Smart Shooting part 3 - dare to focus

We are delighted to welcome Bob to St Ives for his talk "Dare to Focus".

Bob is a professional PhD zoologist, a qualified teacher, a highly experienced photographer, Fellow of the RPS and naturalist passionate about his work and sharing his observations of wildlife with others.  He firmly believes it’s not good enough just to say “do this” but rather to say “this is how you do this”.

Bob is a wildlife photographer but his talk is equally applicable to of all other genres and is one of a series he was invited to develop to help people in their journey from the ordinary to the extraordinary and taking their photography to a new level. Each talk covers a particular area and this one covers the often-considered difficult area of auto focus. It covers fast moving subjects but also the principles and important development and approaches that will increase your success. Bob firmly believes that we too often consider autofocus has been solved especially on the latest mirrorless cameras but whilst there have been massive improvements its technique and an understanding of the principles, none of which are very complex, these are what is required to succeed and Bob will take us through them.

Bob has many years experience teaching all levels of photographers on many different cameras in workshops, 1-1’s and African Safaris. He promises us that we will leave this evening with a better understanding of what can be done, how to do it and fired up to take our cameras out and masted autofocus.

https://naturesphotos.co.uk/camera-club-talks/.

The first half of the meeting is full of information!  We will start by seeing your best image from the summer events - members can email their image to the programme secretary.  We will then be looking at the upcoming programme to see what is on offer over the season.  As part of that we will introduce the Buddy Scheme and also a new Edit challenge (see links below). For this, members will be given an image, which we will all go away and edit it with our own ideas.  We will look at  the results on 10th November.   (To help with the Edit Challenge and Buddy Scheme, on 15th September there will be a post processing night - stations around the room will help with Photoshop, Lightroom and BeFunky editing - and possibly Affinity. Tuition available will depend on the specific expertise of members who are willing to share their knowledge)..

In the second half of the first evening, Gary will present images taken by our members for the Millennium.  It will be interesting to see how much change there has been in the last 26 years!   We are delighted to have the original prints, which were being stored for us at Huntingdon Library.

For more information on the Edit Challenge and Buddies' Scheme, please use the links

Edit Challenge

Buddies Scheme