Dorchester — Jul 11th 2017

Guest speaker and professional photographer Clive Whaley offered our audience (38 members) stunning photos using an iPhone and explained his concepts and methods. A serious runner, Clive can easily take a good camera with him by carrying his iPhone in an arm band. His runs take him along our wonderful coastline and many of the photos were in familiar settings such as West Bay, often including people whether in groups or singly, always catching the eye and triggering the imagination to interpret the scene.
Apart from his iPhone 6S and armband the only other equipment Clive uses is a mini-tripod. The iPhone lense has good depth of field and Clive showed how to use this to capture a specific close-up feature e.g. field mushrooms in a wider landscape or the heart of a flower by tapping on the yellow focus square on screen before shooting. He never uses the digital zoom as it reduces the image quality. A good example was his shot of a dandelion seed head taken at ground level in a meadow, the dandelion in perfect focus, with the background slightly blurred. His mini-tripod used with the timer avoids camera shake. The timer can also help avoid camera shake in a slow shutter hand-held shot. Clive showed several impressive panoramic shots using the ‘Pano’ mode. He first positions his body so as to achieve the panoramic arc without needing to shuffle round and then moves the camera slowly.
He uses Adobe Lightroom to file and edit his photos, and he showed us a typical Lightroom adjustment using the histogram. EXIF reference data and uses were discussed. He tends not to use the GPS location mode (for privacy reasons) particularly if a photo is made available to the public with EXIF data still attached.
Clive also brought along his high spec Olympus OM-D camera — much to the approval of the photographer enthusiasts amongst us.
Clive ended the evening showing a movie he had made of his (and Euan's) late friend Michael Harvey extolling the virtues of Hydrant labels in their settings around Bridport. Michael was a distinguished letter cutter and book jacket designer.

Please see 15 July bulletin re missing waterproof jacket.

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