Where art meets photography...
Altered Reality Group
The Altered Reality Group explore forms of photography which use in-camera and post production techniques to explore a creative, more artistic form of imagery.
“Impressions”
Date: 5th October, Time: 8.00pm till 10.00pm
Venue: Long Buckby Rugby Club
Do you want to make images that have a softer or more impressionistic look and feel, or wonder how to introduce more blur into your images?
The Altered Reality Team will be demonstrating a range of techniques both in-camera and in post processing including the use of shallow depth of field, desaturation and paler colouring, blurring, white layers, textures and colour overlays; and tips for editing intentional camera movement images and maybe more as well.
Join us on the night to find out more.
Show and Tell
Date: 14th December, Time: 8.00pm till 10.00pm
Venue: Long Buckby Rugby Club
Come along to the first Show and Tell evening from the APG’s Altered Reality Group. This is an opportunity to share and discuss any of your altered reality images. These can have been taken/created this year or from your back catalogue. We would like you to talk about your chosen images and tell us the how and why of each photograph. There is no limit on the amount of images that you can submit, but we may have to restrict numbers depending on interest on the night.
Images will be shown digitally and should be submitted to Judy Longthorn by the 7th December 2023.
However, we would also appreciate any prints of the same images that you would like to bring along and these can be displayed on easels around the room.
There may even be mince pies.
Michael Kenna Evening
Date: 25th January, Time: 8.00pm till 10.00pm
Venue: Long Buckby Rugby Club
Michael Kenna is a British photographer renowned for his black and white, square-format photographs. As can be seen in the example here and in his gallery, Michael’s images capture the essence of minimalism, tranquillity and ethereal landscape. Often making use of long exposure and strong contrast, his photographs convey a sense of mood and emotion.
The Altered Reality Group is setting a challenge to all APG members to experiment with replicating Michael’s style. There is no time-frame requirement in which your images must have been taken so re-processing images from your back catalogue is fine. There is also no limit to the number of images.
Images will be shown digitally and should be submitted to Eric Tatham by the 18th January 2024.
All are welcome to join us in this first AR event of the New Year. Gosh where does the time go?
Architectural Fine Art
Date: 24th August, Time: 8.00pm till 10.00pm
Venue: Long Buckby Rugby Club
Do you want to take your architectural photography to a whole new creative level?
By understanding and emphasising the direction and quality of light in an image and using a range of post- processing techniques including Gradients, Transform and Selections Tools you will be able to adjust tones and shadows to add greater volume and depth to your images and begin to present a more unique vision of your work.
We will also be looking at architectural infra-red photography and maybe many more as well.
If this sounds your sort of thing then join us for the evening.
Intentional Camera Movement Workshop
Date: 29th June, Time: 7pm,
Venue: Brampton Halt, Chapel Brampton, Northants, UK.
Intentional Camera Movement is a technique for creating unique images that have a more impressionistic or dreamy effect.
It involves deliberately moving the camera whilst the shutter is open – therefore a longer shutter speed than normal is required.
On a bright day this is likely to require the use of a neutral density filter to achieve this effect.
We will meet in the gardens of the Brampton Halt pub, (https://thebramptonhalt.co.uk), weather permitting, between 7.00 and 9.00 to enjoy some international camera movement photography. A crib sheet of tips and techniques will be provided before-hand and members of the AR team will be around to offer expertise and support. As the sun goes down we can share a chat and a drink and maybe even images for those that feel brave enough.
No specialist equipment will be required.
Light Painting with Eric Tatham
Date: 20th April, Time: 8pm, Venue: Long Buckby Club House
Light painting is a term used to describe a variety of photographic techniques that have in common the idea of moving a light source in front of the camera to produce an image.
In April's Altered Reality event we lookied at a specialised example of this where a low-level light source such as a small torch is used to illuminate sections of a scene from different directions. Typically, but not exclusively, the scene is a still life.
A number of long (20-30 second) exposures were then combined in software to produce the final image.
Perhaps the most prominent practitioner is the American photographer, Harold Ross. There are numerous examples of his work online, including that of his students.
"A Journey to Abstraction"
Date: 23rd February. 8.00pm,
Format: Online (Zoom)
The evening included a lookback at the beginnings of both abstract art and abstract photography, and moved on to provide examples of images and in-camera techniques for photographing "found abstracts". Looking at our own abstract imagery we then explored several post-processing techniques for producing an more abstract look and feel to images. It finished with a "challenge" for all members who want to explore this type of photography.