Looking upon the landscape with new perspectives - Nic Stover
Yesterday evening Nic Stover a professional landscape photographer and tour leader gave another inspirational presentation to NDPS who were joined on this occasion by friends from Sheffield Photographic Society.
Nic had been to Norwich before, so this was his second visit by Zoom and he took the opportunity to make a different sort of presentation. Besides numerous examples of his work this time we also got to delve into logistics and planning – an opportunity to look behind the scenes and understand how Nic pulls his successful tours together
In the first part of his talk Nic explained what he called ‘five styles’ of landscape photography and in the second half he talked about planning and logistics. Talking about actually taking photographs he insisted that we should learn to be 'confident and consistent'.
Expounding on creativity in photography Nic spoke of the Wallace Model, preparation, incubation, illumination and verification. Each heading illustrated with beautiful photographs and accompanied with clear examples and explanations. After this he moved on to what he called intimate landscapes; plants, abstracts, night. The plant example was taken on an iPhone from a captured RAW image, beautiful.
After a short break Nic move on to tools for planning to be sure he could get it right in camera. His list of aids to planning was comprehensive - everything from Magic Seaweed to webcams, Google Maps, Gaia GPS, old photography books, campervan rentals and old fashioned spreadsheets to keep everything in check!
A capture clip harness and a handheld strap, a ‘aircraft compliant’ Lowepro back-pack, L brackets and a second camera with a lens attached were also in his must haves for photo shoots.
An exciting evening full of breath taking photography and packed with endless practical advice. Our thanks to Nic - over 60 people from Norwich and Sheffield enjoyed this excellent presentation.
Visit www.stoverphoto.com for full details about Nic’s photography and to sign up to receive his regular newsletter.
About Special Presentations:
The programme from September 2021 through to the end of 2022 is well advanced and has been designed to offer a broad range of excellent speakers who will cover, as in past seasons, a far reaching range of photographic genre. We are delighted to announce that Jane Odell FRPS will open the Autumn season of Special Presentations on Tuewsday 7th September 2021 with a highly illustrated talk during which we shall discover ‘what goes on at the bottom of her garden’.
Every month at Norwich and District Photographic Society there is the opportunity to hear inspirational photographic talks by photographers who are recognised to be at the top of their game and renowned specialists in their field of photography. The quality and range of subjects included in these Special Presentations are we believe unequalled both here in Norfolk and much further afield. Further, arguably alone they more than justify the cost of becoming a member of the Society.