PHOTO SHARING THEMES
This page gives information about photo-sharing themes for the period September 2023 - August 2024. You can find information about earlier periods by clicking on any of the following links:
Thursday 28th September 2023: The photo-sharing theme for the meeting will be "Shells and fossils" - please bring some photos you've taken this year or from your back catalogue, or even go out and start hunting for them now if you don't have any and you have the time.
Thursday 26th October 2023: This meeting's photo-sharing theme will be "Music". Your photos on anything connected with music will be very welcome, and you can also show videos, so long as they are short.
Thursday 23rd November 2023: The photo-sharing theme for this meeting will be "Colour - gold". The golden colour of leaves in this late autumn season is one possible source of gold photos, but there will be many others.
Thursday 27th December 2023: This is a zoom meeting and the photo-sharing theme of the meeting is "After dark". Taking photos under low-light conditions can be challenging, especially if we wish to avoid using flash. One approach is to use a slow shutter speed, specifying the shutter speed with "shutter priority" and mounting your camera on a tripod. This can be very successful if your scene is static, or if you want to deliberately blur any movement (fireworks, for example). However, if you want to freeze the movement, so that your shutter speed cannot be too slow, then you may need to use the widest possible aperture and increase the ISO as much as you dare. This theme will be an excellent chance to discuss the technical challenges of taking good photos "after dark".
Thursday 25th January 2024: The theme chosen for this meeting was "Home movies - from then till now". This represented a bit of a break from our usual habit of sharing only still photos. This time, members were invited to share movies they have made using their phone, their camera, or even their video camera. The subjects could be anything at all, including family events or happenings in the are where you live.
Thursday 22nd February 2024: The set subject for photo-sharing at this meeting was "Abstract". In preparation for this, the group watched a video at the previous meeting which presented some ideas about what is meant by "abstract" in the context of photography. Members were invited to show images illustrating their own interpretation of the concept, which might or might not agree with what the video suggested.
Thursday 28th March 2024: The photo-sharing theme for this meeting is "A sense of history". The idea here is to share images of buildings, streets, memorials, and other objects that take us back in time, preferably to before the Second World War. Sometimes the sense of history evoked by an image can be hindered by things like modern cars or advertisements intruding into the scene. However, with post-processing apps like Affinity Photo or Photoshop such things can sometimes be removed, and you are encouraged to do so if possible.
Thursday 25th April 2024: This time it's "Anything you like", and you are welcome to show us photos of anything that you have found interesting, entertaining, or instructive.