Intentional Composition Through Photography with Ray Schneider (VIRTUAL ONLY!)

We are excited to welcome Ray Schneider with his presentation
Intentional Composition Through Photography,
Photographers and painters alike know that creating more interesting pictures requires perceiving your subject more deeply, capturing its essence, what makes it unique. And if your connection to the scene is heartfelt, even better, because creating great pictures is more than a technical pursuit. Then there is the viewer. How does the viewer perceive the image? Why? How can you affect their perception? So many books are filled with compositional rules, techniques, dos, and don’ts, but how to make sense of it all?

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During this presentation Ray will help you put it all together. Through a discussion of 5 main strategies, he will explain the difference between seeing and perceiving, and share ideas he has come to depend on, many of which come from the world of art and composition, Gestalt, evolutionary, and photographic psychology, for creating more interesting and memorable works.

Agenda for Tuesday, January 13, 2026
6:30 - Zoom Opens for Networking
7:00 - CCR Announcements
Followed by Ray’s Presentation
This meeting will be VIRTUAL ONLY!
Zoom Link:
If you are not a member of the Camera Club of Richmond, please comment below or email Membership.CCRVA@gmail.com and request the Zoom Link and Passcode.

About Our Presenter…
Ray Schneider is a freelance photographer whose images span numerous genres including portrait, street, landscape, animals, and events. An avid traveler, his images come from over 30 countries. He has published a book entitled What the Photographer Sees, available on Amazon and has also recently received a Portfolio Merit Award from Black and White Magazine. Ray teaches photography workshops, exhibits his work, shoots community events, and is a speaker at camera clubs across the country. Prior to becoming a professional photographer, Ray travelled the country as a Chemical Engineer and operations management consultant.
For Ray, seeing like a photographer is to perceive well. It’s creating images that are more than pretty pictures - hopefully - and that trigger the viewer’s inner voice, that suggest a story, that evolve in the consciousness as they’re viewed, that invite a sense of curiosity, that cause one to pause and maybe take a closer look.
You can view Ray’s images at www.rayschneiderphotography.com.