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Photography Course
Posted by Mike Thomas on 1st August 2008
Several of the older children recently benefited from a photography course kindly organised by Barbara Walton. She has submitted this report along with a link to some of the photos that the children took:
“As professional news photographers based in Thailand for epa european pressphoto agency (www.epa.eu/), Narong Sangnak and I don’t have much time for passing on skills, but we enjoyed a great day teaching a group of BaanGerda photo enthusiasts the basics of taking a picture during a day-long workshop.
After Narong’s thorough theory lesson, and assisted by photographer Udo Weitz and Narong’s wife Prang, we worked with small teams in the field, encouraging and directing their portrait, landscape and self chosen assignments. The budding young photographers got to use Canon and Nikon professional equipment, and soon picked up that learning how to shoot pictures is often about re-learning how to look from behind a camera, and allowing yourself to be adventurous, curious, and bold enough to give a photo idea a try - and see if it works.
By the end of the session all the kids were moving their bodies and not just standing to shoot, getting closer to their subject and really searching their home BaanGerda environment to find where interesting light and nice locations were for picture taking.
We then saw a very enthusiastic group shown how to edit their shoots and work off their pictures - crop, tone and save for group discussion. While we only scratched the surface we saw some great talent emerge!”
Barbara Walton
View some of the children’s photos
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May 14th, 2010 at 12:30 am
Those are some extraordinary photographs, wish mine were that decent!
May 14th, 2010 at 1:39 am
Outstanding! I’m very envious of those photos, I wish I could do as well.Those photos took a lot of aptitude to produce, well done. I’ve bookmarked this site.
June 10th, 2010 at 6:08 am
nice work dude, thanks for share…
Photography Course with Barbara Walton from european pressphoto agency | Baan Gerda