Photographing Blur at After School Club

Photographing Blur at After School Club

This week at our after school photography club the students have been photographing blur! Blur is the topic for this weeks clubs. We usually talk to the children about how blur is what they want to avoid, but this week we have been experimenting with using it to create interesting, abstract images. We were encouraging

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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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Toy Photography at After School Photo Club

Toy Photography at After School Photo Club

This week at After School Photography Club the children were learning all about Toy Photography Toy photography is so much fun! The kids love photographing their toys in different ways to make them appear different to how we usually see them. We challenged them to photograph their toy from every angle, set up scenes or

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Action Photography at After School Club

Action Photography at After School Club

This week at after school photography club the kids are learning all about Action Photography! Action Photography is one of the kids favourite things to learn. They love running and jumping and capturing their friends frozen in time. To inspire their images for this weeks theme we showed them photographs by photographers Philippe Halsman and

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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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