Tag: 2026
August: Night / Family
This month’s meetup brought a wave of fresh energy, with several new participants joining us for the first time — welcome! Our conversation kicked off with Paul, who shared his knowledge of infrared photography and brought along some stunning examples of his own work, setting an inspired tone for the evening. Riding that enthusiasm, we…
July: Traveling / Symmetry
July opened with a conversation about atmosphere — how to translate the feel of a place into an image. It’s harder than it sounds: what we experience standing there doesn’t automatically carry over to a viewer who wasn’t. Members shared how sounds, smells, and other sensory impressions shape the atmosphere they try to capture, even…
June: Water / People at Play
This month’s opening conversation circled around a simple question: what do you want to get better at — the technical side, or the way you approach a shoot? It turns out the answer says a lot about where each of us is on our photographic path. For FotoFokus, the themes were Water and People at…
May: Golden Hour / Chaos
A smaller group this month — travel kept a few members away — but the contributions more than made up for it. The two themes were Golden Hour and Chaos. Spring came through for Golden Hour. Members headed out in the evenings to catch that low, warm light, though more than a few were reminded…
Roll for Chaos
This month’s FotoFokus theme is Chaos. My first instinct was to go photograph something chaotic — crowds, noise, disorder. Then I thought: what if the process of choosing the photo was chaotic too? Inspired by Roll for Sandwich, I put together a dice-based generator with three rolls — subject, approach, constraint — that combine into…
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
April 26 was a special day for the photography community. Enthusiasts around the world celebrated this yearly event with images taken using lensless cameras — relying on the simplest optical principle: light passing through a tiny hole projects an inverted image onto a light-sensitive surface on the opposite side. No glass, no optics — just…
Golden Hour Photography
Whether you shoot portraits, landscapes, or architecture — golden hour is one of the most reliable tools in your kit. Here is how to use it well. Golden hour refers to the window shortly after sunrise and before sunset, when sunlight sits low on the horizon. The light is warmer, softer, and more directional than…
April: Rural Life / Patterns
April’s FotoFokus opened with a conversation about color filters and how they shape contrast in black and white images — a topic that found its way into the submissions in more ways than one. Rural Life brought the warmer weather outside: members explored the local countryside as it comes back to life, and a few…
Call for Volunteers — FotoMarathon 2026
**Join the team behind FotoMarathon 2026 in Northampton! Volunteers needed before and on September 12 for this exciting photography community event.**
March: Architecture Details / Body
Before sharing the month’s images, we spent some time with the biology of seeing. The eye evolved in a world of color — nature offers no black and white, only wavelengths our brains interprets. So when we look at a monochrome image, something interesting happens: stripped of color’s emotional pull, the brain shifts gear. Contrast,…