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Paul is engineering a new lifestyle based around capturing atmospheric images on a very wide scale. Some of his mounted work is already so big it might not fit comfortably into your average living room and his plans for the future involve images so massive that only corporate buildings will be able to take them. All this does not mean simply a magnification in size. Some of the one metre-plus wide images Paul brought with him to our meeting were taken with a 'lowly' three megapixel camera. However with as many as eight photographs electronically blended together with a process called stitching, the resulting images had higher definition and better all-over detail than anything taken with a conventional camera and merely scaled to size. Of course Paul doesn't use such a small camera for most of his work but it did illustrate his point. Moving on, Paul told us about some of the skills of his photography and some of the things that can so easily go wrong. Over tea Paul took questions from members interested to emulate his work and told us about his website, www.paulsmithimages.com which also contains a range of useful advice as well as a gallery of images. The next meeting is on Tuesday May 24th when
Mr Ron Eaton of Plymouth will judge the third Merit Open competition
of the year. As always, visitors or potential members are welcome to
attend and further information plus directions are available elsewhere
on this website.
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