Thankyou to those attending our first ESIG meeting of the new season. I hope you enjoyed the evening, and learned something new. Here's a few notes to remind us of what we covered:
Attendance: Steve Collins, Hannah Hall, Liz Thompson, Peter Whitehead, Greg Covington, Mick Thurman, Vaughn Thompson, Iain Fry, Gia Aradottir, Peter Stevens.
We had three talks:
1: Peter Whitehead gave a talk on 'A Portfolio of Puffins'. Peter started by asking us why we might produce a portfolio of work, what's the purpose, who's it for? Isn't one great shot enough? The group felt a portfolio gives more direction and greater opportunity to tell a story. Coincidentally I received a newsletter from a Canadian photographer, David DuChemin, who discussed this very subject. We might discuss this further at the next meeting.
Peter recommended a book titled 'Puffins' by Kevin Morgan, who Peter feels is one of the best puffin photographers around at the moment.
Peter then showed us his own portfolio of his 10 favourite puffin shots - very impressive.
2: Liz Thompson gave a talk on 'Photography with Intent'. This was a summary of a 10 week course that Liz has just completed run by the RPS. It was called 'Discover your genre and develop your style'. The course covered nine (?) different genres of photography and involved both theory and practical work. The final assessment required a 700 word written assignment and a panel of images with a Statement of Intent. Liz's project was on the Full English Breakfast. It was a great panel.
Liz felt the course had reenergised her photography and given her greater direction going forward. Liz had now set herself some challenging goals to achieve over the next couple of years. Liz highly recommended the course.
3. I finished off with 'My Jubilee Project', in which I showed images from a project I was involved in with others from my local camera club. The purpose was to record the celebrations taking place in and around Tynemouth to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. This was not the type of photography I normally do, and I felt distinctly out of my comfort zone. But the project overall was successful, we produced a print exhibition, which is now 'on tour' around local community centres, libraries, etc.
We then had our usual Portfolio session where we discussed and shared views on eight images.
Attendance: Steve Collins, Hannah Hall, Liz Thompson, Peter Whitehead, Greg Covington, Mick Thurman, Vaughn Thompson, Iain Fry, Gia Aradottir, Peter Stevens.
We had three talks:
1: Peter Whitehead gave a talk on 'A Portfolio of Puffins'. Peter started by asking us why we might produce a portfolio of work, what's the purpose, who's it for? Isn't one great shot enough? The group felt a portfolio gives more direction and greater opportunity to tell a story. Coincidentally I received a newsletter from a Canadian photographer, David DuChemin, who discussed this very subject. We might discuss this further at the next meeting.
Peter recommended a book titled 'Puffins' by Kevin Morgan, who Peter feels is one of the best puffin photographers around at the moment.
Peter then showed us his own portfolio of his 10 favourite puffin shots - very impressive.
2: Liz Thompson gave a talk on 'Photography with Intent'. This was a summary of a 10 week course that Liz has just completed run by the RPS. It was called 'Discover your genre and develop your style'. The course covered nine (?) different genres of photography and involved both theory and practical work. The final assessment required a 700 word written assignment and a panel of images with a Statement of Intent. Liz's project was on the Full English Breakfast. It was a great panel.
Liz felt the course had reenergised her photography and given her greater direction going forward. Liz had now set herself some challenging goals to achieve over the next couple of years. Liz highly recommended the course.
3. I finished off with 'My Jubilee Project', in which I showed images from a project I was involved in with others from my local camera club. The purpose was to record the celebrations taking place in and around Tynemouth to celebrate the Queen's Jubilee. This was not the type of photography I normally do, and I felt distinctly out of my comfort zone. But the project overall was successful, we produced a print exhibition, which is now 'on tour' around local community centres, libraries, etc.
We then had our usual Portfolio session where we discussed and shared views on eight images.
