Noel Taylor Shows His Mix of Art and Photography

Barry Camera Club's Friday meeting was hosted by the club's vice-chair, Noel Taylor who showed a wide variety of work blending art and photography.

Noel has been involved in photography since he was 7, but also trained as an artist and this was demonstrated with a huge variety of images based on photographs, but then enhanced using drawing, model making techniques and digital editing.

Some of the works took many days to create, often using hand-drawn elements created on a graphic tablet. Noel remarked that he would come back to the images many months later with new ideas and techniques and revise them again.

Many of the images involved Noel's partner (herself a model), with a number shot in their living room using very simple studio equipment.

The entire presentation contained only 2 images shot on a top-end digital SLR, with the majority of shots taken with compact or "bridge" cameras; Noel noting that the versatility and lightness of such equipment more than made up for their, in his view, minor disadvantages.

Noel concluded the talk with some more conventional images of rock bands, demonstrating use of natural lighting and the difficulties of shooting under such conditions.

Barry Camera Club meets every Friday at 7:30PM at the St. Francis Millennium Centre, Porth-Y-Castell, Barry. Prospective members are invited to come along and see meet us for a small fee at the door of £1.50. The full programme is on our website at http://www.barrycameraclub.org.uk.