My Street Photography

This week NDPS members were very happy to receive a breath-taking presentation from Dex, a professional graphic designer and an 'amateur' photographer living and working in Sydney, Australia. Dex took us through his life and his all-consuming 'hobby'.

The standout features from this presentation were firstly that Dex only used an iphone camera and secondly only produced black and white images - probably a difficult set of parameters for the average photographer but for Dex, not a problem.

Dex's initial photographic inspiration was drawn, when a child, from his grandfather's camera and photos, and these inspirations have lasted the whole of his life. He talked of his journey through film, DSLRs and finally only using iphones. He said that his work as a graphic designer was separate from his photography but stood him in good stead from a compositional point of view.

He catalogued his photo collection using headings such as Beautiful Light, Creative Captures, Layered Composition, Graphic Shapes, Reflections and Decisive Moments. For each of these headings Dex displayed a whole series of his photographs. These pictures included those he selected for publication in his own book, #mysydney and those photographs selected by Photography Magazine for his award Photographer of The Year.

Dex left us with the exhortations to be inspired, be creative, follow our instincts, think outside the box, break the rules and most important of all Do Have Fun..!

A tremendous evening of first rate photography and, judging by the questions asked at the end of the presentation and by those comments left in the comments box, an outstanding evening enjoyed by well over forty members of the Society.

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