Beginner's Photography Class
Saturday 21 September
Sycamore Rd, Birmingham - 2pm - 3 Hours
Sahar Yousefi
Ready to learn more about your camera and get out of automatic exposure? Now is your chance!
Join us as we break down your camera to help you learn about shutter speed, aperture, ISO and how these settings affect your exposure.
We will then put your new knowledge to the test with the guidance of a professional photographer.
Autumn Colours Photography Walk
Saturday 28 September
Brocton, Cannock Chase - 10am - 2 Hours
Jerome Nseebi Halm
Enjoy an autumnal photography walk through ancient oak woodlands whilst getting creative with your camera. This meetup will help you use the right settings to get the result you want. We will look at depth of field and shutter speed along with a few other tricks to bring your autumn images to life.
Beginner's Photography Class
Saturday 28 September
Dinmore Hill - 11am - 3 Hours
Steven Gregory
Ready to learn more about your camera and get out of automatic exposure? Now is your chance!
Join us as we break down your camera to help you learn about shutter speed, aperture, ISO and how these settings affect your exposure.
We will then put your new knowledge to the test with the guidance of a professional photographer.
Black and White Photography
Saturday 05 October
Great Haywood - 10am - 2 Hours
Jerome Nseebi Halm
Learn how to see beyond colour! This introduction to black and white photography will encourage you to look at form and shape, whilst using contrast and light to make striking images. We will also look at how texture helps to create interest in black and white photography. This meetup will take us down the Trent Mersey Canal, using decorative boats, ornate bridges and reflections in the water as some of our subject matter. All abilities are welcome to join for a relaxing and inspiring wander along the canal.
Outdoor Portraits
Saturday 12 October
Lichfield - 10am - 2 Hours
Jerome Nseebi Halm
This meetup goes over some basic dos and don'ts for posing and looks at issues to do with shooting in daylight for the best results. Included are shooting different body types, men, women and shooting with strong sunlight and shooting in shade, and designing your background composition. On this meet,up you are encouraged to bring along family or friends as models.You will preferably need a normal, 85mm or longer lens, or a zoom. If you have a wide-angle this can also be used as we will be also looking at environmental portraits.This is the perfect meetup to learn how to take the perfect portraits of family and friends.
Street Photography
Saturday 12 October
Cathedral Close - 11am - 2 Hours
Steven Gregory
People, cafes, vendors, street merchants, buskers, historic buildings, art installations and much more. The power of observation underpins the art of great street photography. Learning to "see" interesting detail is a practised skill and we introduce you to easy methods that will open your photographer's eye and expose you to a world that is alive with detail.
We will also go over settings, focusing techniques and lens choices common to street photography to help us capture those random chance encounters.
Architecture Photography
Saturday 12 October
College Yard - 12:30pm - 2 Hours
Shravani Patil
Architectural photography can be a great way of exploring and documenting a city, whether it's your home or on holiday. Its about capturing not only the design and accurate representation of a building, but to have the shots be aesthetically pleasing to the viewer's eye. An architectural photographer makes pictures, not takes pictures.
In this session, we will be covering how to better understand Architecture photography and we'll be looking at ways to take some impressive shots and the camera settings to use.
Bokeh for Beginners
Saturday 19 October
Lichfield - 10am - 2 Hours
Jerome Nseebi Halm
The goal of this session is to learn how to add the Bokeh affect to your photos. We will also be working on photography in low light with and with camera flash.
Natural Light Portraits
Saturday 26 October
Lichfield - 10am - 2 Hours
Jerome Nseebi Halm
This meet-up will explore how we can take beautiful portraits using natural light and backgrounds. We will explore how to recognise flattering light and how to manipulate it whilst shooting in a less controlled environment than a studio. We will explore how we can work collaboratively with our subject to achieve a portrait that captures their personality and style. We will also look at posing and setting your subject at ease. Technical learning points will include accurate focusing and metering for skin tones. A model is present during the session.
50mm Lens Meetup
Saturday 02 November
Lichfield - 10am - 2 Hours
Jerome Nseebi Halm
The 50mm lens is one of the flexible and useful lenses in any photographer’s gear bag. It is neither a wide-angle or telephoto lens, but allows the camera to see on the same scale as your eye. As such, it can be used for a variety of styles, from landscape and street photography to portrait and product photography. In this meetup, we’ll review the basic camera settings. We’ll then cover some of the advantages of shooting with a prime lens, and some basic techniques to using the 50mm lens. As always, there will be ample opportunities for you to put your new knowledge into practice.
Beginner's Photography Class
Saturday 09 November
Dinmore Hill - 11am - 3 Hours
Steven Gregory
Ready to learn more about your camera and get out of automatic exposure? Now is your chance!
Join us as we break down your camera to help you learn about shutter speed, aperture, ISO and how these settings affect your exposure.
We will then put your new knowledge to the test with the guidance of a professional photographer.
Winter Landscape Photography Meetup
Saturday 16 November
Milford, Stafford - 10am - 2 Hours
Jerome Nseebi Halm
With fewer leaves on the trees, winter landscape photography presents a range of options for taking stunning photos. We will consider composition, finding shapes and structures, as well as focusing on the finer details in nature at this time of year. Come and explore the wintry pine forests of Cannock Chase in this meetup - all abilities welcome!
