On Tuesday evening we welcomed Justin via zoom to give his talk about his landscape work.
He started the talk with a quote by Jim Richardson.
"If you want to be a better photographer, stand in front of more interesting stuff."
Justin showed a variety of images from around East Anglia, other parts of the country and around the world, and explained the camera settings he used.
He started with East Anglia, which is also his local area, and suggested that it's important to spend time to get to know the location you intend to photograph. He talked about coastal photography and how the East Anglian coast presents the photographer with very interesting stuff such as ruins, boats, lighthouses, piers and wide open fields. He mentioned that luck also plays a part in landscape photography. The weather condition can make a huge difference to an image; as do sunrise and sunset, blue hour, dramatic skies.
How to make your image interesting:
Paying attention to composition and not being overwhelmed by the location. Using a zoom lens to bring things closer and still giving shallow depth of field. A wide angle lens to give a different perspective to the image using different shutter speeds. Observing the flow of the tide before pressing the shutter button.
He ended the evening with this quote by Henri Cartier-Bresson
"It's an illusion that photos are made with the camera ... they are made with the eye, heart and head."
A very interesting evening with lots of local places we can visit and tips that we can all tryout.
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