A great way for children to learn how to use different angles and perspectives in photography is to have them look through the view finder as if they were an ant. Keeping their cameras down low and looking at everything from a different position increases their ability to make more creative decisions in their compositions.
It was so sad to say goodbye to some of our Year 6 after school photo club members. Some of them have been coming along to our photo club for a number of years so giving them their journals on the last week was a real treat. At the end of each term we put
Bugs and Bubbles are 2 things that most children love to chase after so they make a great topic to keep our after school photo club kids engaged. We split the group into 2 and whilst one group went off to hunt mini beasts with their cameras set to macro the other group popped their
That mini heat wave a week ago meant that our theme of “water’ for our after school photo club was very welcome. The children had a lot of fun using their waterproof Nikon Coolpix cameras to create some watery images. We brought in some fab reusable water balloons for our students to use. They were easy
If there is one thing our after school photo club kids are good at, it is moving around, so our week photographing “action” came very naturally to them all!! It’s a great way to get rid of a bit of energy after school too! We taught the children to use the burst setting on our
One of the children’ favourite weeks in our After School Photo Club is when they get to bring in their favourite toy to use a subject to photograph. We are always so impressed by the ideas they come up with especially when they work together to make their pictures. They get super creative with their
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