Technique | Willington Photo Club

This month’s meeting was held at the Willington Cricket Club for the first time. The good thing about meeting here is the more relaxed atmosphere and where as at our previous venue we had a one hour booking which we were expected to keep fairly near to (although there were times we over-ran without any problem). In our new venue we did not feel rushed. Indeed it lasted around two hours.

There are a number of benefits to the new venue. Not least being the fact we were able to make a cup of tea or coffee and have a biscuit. This helped the relaxed nature of the evening.

There were a number of topics discussed, not least the upcoming craft fair at St Stephen’s church in Willington – Friday 15th to Sunday 17th of November – as well as discussions about possible exhibitions. We hope to have our first exhibition in the Willington library throughout November.

We also discussed the use of basic camera controls and how to use and understand the histogram on the cameras we have.

Why not come along and join us at our next meeting – you will be most welcome. Check out the calendar for the date.

Our meeting on 21st May was an opportunity to revisit some techniques we’d spoken about before and look at something that turned out to be new to most members. New in as much as some had heard about them, but not really read or thought much about them.

The two topics we revisited was to do with Exposure basics – the exposure triangle and inter-relationship between ISO, Aperture and Shutter Speed – and filters, primarily for digital – grey graduated filters, neutral density and polarising filters. These two topics were refreshers for some, but new to other members.

The topic that was new, in one way or another, was that of Low-Key and High-Key images. When reading around the topic there seems to be slight variations in describing these two techniques. Some will say that just having a black or very dark background is Low-Key while others feel that the whole image needs to be dark. Similarly for High-Key, a white or very light background, to the whole image exhibiting a very light nature across the entirety.

An example used of Low-Key:

An example of High-Key used:

Category: Technique

September 2019 – New Venue

May 2019 – Techniques