Thanks to those that managed to attend the ESIG last Tuesday. Our numbers were down a bit due to holidays. Here's a reminder of what we covered.
We started by taking a look at the Landscape Photographer of the Year results which were announced last weekend - see https://www.lpoty.co.uk/gallery/2022/award-winners-2022. There are some excellent images. These will be published in a book, due out shortly, and selected images will go on a touring exhibition around the major railway stations in the UK, thanks to the sponsor Network Rail. The exhibition dates and locations can be found here https://www.lpoty.co.uk/exhibition.
I then tried to follow on from our last meeting and show a video by David DuChemin about finding your own 'photographic voice'. Unfortunately the video failed to play due to internet bandwidth problems and my attempt to explain the video wasn't entirely convincing! So, I obtained agreement to download and forward the video to you all - but that's failed too! This has not been my most successful initiative. Basically the video is saying .... find your story, shoot a panel of images, take photos 'about' the subject, not 'of' the subject. If you have the time it would be great if you tried to put this into practice and showed us the results at next meeting.
We finished off with our portfolio session which, as usual, gave us the chance to explore and discuss our own images in more detail.
Our next meeting will be 29th November. I've hopefully got two speakers lined up already, but if you've got something you'd like to show or discuss at the next meeting, or some future date, just let me know.
We started by taking a look at the Landscape Photographer of the Year results which were announced last weekend - see https://www.lpoty.co.uk/gallery/2022/award-winners-2022. There are some excellent images. These will be published in a book, due out shortly, and selected images will go on a touring exhibition around the major railway stations in the UK, thanks to the sponsor Network Rail. The exhibition dates and locations can be found here https://www.lpoty.co.uk/exhibition.
I then tried to follow on from our last meeting and show a video by David DuChemin about finding your own 'photographic voice'. Unfortunately the video failed to play due to internet bandwidth problems and my attempt to explain the video wasn't entirely convincing! So, I obtained agreement to download and forward the video to you all - but that's failed too! This has not been my most successful initiative. Basically the video is saying .... find your story, shoot a panel of images, take photos 'about' the subject, not 'of' the subject. If you have the time it would be great if you tried to put this into practice and showed us the results at next meeting.
We finished off with our portfolio session which, as usual, gave us the chance to explore and discuss our own images in more detail.
Our next meeting will be 29th November. I've hopefully got two speakers lined up already, but if you've got something you'd like to show or discuss at the next meeting, or some future date, just let me know.
