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Category: BASIC
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I could have sworn a pack of imperial stormtroopers passed me more than once :)
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The world belongs, to those who look at the glass and say: What’s up with this Glass? Excuse me? Excuse me ? This is my glass ? I don’t think so. My Glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!
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11th May 2016 In today’s photography session, we’ve been learning about lighting effects with flowers to create some striking and wonderful pictures. The lights were hidden away behind a soft linen mesh which allowed the light to shine through it whilst hiding the lights themselves. This concentrated the light on the flower head itself –…
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Salford, 4th May This afternoon I’ve been helping out at the Imperial War museum North, after discussing the next project with BASICs photography group. The plan is to produce another exhibition in the centre from our work over their year. I covered the main gallery today with two fellow volunteers. The information station was set…
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Today has seen me between the Brain and Spinal Injury Centre in Salford and Imperial War Museum North on the banks of the Quays in Trafford. I brought along two cameras to BASIC today, My Sony DSC Bridge and my Samsung WB 250 The Garden at the centre is just coming into bloom, with…
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27th April 2016 Location: The Enchanted Garden, Brain and Spinal injury Centre, Salford. Today in BASIC’s photography class, we’ve been practicing some Close-up techniques as well as learning how to “Frame” an Image. Upon agreeing a subject – we headed out into BASICs Garden to try out the theory of framing an image in…
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The other week, as part of my photography sessions I spent time away from the Bridge camera to produce some reminder cards to use in my photography should I forget how to perform an operation on it and I haven’t got access to the manual. I’ve had my DSC-H300 for a bit now, but as…
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Salford, 23rd March 2016 I’ve been busy in BASICs photography class today – practising the art of Bokeh. Bokeh’s where you throw your light source out of focus on your camera to create an effect. This picture was taken with my Samsung WB-250F. In order to achieve the effect there had to be adequate distance…
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A Morning of Still Life, 2nd March 2016 All shots taken by Brian F Kirkham at the Photography Class, Brain & Spinal Injury Centre in Salford (UK) Camera used in Session : Sony DSC – H300 with Tripod In this session we’ve been using the tripod and lights to create some close up still life photography.…
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This weeks photography class at BASIC in Salford, involved taking photographs through an object. The scenes were placed behind a Glass Ball and the pictures were shot through the ball. The images obscured depending on the angle of the shots taken. The Miniature image captured through the sphere a copy of the picture behind it.…
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