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To enjoy Peter Stevens’ successful Fellowship application, visit his website (see below). Peter Stevens FRPS
Peter’s preferred subject matter is landscapes and cityscapes, and he is excited by the way that Photoshop can be an integral part of the creative process alongside the camera. He is currently the chair of Harpenden Photographic Society. He uses a Nikon D750 with Nikkor zoom lenses, and is exploring the mirrorless option. Enjoy his successful Fellowship panel on his website.
“I was delighted to be awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society (FRPS) in Fine Art Photography in November 2018. It was many years ago that I gainedmyAssociateship of the ARPS and in the intervening years, whilst I had aspired to a Fellowship, it had always seemed out of my grasp, too big a step. But that changed. “Once the core idea became clear to me, my Fellowship panel of pictures came together very quickly, in less than a year, and I passed first time. “It all started in the summer of 2017 and developed in stages. I had been experimenting with multiple exposures and was really taken with the blurred, impressionist effect it produced. There were definitely some technical hurdles to overcome, with many failures on the way. “I know some people take multiple exposures ‘in camera’ but having tried this approach I found it really didn’t work for me. I now much prefer taking individual photographs and then blending them in Photoshop. This give much more flexibility, although it is astonishing how many completely different final images can be produced by blending the same, say, ten photographs in different ways.
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Above Photographers need to demonstrate outstanding and distinguished photographic ability to be awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society
“The panel is titled City Break, and the idea was to capture the experience of a visitor to London. Typically, a visitor has just a fewdays to see all the attractions and tries to cram in as much as they can in the limited time available.”
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