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Photography is a wonderful and rewarding hobby that can be a satisfying, life-long creative endeavor.
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We all like to travel, and to take photographs, but it isn’t necessary to travel far to indulge in photography. Your own yard and surrounding communities can offer wonderful photographic opportunities, that we can all enjoy despite the travel prohibitions that the COVID pandemic has imposed.
This lecture will highlight some of the rich photograph opportunities offered in Somerset, and surrounding counties within a twenty to thirty minutes drive that still allow one to be responsible and socially distant.
In this program, photographic “one-off” opportunities, and seasonal themes, returning to the same site in different months of the year, will be described. Exposure considerations and lenses for those with DLSR’s will be discussed as will low-light and time exposure photography.
The lecture will conclude with some lighthouse photographs around New Jersey and nationally that happens to be a personal passion of the photographer presenting this program.
Presenter: Gary Martin has been taking photographs for approximately the past 60 years, beginning with a Kodak Brownie camera, then a succession of first Pentax and then Nikon film cameras, culminating with a Nikon F5. He explored low light photography beginning in his film camera days, learning about exposure and things like the creative use of reciprocity failure when shooting Fuji slide film, applying his analytical scientific training in his photography. As photographic technology evolved, he migrated to digital camera bodies, and continues to use several Nikon DSLR’s for his photographic work, employing lens that range from an 8 mm fish-eye lens to long telephoto lenses. While living in Michigan, he was regular photo article contributor to "Great Laker" magazine, and has more than 20 magazine covers to his credit, many of them devoted to photographs shot in extreme weather and low-light conditions.
With the dangers and restrictions on travel imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, he has shifted from photographing far flung and often remote lighthouses along our coasts and other countries to photographic themes in Somerset and the surrounding counties that will serve as the focus of this presentation.
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