Here's a brief reminder of what we covered at our Sept ESIG meeting, but if you want to see the whole thing, then here's a recording https://youtu.be/v-pmrEaKuiI.
Present: Brian, Gerry, Judith, Dries, Steve, Peter
Apologies from: Liz, Mark, Ali, Jackie, Gia, Greg, Hannah.
Last season we changed our meeting date to the 4th Monday in the month, but in practice this doesn't work for a number of our regulars. Would the 2nd Tuesday in the month be better. Please let me know if you could make this.
We had three speakers:
Peter Whitehead kicked off the evening with photographs of bears, wolves and wolverines, taken on a workshop in northern Finland, close to the Russian border. The workshop was run by Richard Peters - see https://www.richardpeters.co.uk/wildlife-photography-workshops/finnish-summer-predators/. Great photos, some real close ups right just there in front of the camera. But I think the photo we will all remember is of the 5 star hide - not much more than a large garden shed, with viewing positions on one side and bunk beds on the other! Peter spent several night here with the other workshop attendees.
Gerry followed with some photos of St Albans Cathedral. He explained how he was exploring the light, and there was certainly some great lighting effects. But Gerry gave us the profound thought that he was 'not photographing the light, but was photographing the dark.' That's worth thinking about.
I finished off the talks by showing the work of two photographers that I have recently added to 'my favourites'. I found these via Photosnack, which sends me a daily email with a recommended photographer - sign up here if you're interested https://www.photosnack.email/.
The first photographer was Jonquin Pastor Genzor - see https://joakkin.com/. Jonquin is a street photographer, very much using the light and positioning people as elements in the composition rather than the main subject.
The second photographer was very different. Reuben Njaa work is characterised by highly saturated intense colours - see https://reubennjaa.com/projects. The subject matter is varied from abstracts, derelict buildings to cityscapes. Very different but our views were mixed.
Finally we had the Portfolio review with a reduced number of images, but still a good discussion.
Present: Brian, Gerry, Judith, Dries, Steve, Peter
Apologies from: Liz, Mark, Ali, Jackie, Gia, Greg, Hannah.
Last season we changed our meeting date to the 4th Monday in the month, but in practice this doesn't work for a number of our regulars. Would the 2nd Tuesday in the month be better. Please let me know if you could make this.
We had three speakers:
Peter Whitehead kicked off the evening with photographs of bears, wolves and wolverines, taken on a workshop in northern Finland, close to the Russian border. The workshop was run by Richard Peters - see https://www.richardpeters.co.uk/wildlife-photography-workshops/finnish-summer-predators/. Great photos, some real close ups right just there in front of the camera. But I think the photo we will all remember is of the 5 star hide - not much more than a large garden shed, with viewing positions on one side and bunk beds on the other! Peter spent several night here with the other workshop attendees.
Gerry followed with some photos of St Albans Cathedral. He explained how he was exploring the light, and there was certainly some great lighting effects. But Gerry gave us the profound thought that he was 'not photographing the light, but was photographing the dark.' That's worth thinking about.
I finished off the talks by showing the work of two photographers that I have recently added to 'my favourites'. I found these via Photosnack, which sends me a daily email with a recommended photographer - sign up here if you're interested https://www.photosnack.email/.
The first photographer was Jonquin Pastor Genzor - see https://joakkin.com/. Jonquin is a street photographer, very much using the light and positioning people as elements in the composition rather than the main subject.
The second photographer was very different. Reuben Njaa work is characterised by highly saturated intense colours - see https://reubennjaa.com/projects. The subject matter is varied from abstracts, derelict buildings to cityscapes. Very different but our views were mixed.
Finally we had the Portfolio review with a reduced number of images, but still a good discussion.
