Tonights camera club meeting was a members’ night. That means we did our own thing. As it happens, three members of the club had done setups where other people could practice a particular photographic exercise.
Colin’s piece was a kind of still life. I say kind of, because it did involve the smoke of a candle wafting over an object against a dark background. In his case, it was an old lamp that he had bought in a charity shop for £4, with a tea-light behind it to provide a little bit of light and smoke. The pictures he’d produced in his practice attempt last week were really quite effective. It’ll be interesting to see other people’s output from that setup.
Mike is very into abstract, he loves lighting pieces of paper that have been curved into shape, they are very effective. Tonight, though, involved wood chips, lit using his adaptalux lighting system. From a distance, they did look effective. I’m sure Elayne will have a few good ones, as she is well into the abstract side of things as well.
Tims offering was a mechanism that dripped water into a bowl of water, and synchronised a flash with the drops. I’m not sure if Elayne tried that one, but i know from what Tim has submitted in to previous competitions, the effects and results are really quite nice.
So, you might reasonably ask, given that I have talked about everybody else’s efforts, why I don’t have anything to offer to you from my involvement with these really quite interesting opportunities? Well, that’s because I spent the whole evening talking to a few people and didn’t move from my seat. Quite shameful, really. Especially where I have been moaning about opportunities – and here I am missing three really quite good ones.
The header picture? The Brittany Ferry, The Guillaume de Normandie, I couldn’t even get that right today – photographing it without anything between me and it. Just a case of bad timing on my part. I have to comment on the name of the ship; I’m sure the French chose it to wind the Brits up. Who was Guillaume de Normandie? Why, William the Conqueror of course, who now gets to sail, very majestically, I might say, into one of our major military ports most days of the week. Brilliant – I love it.
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