Tuesday saw us having an evening with professional photographer Claire Carter.
Claire in her own words:-
Passionate landscape photographer who also shoots any genre when it presents itself.
Seriously working with her camera for about 17 years.
Known as cARTerART on the web.
http://www.carterart.co.uk/
Claire runs a lot of workshops, landscapes, birds of prey, flora and macro. Next year she will be starting to work with Northshots Photo Adventures. On one of her workshops a client said there was a lack of challenge in taking landscapes, which got her to thinking.
She explained she has a love of landscapes overall which give her an emotional high more so than other genres. It’s all about looking for the light regardless of the subject, as the light is constantly moving, and can change an image in an instant.
Living in south Shropshire, a lot of the time, she doesn’t move far from home, but due to seasonal changes, she doesn’t have to. She uses apps such as the Photographers Ephemeris, which helps locate where the sun will be. She’s a big advocate of working your local patch, especially locations that locals will recognise as soon as they see the image. Her local patch is the Teme Valley, which is constantly changing due to the light, weather and seasons. Every season has a jewel, such as poppy season, heather season and of course Autumn.
Claire showed us numerous images from her Force of Nature series, snow and ice, sea, wind, clouds, fleeting light, storms, aurora, rivers and falls. She started with her local patch, then moved on to Lofoten which brought it’s own challenges with frequent snow storms. A passion of hers, has been photographing the Aurora over the last 5 years, which for her is the ultimate in action photography. Claire showed us a slideshow of some amazing Aurora images. For anybody interested in this particular subject, Claire has written a helpful article about photographing the aurora if you follow this link:-
http://220135.mrsitecloud.com/article:-photographing-the-aurora.
Claire finished off the evening with a slideshow of Mists of South Shropshire, around Clee Hill.
And left us with the thought that landscape photography is NOT about things that are static!
