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…
This entry is a summary of the article “Street Smarts” by Graeme Green, published in the magazine Amateur Photographer, June 2026. The summery was written by Pranab Banerjee. Sean Tucker and Joshua K Jackson are two influential street photographers who share their secrets about the art form. They discuss their approaches as ‘fishers’ (waiting for…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
In black and white, every color becomes a shade of grey. A filter lets you decide which shade. A filter transmits its own color and blocks the complementary ones — removing selectively to create separation between tones that would otherwise merge into the same grey. The choice of filter depends entirely on what you want…
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…
