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 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: