Photographing along the Thames

Photographing along the Thames

Capturing the Thames, photography course for teens On Saturday our teens photography course was all about capturing life along the Thames. Richmond has such a rich diversity of things to photograph so it makes for a really fun and interesting photography course. We started the course by talking about how a camera takes a photo,

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End of Summer term photo party

End of Summer term photo party

It’s the end of Summer term photo party! WOW! What a term it has been. We’ve had themes like Toy photography, action photography, ants perspective, Inspired by Martin Parr, water, hide & seek and more! Our end of term photo party is always a brilliant celebration of the students work. They each receive a journal

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Photographing Bugs and Bubbles

Photographing Bugs and Bubbles

This week at after school photography club we’ve been photographing bugs and bubbles! Both bugs and bubbles are fast moving and hard to photograph so this theme is a real challenge for our students. They needed to use the ‘take a series of pictures’ setting on their Nikon Coolpix cameras. This setting allows them to

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Capturing Colour at Borde Hill Garden

Capturing Colour at Borde Hill Garden

His half term we were at Borde Hill Garden in West Sussex! On this Capturing colour photography course the kids & teens learnt how capture the colour of Borde Hill’s blossoms and gardens through understanding camera mechanics and composition. They also learnt which camera settings to use when and how to take sharp, super colourful

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Inspired by Martin Parr

Inspired by Martin Parr

This week at our after school photography clubs we are looking at the work of Martin Parr. Martin Parr is our inspiration for this weeks theme. He uses bright vivid colours in his images which make them really eye catching and interesting. We wanted to encourage our after school club kids to look at his

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An ants perspective

An ants perspective

This week at after school photography clubs the kids are learning all about photographing from an ants perspective! If you were an ant, what would you see? That’s the question we were posing to our after school photography club kids this week. Perspective is all about changing your point of view to make something appear

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