Thursday evening comes round again and last night's talk was delivered by David Osbourne FRPS EFIAP, a professional wildlife photographer.
His web site is well worth a look.
Well, we can judge a photographer by how uncomfortable the seats feel and whether our neighbour falls asleep and I only started to feel numb bummed after the first 2 hours. I think Eric stayed awake most of the time although, or perhaps because of, after a swimming pool mix up he confided that he was "Going Commando."
He's very interested in flying things and has an aviation background, David not Eric. The stunning pictures of large birds in flight were amazing, particularly one shot against the sun in which the bone structure of the wing was silhouetted in an almost Xray like way.
He pays particular attention to composition and background, many of his pictures are taken in portrait with the birds' wings spanning the diagonals. As expected they were pin sharp, spot on depth of field and exposure, the printed pictures must be stunning and the projector probably did not do them justice.
He showed us pictures from the Canadian Rockies landscape, aviation with many pictures showing old aircraft from museum collections, he likes moving water, wildlife from the Falklands, lovely plants in particular rare orchids, some shots of Californian buildings and wildlife.
Amazingly perfect images, and so consistent as well. very well presented, but I would still like to know how he got his exposures as right as he did, despite his comment that you can always tweak the exposure by up to 2 stops in Photoshop. Well worth the look, but perhaps a little too long to view so many images in one go. I think there was something like 225000kb of images, so many.
ReplyDeleteThe flowers and wildlife were particularly good, such consistent backgrounds!
Sorry I missed the sleep in !!
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