I'm not sure of the best place to post this so here's my best guess.
I'd be interested to get a feel for whether any members would be interested in a photography weekend some time during 2016. It would be aimed at beginner to intermediate photographers who which to develop their picture taking skills. The idea is that we could meet up either for a one day session or possibly a week-end. No specific kit would be needed - anything from a cameraphone to a full-blown DSLR kit would be fine, although the more manual controls you have, the better. A few laptops would also help for reviewing what we've done. I can also take people through some post-processing basics.
I would take people through the basics of exposure (using aperture, shutter speed and ISO settings to control depth of field and movement), the importance of light (quantity, quality and direction), composition (e.g. rule of thirds), other elements such as pattern, colour and tone, texture, shape and form. The best genre to go for is probably landscape, but we could have a go a street and architecture too, depending on where we meet up.
Optimum group size would be about half a dozen plus me. My preferred location would be somewhere either in the Peak District National Park, South Derbyshire or mid Wales in the Machynlleth area.
This is just a tentative idea at this point, but I'd be interested in gauging the level of interest.
I'd be interested to get a feel for whether any members would be interested in a photography weekend some time during 2016. It would be aimed at beginner to intermediate photographers who which to develop their picture taking skills. The idea is that we could meet up either for a one day session or possibly a week-end. No specific kit would be needed - anything from a cameraphone to a full-blown DSLR kit would be fine, although the more manual controls you have, the better. A few laptops would also help for reviewing what we've done. I can also take people through some post-processing basics.
I would take people through the basics of exposure (using aperture, shutter speed and ISO settings to control depth of field and movement), the importance of light (quantity, quality and direction), composition (e.g. rule of thirds), other elements such as pattern, colour and tone, texture, shape and form. The best genre to go for is probably landscape, but we could have a go a street and architecture too, depending on where we meet up.
Optimum group size would be about half a dozen plus me. My preferred location would be somewhere either in the Peak District National Park, South Derbyshire or mid Wales in the Machynlleth area.
This is just a tentative idea at this point, but I'd be interested in gauging the level of interest.