This is the area where we can present additional text notes that support some of our lectures. Geared towards beginners as well as our more experienced members, we hope you will find the articles useful.
Basic Tools Spring Tune Up
The Spring Tune Up lecture will acquaint beginners with the basic camera tools of Shutter Speeds, Depth of Field focusing, and ISO manipulation, the so called “Exposure Triangle”. More experienced photographers will be reminded of the potential and compositional options the basic tools offer!
The Exposure Triangle Myth
Almost every photographer in the world has heard of the “Exposure Triangle”, the Holy Grail of understanding how to properly use your camera with manual controls. It is this arcane knowledge that is purported to separate the Neophytes from the Masters. But, there is a fundamental problem with how we illustrate this “Trinity” of basic camera tools.
Street Photography
Street Photography, is a balance between capturing pictures in the split second and finding enough compositional elements to elevate the final images above the simple snap shot.
Technique and planning as well as a fluid senses of your subjects are all skills the can be developed by shooting in the street and improved those skills will be applicable to all aspects of photography.
Improving Your Judgeing Scores
Judges do have a certain way of evaluating images. The main elements for consideration are Overall Effect, Artistic Merit, and Technical Competence.
This article breaks down the task of critiquing images into 10 general areas to examine and improve on, in order to raise your score.