Lacock Positive

28th March

This evening there was a presentation by the club's two Phils, Phil Male and Phil Selby, on their trip to Finland to photograph bears.

A certain amount of dedication was required, with both of them needing to sleep in hides overnight. Most of the bear images were captured in twilight, using "horribly high ISO".

We then reviewed our images from February:

The Barge at Dawn © Craig Purvis

On the Beach © Derek Liversidge

Buxton in Winter © Howard Morland

"Zoomies" © Julia Lloyd-Parkes

Cliveden © Larry St Croix

The Tower of London, from Horizon 22 © Pam Bamford

Go Girl! © Sue Power

Pam Bamford gave a shout out to Horizon 22, a free venue in the centre of London, which gives commanding views of the city. It is free, but is ticketed entry only. It is best booked on the day, in person, since advance tickets tend to be unavailable for up to three weeks before. The website is here.

Our next meeting will be on 11th April.

At our 14th March meeting we had a presentation from Julia Lloyd-Parks on African Wild Dogs from her recent trip to Africa and a review of images from a club trip to Sutton Benger RFC

Julia's images of Africa Wild Dogs

A selection of images from the club shoot at Sutton Bender RFC

28th March - This evening we covered two topics - our January photos and our photo challenge for the later I

Here's a selection of January photos...

...and a selection of images from our 'I' challenge

Icy Cold © Craig Puris

Illumination © David Sage

Illusion © Graham d’Aucourt

Our next meeting is on Thursday 14th April in the Manor Room at Lacock Village Hall

15th February 2024

This evening was given over to the subject of composition in photography and was led by a talk from Danny Wooton, of our own parish. He listed the following "rules" (which are actually more "mild suggestions") with examples:

Rule of thirds
Central composition and symmetry
Foreground interest
Frame within a frame
Leading lines
Diagonals and triangles
Repeating patterns and leading lines
Negative space
Left to right
Balance between elements in the scene
Golden triangles
Golden ratio
Human interest (to give scale in vistas)

Then recommended this link:

https://petapixel.com/photography-composition-techniques/

The evening continued with our chairperson showing a number of (credited) images from the internet, with groups of members discussing what compositional tools had been used in each.

The evening was rounded off by reviewing images taken last December:

Our next meeting will be on February 29th.