February 8th – Tuesday Night Session

After a promising first session back in January, tonight’s gathering brought 12 members to the Museum from 8-10 pm to discuss the composition of images. The session was led by Paulo Viegas who walked us through some of the key topics and rules about composition.

• the rule of thirds
• leading lines
• reflections
• symmetry
• decluttering of the photo (less is more)
• diagonals
• balancing subjects
• foreground, middle ground and background
• selective focus and bokeh

The discussion was also opened with regards to this month’s challenge theme “I Ate This” as we looked at some of the key points for taking photos of food as many seemed to think that was the only option for this theme. However, as the discussion evolved, there were some really creative ideas being thrown around, that, if folks can manage to find ways to pull them off, there will be some really striking images to be seen later this month.

The Session was very well laid out and presented and members that were present will now need to do their homework to present for the next Tuesday night session on the 8th March where we’ll be seeing some images that employ Leading Lines and The Rule of thirds before we get into some manual camera setting and the Exposure Triangle.