10th September
TENBY CAMERA CLUB NEWS
We kicked off the start of the new season of Tenby Camera Club events with a cracker of a presentation.
It was decided to completely run all our events, presentations and competitions, via Zoom, at least until April 2021. Al Rees, our programme secretary, has excelled herself booking an impressive and first rate series of presentations.
So back to the 10th September, we welcomed Kieran Metcalfe and his “Chasing the Light or Confessions of a Sunburst Junkie” Presentation. Kieran, a freelance graphic designer, is also a talented amateur photographer, using his photography to control his work pressures. He admitted he doesn’t use the top level equipment, but we could see it was his eye for composition, watching the weather and obvious love of the countryside that has given him his striking ability to capture something special.
The statement “ You can tell you’re with a photographer - they keep banging on about the light” was quoted and the emphasis during Kieran’s talk was just that. All types of techniques were discussed with images to illustrate, how to shoot into the sun, use side light, using the blue hour, and taking evening and night shots. Advice on how to shoot high contrast scenes, use bracketed exposures and post processing techniques was given. We were given suggestions of Apps to use for planning your photography trip, for information on weather, clouds, the milky way, sunset & sunrise times. It was reiterated that it is important to plan ahead, sourcing locations and considering the conditions for light, mist, fog and clouds. His images each had the metadata attached so members could see his settings used.
The Peak District area was featured heavily with all sorts of moods and colours. Kieran showed us photos taken even in the same exact spot can be of different standards , all down to the light . He asked too that we should consider not using the popular”tripod”spots, to find a unique vista . This would also help erosion of paths and beauty spots .
As well as the Peak District there were images from Death Valley in the USA , taken in incredible heat, night shots of the Milky way and Salford Quay at night , Iceland and Scotland .
Kieran was thanked for his inspiring and comprehensive talk and he has certainly placed a spark under our feet to get out there and give landscape photography a try.
As the club is being run on Zoom, it is easy to be an online member for the coming season . Have look at the super speakers we have coming up and consider joining, only £20 and all the information is listed on the website.
Next week on the 17th September we have Phil Savoie, a biologist, photographer and filmmaker who has worked in the BBC Natural History unit and has taught photography as a University Professor. His talk “Up your Photography” covers topics not found in most photo lectures, from the science of our vision to lens optics, the psychology of perspective and the odd war story! The talk will cover all genres from macro to landscape, sport, wildlife, people and astro ... so there is something for everybody !
We kicked off the start of the new season of Tenby Camera Club events with a cracker of a presentation.
It was decided to completely run all our events, presentations and competitions, via Zoom, at least until April 2021. Al Rees, our programme secretary, has excelled herself booking an impressive and first rate series of presentations.
So back to the 10th September, we welcomed Kieran Metcalfe and his “Chasing the Light or Confessions of a Sunburst Junkie” Presentation. Kieran, a freelance graphic designer, is also a talented amateur photographer, using his photography to control his work pressures. He admitted he doesn’t use the top level equipment, but we could see it was his eye for composition, watching the weather and obvious love of the countryside that has given him his striking ability to capture something special.
The statement “ You can tell you’re with a photographer - they keep banging on about the light” was quoted and the emphasis during Kieran’s talk was just that. All types of techniques were discussed with images to illustrate, how to shoot into the sun, use side light, using the blue hour, and taking evening and night shots. Advice on how to shoot high contrast scenes, use bracketed exposures and post processing techniques was given. We were given suggestions of Apps to use for planning your photography trip, for information on weather, clouds, the milky way, sunset & sunrise times. It was reiterated that it is important to plan ahead, sourcing locations and considering the conditions for light, mist, fog and clouds. His images each had the metadata attached so members could see his settings used.
The Peak District area was featured heavily with all sorts of moods and colours. Kieran showed us photos taken even in the same exact spot can be of different standards , all down to the light . He asked too that we should consider not using the popular”tripod”spots, to find a unique vista . This would also help erosion of paths and beauty spots .
As well as the Peak District there were images from Death Valley in the USA , taken in incredible heat, night shots of the Milky way and Salford Quay at night , Iceland and Scotland .
Kieran was thanked for his inspiring and comprehensive talk and he has certainly placed a spark under our feet to get out there and give landscape photography a try.
As the club is being run on Zoom, it is easy to be an online member for the coming season . Have look at the super speakers we have coming up and consider joining, only £20 and all the information is listed on the website.
Next week on the 17th September we have Phil Savoie, a biologist, photographer and filmmaker who has worked in the BBC Natural History unit and has taught photography as a University Professor. His talk “Up your Photography” covers topics not found in most photo lectures, from the science of our vision to lens optics, the psychology of perspective and the odd war story! The talk will cover all genres from macro to landscape, sport, wildlife, people and astro ... so there is something for everybody !