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.

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