Here's a reminder of what we covered at last week's ESIG meeting.
We started with a talk by Peter Whitehead on 'Self reliance in wildlife photography'. Peter explained that his approach starts with being clear about what type of wildlife he wanted to photograph and researching the subject, in terms of, for example, best locations, time of year, workshop leaders. In these times of lockdown and restricted movements, Peter showed images of owls taken locally. A good example of doing research and being resourceful.
Iain Fry has started to work on an ARPS panel. Its early days and Iain showed us some images exploring the subject of 'Dereliction'. We discussed the images, how they hung together and particularly what might be the underlying theme for the 'Statement of Intent'. A couple of new ideas emerged which hopefully Iain found useful.
We then tried something new. I had invited 10 of our regular members to submit just one photograph, which we then discussed in much greater detail than we normally would. This certainly generated plenty of discussion and revealed more of the photograph. Reaction to this idea was generally positive (80/20??) and the view was that we should give it another go.
Finally I asked the group for their feeling on how ESIG should move forward. The following ideas emerged:
- we should try to recruit more members
- spend more time on sharing and critiquing members' images. This is the original core idea behind ESIG, but it does require members to put forward their images.
- have presentations on 'How I did this', either by inviting speakers over Zoom, or by recorded videos/UTube
- members showing the work of inspirational photographers
- more of the 'Portfolio' evening
The plan would be to mix and match these topics.
Our next meeting will be on 23rd March.
We started with a talk by Peter Whitehead on 'Self reliance in wildlife photography'. Peter explained that his approach starts with being clear about what type of wildlife he wanted to photograph and researching the subject, in terms of, for example, best locations, time of year, workshop leaders. In these times of lockdown and restricted movements, Peter showed images of owls taken locally. A good example of doing research and being resourceful.
Iain Fry has started to work on an ARPS panel. Its early days and Iain showed us some images exploring the subject of 'Dereliction'. We discussed the images, how they hung together and particularly what might be the underlying theme for the 'Statement of Intent'. A couple of new ideas emerged which hopefully Iain found useful.
We then tried something new. I had invited 10 of our regular members to submit just one photograph, which we then discussed in much greater detail than we normally would. This certainly generated plenty of discussion and revealed more of the photograph. Reaction to this idea was generally positive (80/20??) and the view was that we should give it another go.
Finally I asked the group for their feeling on how ESIG should move forward. The following ideas emerged:
- we should try to recruit more members
- spend more time on sharing and critiquing members' images. This is the original core idea behind ESIG, but it does require members to put forward their images.
- have presentations on 'How I did this', either by inviting speakers over Zoom, or by recorded videos/UTube
- members showing the work of inspirational photographers
- more of the 'Portfolio' evening
The plan would be to mix and match these topics.
Our next meeting will be on 23rd March.
