T A R P S – Prez Notes 1 Dec 2011

Present:

Chris (with Hannah in tow), Andrew, Delia and Petro (and of course Arthur)

Apologies:

Cheryl, Yvonne and Andrew C

Introduction:

Nothing to say this month so straight in to our monthly topic.

Monthly topic:                FOOD

Chris led off with these two based around produce from the home garden:

He was pleased with the colour and textures but disappointed that even having taken great care with aperture settings, the depth of field wasn’t sufficient for all the raspberries to be in focus in the first shot and the teeth in the second.  All good experience!

Delia was inspired by some illustrations from one of her cookbooks:

Looked good enough to eat and featured a terrific array of coloured preserves in the background.  Delia admitted that she had resorted to ‘post production’ for the first time in her life: she had overlooked some cracker crumbs, and once she had it up on screen they proved very distracting so she cloned them out.  She also had another offering:

Which looked fun and a fantastic composition.

Petro had recently won an Arnotts Lunch Kit so photographed that for posterity:

We all thought the carpet made a particularly effective background and went on to chew over (pun intended!) the problems of angle of   light and 3D effect / depth perception; overhead and it is all too ‘flat’, at too shallow an angle and you can get big shadows.

Andrew presented a series that all featured tight crops and natural light:

By now we were all salivating feely and keen to move outside to the Thursday Night Market!

From the Web

Nothing to report this month

A O B

Chris reported gloomily that due to the floods in Thailand disrupting production for Sony (and Nikon), he was unlikely to be able to get his new camera, Sony DSLT – A77, until February!

Chris went on (as he usually does!) to also report on some problems he had encountered recently when shooting some pictures of Charlotte’s end of year ballet production: no flash allowed, frequently moving subjects, high ISO and difficulty with getting the right white balance.

Advice for next time was to set a custom white balance on the camera at the start for that particular scenario.

Topics:

We all agreed that as January was ‘summer hols time’ or ‘getting back to work time’ depending on your level in the grand scheme of things, we would skip January’s meeting but have two topics.

December:          Decoration

January:              Animals

Date of Next Meeting:

Thurs 9 Feb 2012  5.15pm at Lakes (Delia gave her apologies in advance – she will be off grave hunting in the Wairarapa)