Meeting on November 4, 2018

Here 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 building: the perfect square

Team building: the perfect square

 

Team building: the perfect square

Then it was time for the technical issues. Are there any equivalent combinations of shutter speed and lens aperture that give the same exposure? Of course, there are! We checked whether these combinations give the same effect. The answer is positive, although we found some small differences. But there is an explanation: the shooting took place outside, so the alternations of solar lighting influenced, albeit imperceptibly, the result.

The Nikon D3200 screen right after the shot

 

Nikon D3200 --- AF-S DX 18-55mm.      55mm --- ISO 100

In each photo, we reduced the brightness by 1 stop by adjusting the shutter speed and at the same time, we increased it by 1 stop by adjusting the diaphragm.

Afterwards, as usual, we all saw the photographs we had been taking in the last week and we reviewed them.