Week 6 – Autumn!

Week 6 – Autumn!

We are keeping it seasonal this week at our After school Photography clubs, with the theme being “Autumn!” The children were shown some photographs by famous photographers to inspire them. The photographers we chose this week are Dennis Stock, Ian Berry and Peter Marlow. Autumn is such an exciting time of year to get snapping because

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Week 5 at Sharp Shots after school club: Action!

Week 5 at Sharp Shots after school club: Action!

Our after school photography clubs this week have been focusing on the oh so popular theme of “Action!” The children have been jumping, spinning, cartwheeling and flying to try and create that perfect action shot. The children have been playing around with putting their Nikon Coolpix cameras on “take a series of pictures” or “self timer” modes. These

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Lights, camera…. ACTION!

One of the favourite themes at our after school photography clubs is “Action!”. The children love playing around with the ‘take a series of pictures’ and ‘self timer’ settings on the Nikon Coolpix cameras. These settings allow the children to capture that perfect action shot. The ‘take a series of pictures’ mode means the children

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Week 4 – You are an ant!!

Week 4 – You are an ant!!

This week at our After school photography clubs we have mostly been crawling on our tummies, laying on our backs, crouching down and climbing up… pretending to be ants! We asked the children to think about what they would see if they were an ant, and to photograph it! Putting your camera on the Macro setting

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Shapes and Textures

This week at our after school photography clubs we are focusing on the theme “Shapes and Textures”. We are encouraging our students to find shapes and textures that could quite often be missed or unseen, teaching them how to look more carefully to spot these hidden compositions. Photographing textures can be really effective when using

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I like to photograph…

I like to photograph…

We are so excited to be back with our after school photo clubs! Our first theme of the Autumn term is “I like to take photos of…” where the kids get to explore different features of their Nikon cameras, and take photos of everything and anything they like! We showed our students a few photos from acclaimed

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