Creative Collage in the style of Sarah Anne Johnson

Creative Collage in the style of Sarah Anne Johnson

This term we tried a new theme ‘Creative Collage’ at after school photography club. We were inspired by the amazing creative collage work of Sarah Anne Johnson who created amazing collages using photographs and other mixed media to change or add to a scene. We showed the children the photographs to inspire them and get

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Creating a Mirror Image

Creating a Mirror Image

Creating a mirror image is such a fun photography theme to try. We love teaching it at after school photography club as it gives the kids a chance to see the world in a different way and get creative! To inspire the children, we showed them photographs by famous photographers Danny Lyon, Gueorgui Pinkhassov & Nikos Economopoulos.

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Autumn Photography Fun!

Autumn Photography Fun!

Autumn photography fun at after school club! This week at after school club the kids were having lots of Autumn photography fun! Autumn is a wonderful season for photography, the colours are vivid and the light is soft. To inspire our students photographs we showed them images taken by famous photographers. This week these images

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Duke of Edinburgh Award Skills

Duke of Edinburgh Award Skills

Duke of Edinburgh Award Skills Choices ______________________________ Since 1956, The Duke of Edinburgh Award Skills has been a benchmark in the development of skills for young people. The awards currently encompass 144 nations and 287,937 young people – numbers which are growing each year. The Duke began to formulate the awards in 1954 at the

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Black and White Photographs

Black and White Photographs

At our after school photography club this week, the children have been taking Black and White photographs. The theme this week was all about black and white photographs. Students were taught where to find the black and white setting on their camera and how to use it effectively. Black and white photographs introduce more emotion

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Freezing movement at photography club!

Freezing movement at photography club!

This week at our after school photography clubs our students have been freezing movement! Freezing movement is a fun photography skill to learn. At our after school photography clubs in Surrey we use Nikon Coolpix W100 cameras. These cameras have a setting called ‘Take a series of pictures’. (However, if you don’t have this camera

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