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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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#Napowrimo #Blogging101 #Day11 I performed a magic trick with my little electric conjuring box and people watched with delight as a flash of light, burning bright turned into a myriad of colours.
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in response to the weekly photo challenge Landscape (Photograph : (c) 2007 Brian F Kirkham) Lakeland Harbour and Hills, Penrith, Cumbria I was looking out for the fluffy white clouds in the Cumbrian Skies – but got a lovely view of the hills from this viewpoint. Blue skies and wonderful scenery – a lovely place…
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in response to the prompt Perspective (Photograph, Looking up – Mediacity UK: Salford (c) Brian F Kirkham 2013) You gain a particular perspective , looking up in the sky. I don’t know what it is, perhaps its noticing the flocks of birds flying in squadron in the morning sky. Or perhaps its the reflections of glass…
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Half-Light “Everybody dance into the light”….Dance into the light – P.Collins, 1996. A Mug of something magical – normally my mug of hot cocoa from whittards!!! (Photograph : Brian F Kirkham) It’s said that a black hole swallows up every last bit of light around it. The same can be said for a Bokeh effect Lens…
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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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Photography@BASIC – Ed.5 Salford, 9th March 2016 Today’s session involved creating ‘reminders’ for our cameras. We were each given an envelope with tags with the common functions of our cameras and each of us had to write down how to get each function on our camera. How to switch on Flash, what modes were…
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