In today's meeting we started with a presentation of the work of Nikos Economopoulos, Magnum photographer. We continued with some theory about the flash and its synchronization speed. Then we played a game in which we had to use our minds and work together harmoniously to achieve the solution of the problem given to us. To close we grabbed the camera, placed an ND1000 filter that cuts 10 stops of light on the lens and went out into the yard. There we tried the experiment with the "disappearance" of walking people. Those who were walking were not recorded, while those who stood motionless for a while were recorded as "ghosts".

Easter is drawing closer, and so does the end of this school year. In order to compensate for the material that we haven’t shown yet, today we presented the work of 4 great creators: Diane Arbus, Bill Brandt, Julia Margaret Cameron and Roy de Carava. Afterwards, upon request by all the team members, we played the game which was well loved last week. It’s about time we reveal how it’s played: you stick on everybody’s back a sticker with a cartoon character. Then everyone tries to guess which character is on their back by asking others related questions, to which they can answer only by yes or no. Take a look at some pictures from the game: After all that, we decided to take some shots with a neutral density ND filter. In these shots some “magic” effects are generated as you’ll notice in the following photos. Everyone is underneath the shed, yet they cannot be seen, unless they’re still! In the triple photos above, those who are moving disappear b...

In this meeting we got to know the life and work of a great photographer: Andre Kertesz. Where does one begin when describing Kertesz? We shall only mention one incident: When asked why is he still shooting photos at 90 years of age he replied: “Because I am still hungry!” Onto the technical matters now, we practised on the panning technique. Mr. Stavros S. offered to help us by taking plenty of laps with his bike! As we all know when using the panning technique, you have to experiment and shoot a lot of pictures in order to get at the very least one that is actually decent. So that’s what we did. We chose a telephoto lens to further blur the background and used a neutral density ND 16 filter that shaves off 4 stops so that the picture will be correctly exposed as the slow shutter speed we chose led to closed diaphragm values that simply do not exist in any lens! You can see the results down below: Lastly, we played a new game that thrilled us! We’ll say more ...

Spring has come for good and we head for the mountains! We visited the mythical mountain Olympus to enjoy the scenery and photograph the waterfalls. Our goal was to create an image where the water looks kind of blurry. To accomplish this, we used a neutral density filter (ND 1000). And we most certainly used a tripod and chose a slow shutter speed.