Andrei Tarkovsky writes in his book “Sculpting in Time”: “The author's handwriting must not be heavy, or underlined or copper-plate ”. Really, how many creators are falling for these things trying to put more artistic value in their creations? But in this way, they end up lowering them… We started our meeting with this deduction and with similar subjects for conversation. Right after we dealt with a technical matter that is really important in photography: depth of field. After we studied it in theory, we did some practice on the 3 factors that affect it. The focal length of the lens does appear to have a significant impact on depth of field. A telephoto lens can make the depth of field appear more shallow and a wide lens   can make the depth of field appear deeper. Using the aperture (f-stop) of your lens is another way to control your depth of field. The larger the aperture, the shallower the depth of field. The smaller the aperture, the d...

This time, our meeting was in the evening and there was a certain reason for this as you will see in the photos that will follow. We first started with a presentation of Walker Evans' life and work. We will remember him for the photographs depicting the life of poor farmers right after the Great Depression of 1929-1933 and because he was the first to make shop signs have a photographic significance.  Then, taking advantage of the darkness, we took some shots with slow shutter speed. Learning the technique of photography can also be a joyful game ... Our first attempt was to draw a heart with a flashlight. Our first attempt to shape a heart.  However, we found that because of the long exposure (10 seconds) the library was recorded in the background. It was   necessary to underexposure the photo in order for the library not to be visible. So, we had two options: either we could change the shutter’s speed or we could change the len’s aperture. T...

Nikolai Gogol: It's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life. At today's meeting, we   began with   discussing this phrase by the well-known writer. As photographers, we only need to follow life, observe it and capture it. We continued with technical issues. How does photo shutter speed affect photo? We tried with a spinning top The tops are spinning… In the first photo we used a slow shutter speed (1/15 sec) and in the second a fast one (1/2000 sec). Note: the tops were spinning in both cases It is easy to see what the photographer can do in either case. And, of course, as requested by the most, we played again our favorite ice breaking game: Ice breaking game Finally, we went out to the school yard and took some pictures: One of us is taking photographs, another one ...

H ere we are again, after the holiday on 28thOctober. We met on Sunday morning at 10:30. We started, as always, with subjects related to the art of photography. We pointed out how important it is to feel joy during the shooting without thinking about the result at that moment. We also talked about the following Walker Evans's quote: "cultured life is seen in photos." We investigated the origin of the artist's inspiration. In Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy writes: "Artists are only those who are inspired directly from life and not those inspired indirectly from life already embodied in art." Finally, we talked about the dilemma of black and white or coloured photography and we concluded that no dogmatism is needed - good photography exists in both categories. Then it was time to play. We wore our blindfolds and with us all stood in a circle, holding rope, we tried to make the circle a square.   New suggestion for creative shots! Team buil...