Frame within a frame

Frame within a frame

This week it is all about framing in our after school photography clubs! We are using a piece of mount board as a literal frame to help physically frame up a photograph, and photographing things close up and far away, using multiple frames, working together, and framing shadows and clouds. Here are a few shots from

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summer term after school photography club

summer term after school photography club

There was a lot of excitement this week with the start of the summer term children’s photography club! This week’s theme was ‘My Camera’ and we encouraged children to familiarise themselves with our lovely Nikon Coolpix S32 cameras – how to turn the camera on, how to use the zoom, how to focus, change between different photo styles and re-play

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Brooklands Museum

Brooklands Museum

During this half term we ran another children’s class at the wonderful Brooklands Museum in Weybridge. Our photography courses for kids are designed to teach children more about composition, the camera mechanics and most importantly, how to take a great photograph! One of the best things about Brooklands Museum is that we can show the children how

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Painting with light

Painting with light

In this week’s after school photography club we had a very exciting theme for the children to work with, called “painting with light”. The students have been using flash lights to literally write their names, draw outlines, hearts and spirals in their photos. We explained to the children how to use the “firework” setting on

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Week 3 of Photo Club

Week 3 of Photo Club

We have some more great examples from our “Winter” theme at last week’s after school photography clubs where the children really learned how to think outside the box. Due to the lack of snow, ice or Christmas, which is what the children thought of when we said the word “Winter”, they made use of the camera’s

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