zoom. Despite our best efforts we could not solve this problem on the night, and lost a bit of time. However, thanks to input from Mark and Steve, we have the solution. It seems that the more recent operating systems on Mac require specific privacy permission to be given. You can see the detail here, and if you're running Mac you might like to grant these permissions to avoid future problems.
https://blogs.chapman.edu/academics/2021/09/06/i-updated-my-mac-and-cant-share-my-screen-in-zoom/
I've since listened to Liz's presentation and found it genuinely inspiring. We'll see it at the February meeting.
Finally Brian showed us some abstract images taken with his iPhone. Brian gets better and better at producing these and we saw some really interesting (and beautiful) work. Brian uses the app called 'Slow shutter speed'.
Our portfolio session produced a good range of images and enjoyable discussion. Dahlia's featured strongly from Brain and Liz, depicting record sleeves from Gerry, Peter W's award winning stag, an excellent gorilla from Julie, unusually a ICM shot of Stockholm shore line from Greg, landscape from Mark, both in colour and B&W, and we were split as to which we preferred, and a beautifully composed shot of the Golden Temple in Japan from Gia. I brought up the tail with a portrait of a traveler going home on a bus. We were treated to a good variety of images which was both enjoyable and I'm sure helped to widen 'the way we see'.
Thanks to all who took part.
Our next meeting will be on 26th Febuary.
Apologies from Ali.
We had three talks planned, but ended up with two due to technical problems with zoom. These are now resolved as explained below.
Judith was first up with something very different. Judith is not only an excellent photographer, with her own distinctive style, but also we discovered not a bad artist. Judith showed us some drawings she's made some years back all associated with the TV series Dr Who. I thought they were excellent and showed a real level of skill way above the average sketcher. But Judith story was also interesting. She had been commissioned to draw the Dr Who characters for one of the magazines, had met the TV actors at various conventions, and was even asked for her autograph by 'adoring fans'. Well done Judith! It makes me wonder what other skills members of ESIG have that just haven't been mentioned - music maybe?
Our second talk was meant to be given by Liz on the Minimalist Photography Awards. This didn't happen because of a technical problem with Mac sharing screens on Zoom. Despite our best efforts we could not solve this problem on the night, and lost a bit of time. However, thanks to input from Mark and Steve, we have the solution. It seems that the more recent operating systems on Mac require specific privacy permission to be given. You can see the detail here, and if you're running Mac you might like to grant these permissions to avoid future problems.
https://blogs.chapman.edu/academics/2021/09/06/i-updated-my-mac-and-cant-share-my-screen-in-zoom/
I've since listened to Liz's presentation and found it genuinely inspiring. We'll see it at the February meeting.
Finally Brian showed us some abstract images taken with his iPhone. Brian gets better and better at producing these and we saw some really interesting (and beautiful) work. Brian uses the app called 'Slow shutter speed'.
Our portfolio session produced a good range of images and enjoyable discussion. Dahlia's featured strongly from Brain and Liz, depicting record sleeves from Gerry, Peter W's award winning stag, an excellent gorilla from Julie, unusually a ICM shot of Stockholm shore line from Greg, landscape from Mark, both in colour and B&W, and we were split as to which we preferred, and a beautifully composed shot of the Golden Temple in Japan from Gia. I brought up the tail with a portrait of a traveler going home on a bus. We were treated to a good variety of images which was both enjoyable and I'm sure helped to widen 'the way we see'.
Thanks to all who took part.
Our next meeting will be on 26th Febuary.
