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Advanced Photography Group meeting no 2
November 30, 2023 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
The second APG meeting of the season. Nick Bowman will lead this discussion session to explore how EPC members might improve the quality of their images and prints. This could include:
- Planning your shots to give yourself every opportunity to obtain images that have the potential to be good in-camera / drone / phone captures.
- How to select which of your images have the most potential?
- Choosing the most appropriate crop?
- Deciding what size various elements in the frame should be?
- Using the tools and skills you have to edit the image to the best of your ability.
- Seeking the views of others about how you might improve your work.
- Develop your editing and printing skills regardless of whether you outsource or do your own printing.
- From the above determine your strengths and weaknesses and pick out a couple of areas for improvement.
Another aspect we can look at is how we can develop our skills in a different genre. For example, Nick wants to develop/improve his water-sports images and achieve a similar standard to that of his nature images. What does he need to do achieve this aim? Nick will be the “Guinea Pig” to get the discussion going.
John has created a folder in Photo-Entry entitled “APG 30 November Images”. We would ask you to submit up to 5 images where you would like some suggestions from other members about how you might improve any aspects of your work.
Nick will manage proceedings to ensure everyone gets the opportunity to share one or more of their images for discussion. In truth many of the areas we have for improvement will be replicated in many of our images, so just sharing one image for discussion may be enough to identify a couple of key areas for development.
We hope that this format will supplement the feedback we get from Judges. No doubt there will be some “common themes” arising and some potential “quick wins” for several of our members. So, the outcome of this session may well dictate what 2024 APG sessions should focus on.
We look forward to your participation.