Today’s meeting was set to take place at midnight so, when dusk falls, we could practice on night photography matters. We began with a critique of our photos and continued by looking at Diane’s Arbus pictures. Afterwards we practiced flash techniques.   We experimented with rear curtain synchronization. In both the pictures below the book’s movement was from right to left, however in the second picture we were using rear curtain synchronization in the flash resulting in a more natural depiction of the book’s movement. Then we worked with the stroboscopic flash, however because we were not satisfied with the shots, we will not be presenting them to you. We will nevertheless return to you with our new attempts. Then it was time to freeze an image with flash. We went outside and (it was already dark) and throw semolina in the air. Here is the result:   As you can see, every grain of the fine semolina is visible!   In the end the time was right for o...

Our meeting lasted quite a bit longer this time around. There are two reasons why this happened: Firstly because we prepared a couple of calendars with photos from our nighttime excursions and secondly because the critique of the photos we shot is taking more time than scheduled as our new members are pretty lively and creative! When we had finished, we explored how a photograph can be affected by changing the values of the shutter speed and aperture of the lens. By using a faster speed, we can ‘freeze’ an image, whilst with a slower one, we can capture the movement of the object we’re trying to photograph. You can look at some examples down below: In our next photograph you’ll see a lit spinning top that even though it is currently spinning appears to be still as we used a 1/1000 speed. By using slower speeds, the same spinning top looks different...Notice that in the following photos the slower the speed we use the more lights are captured... ...

This meeting was rather short-lived, as most members of the group were going to travel to Bucharest the next day. To begin, we perused some wedding photos which were not the classic, standard shots we are all used to. Demonstrating there is some leeway for someone who wants to express themselves artistically, even in areas of applied photography.  The main topic we occupied ourselves with was the flash. We learned some basic things about its function, such as that it can be used to “freeze” an image. We conducted a little experiment in which we threw flour in to the air and tried to “freeze” its movement whilst it was falling. And of course, we did this in the dark of the day. Although the exposure time was quite long, the image was indeed “frozen”, as the shutter speed does not affect the exposure when using the flash, it only does so for ambient lighting.

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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 ...