Photography Lesson

7th April 2011

After an early “cuppa” we welcomed John and Maria Egan as our guests for this meeting on the skills and pleasure of photography.

John spoke at length with a power point presentation on just how a camera works, it copies our eyes,. Light enters through our retinas and at the back of the eye is reversed and turned upside down and we see!!!

The camera works just the same through various lens in the camera. John spent a good amount of time explaining how the camera works. He explained that we do not need expensive cameras to take good photos, once we know how to use the apertures ( letting in the light) and speed of the shutter works. He explained how they are both intrinsic to get the result we hope for , We all just have to understand how they work together and keep practising.

After another “cuppa”, John then showed us pictures that were beautiful but could be improved on, making them softer in the surrounds, making a part of the picture sharper, remembering the “one third” principle!!! He showed us how he created the improvements and how we can manage this principle with our own camera shots.

There were lots of questions and talk about cameras as some of the members had brought along their own for John and Maria to assist them in improving their use of these.

We could have gone on all day but drew the meeting to a close at 1pm. We thank John and Maria for their generous gift of their time as they were presented with a gift of appreciation.

May meeting at Marilyns - learning mosaics.