- Steampunk & Portraits at Didcot Railway Centre, Saturday 2nd March 2019
Steampunk & Portraits at Didcot Railway Centre, Saturday 2nd March 2019
Victoriana meets Science Fiction amongst the old platform and engine shed at Didcot Railway Centre. Join us for a day where eccentricity and hisroty come together.
£69.00
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About this event
In the historic setting of a 1932 engine shed and surrounding traditional platforms we will be capturing a group of quirky steam-punkers as they show off their elaborate outfits for what promises to be a great day of photography! With the use of smoke machines and lighting we will be able to create eye catching and atmospheric imagery with the wonderful backdrops of this steam centre!
For those that are not aware of this almost cult like a arena, Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction or science fantasy that incorporates technology and aesthetic designs inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Although its literary origins are sometimes associated with the cyberpunk genre, steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the 19th century's British Victorian, in a post-apocalyptic future during which steam power has maintained mainstream usage, or in a fantasy world that similarly employs steam power. Therefore, steampunk may be described as neo-Victorian.
It is fair to say that Steampunk most recognizably features anachronistic technologies or retro-futuristic inventions
as people in the 19th century might have envisioned them, and is likewise
rooted in the era's perspective on fashion, culture, architectural style, and
art. Such technology may include fictional machines like those found in
the works of H. G.Wells and Jules Verne. Other examples of steampunk
contain alternative-history-style presentations of such technology
as lighter-than-air airships, analogue computers, or such
digital mechanical computers as Charles
Babbage's Analytical Engine. Steampunk may also incorporate additional
elements from the genres of fantasy, horror, historical fiction,
alternate history, or other branches of speculative fiction, making it
often a hybrid genre. The first known appearance of the
term steampunk was in 1987, though it now retroactively refers to
many works of fiction created as far back as the 1950s or 1960s.
Steampunk also refers to any of the artistic styles, clothing fashions, or subcultures that have developed from the aesthetics of steampunk fiction, Victorian-era fiction, art nouveau design, and films from the mid-20th century. Various modern utilitarian objects have been moddled by individual artisans into a pseudo-Victorian mechanical "steampunk" style, and a number of visual and musical artists have been described as steampunk.
Event cost £69.00 per person.
EVENT REQUIREMENTS
Equipment:
Camera
Lenses- suggest bringing lens lengths between 16-200mm
Spare batteries
Memory cards
Photography Knowledge:
Basic to advanced
Fitness Level:
Low
Other
Appropriate outdoor clothing and walking footwear