4th April with Chris Warren

TENBY AND DISTRICT CAMERA CLUB

Six months ago, Chris Warren, a commercial photographer gave club members an insight to his ‘Twilight’ range of images. On Thursday 4^th April, Chris was back, this time giving members an insight to his commissioned work and his stock photography.

He explained that with the commissioned work the client would give him a brief or script and he would then visit, look, study and using timetables for trains, buses and ferries, ordinance survey maps to look for vantage points and how to get there, obtaining permissions to cross fields and alike.

Chris has been commissioned by Welsh Assembly, W.D.A, Cadw, National Park and Arriva Trains to name but a few. A lot of his work for the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park can be seen in the 2013 edition of Coast to Coast.

The subjects vary from client to client, one shoot he recalled was images of cruise ships around Wales, the most difficult part of any shoot is weather, you are all set, you have picked your vantage point, the coaches have dispersed to various locations and then it rains; you hope the weather breaks, if not you start all over again.

Following a coffee break Chris explained to club members ‘what stock photography’ is; “what makes a good stock photograph, it’s just a photo, not a second class photo or snap, not fine art, but a photograph that has a commercial use”. Chris then explained that each photograph had a text – keywords which had to tell a story, so that the agency could than select by key words images that were on offer.

Chris showed several images of his stock collection around Britain and Europe. He concluded by saying “Above all always enjoy your photography and have fun”.

In the absent of the Chairman Neil Thomas (Vice Chairman) thanked Chris and looked forward to him talking to the club in the future.

18^th April – Painting with Light – a talk by Rob Lloyd FRPS DPAGB.