The Bottom – Pictures should tell a story

Light, light, light,  “if you only remember one thing from this course; that’s it”  said Derek Richards to FOPP members yesterday.    How fast, or slow, the light is picked up by the camera, what sort of light you are shooting in,  where is the light and the shadow for interest: an overcast day can produce much more interesting photographs than a sunny one.   A small tip was to think carefully about light if you were shooting groups with black and fair-skinned people, otherwise you would either get dark silhouettes or light ghosts.  So,  let there be some light – certainly a number of members were a little bit more enlightened about how their cameras actually worked, and what all the dials and buttons were for. Continue reading →