Another Sunday morning was full of life for our school thanks to the Photo Club meeting! Many new members attended, so we focused on the basics regarding the body of a camera: the shutter, the mirror, the viewfinder and the photometer! We also watched a video in which Platonas Rivellis talks about the qualities a photographer must possess. And off course we had fun by playing yet another game... At the end, as usual, we shot pictures of each other!

Because of the holidays for the Carnival and a minor illness, two of meetings were lost... This time, however, we were faithful to our appointment. We first got to know the life and work of Nikos Economopoulos, a photographer who is a member of the famous agency Magnum! Of course, his participation in this is an honour for our country. We even saw a book by the Photographic Circle, the association founded by Platon Rivellis, which also contained his own photographs! Here is an element of his rich biography that isn’t as commonly known! We continued with the critique of the shots taken by our members. We finished the theoretical part of our meeting having learned some facts about the use of filters. Quiz: what colour filter should we use to distinguish blue from green tones in black and white photography? Some filters like the ND (neutral density) & polarizing filters are useful even in the digital age! Taking advantage of the fact that our meeting was in the afternoon, as ...

Our afternoon meetings continue, as we’re experimenting with the flash, and we need the area to be dark. There’s nothing better than starting off with a game. And that’s what we did!  Afterwards we watched a video in which Plato Rivellis presented the work of Henri Cartier Bresson. The greatest part of the meeting however, was dedicated to the technical matters of the flash and  rear curtain sync.  Here are two photos (in two versions each) that we took: