Back behind the Bridge

Animals, BASIC, Photography

Location : BASIC Clicks Base, Portacabin, Brain & Spinal Injury Centre, Salford

Date : 14th July 2017

Camera : Sony DSC-H300 (No Tripod Required)

Diving over a tree!

We’ve been playing with Objects and Backdrops today – and the toy cars!

Continuing on from last week we set up our shots on the stations before taking the shots with our camera

Campervan on the beach

Using the clips from old magazines and the toy cars produced some really good shots and saved us the cost of location (Hee Hee!)

Pointing out the birds!

I revisited this picture from the last session. Using the pencils as “Pointers”. I hadn’t spotted this till after taking the pic, but I created a “Sunrise” effect by marking them out.

Sat on a Polar Bear

As well as the lego men, Graham, one of the group brought in some railway model men

this allowed the group to be a bit more adventurous with our photos….

Convoy 🙂

Land of the Giant Polar Bears 🙂

Off into the Wild blue Yonder

and here’s a couple when I got home 🙂 Created along the same principles – studio a bit more rustic than that of BASIC Clicks…but objects and subject matter stayed the same (Astronomy book provided a little colour!)

Heading home from the moon

Riding across Jupiter!

If you’ve got any favourites – feel free to let me know!

Back in the Studio

BASIC, Photography

Brain and Spinal Injury Centre, Salford

7th July 2017

We were back in the base camp of BASIC Clicks photography group on Friday creating scenes with backgrounds, toy cars and figures

taking every day items and creating something new, from behind the camera lens.

Another show at BASICs sponsor, John Lewis will be on display soon.

Here’s some of my favourites from Fridays session. Created with the trusty Sony Bridge camera.

Magnified

Framed

Wine and Roses

Sailing boats

Feeding the Heffalumps

Animals, BASIC, Photography

Feeding the Heffalumps at the Virtual Zoo!

Another Photographic from the archive – without the need for a soaking at any of the Zoo’s in the Northwest of England!

Amazing what you can do with a magazine and some toy figures….

Created by Inky at the Portacabin. Home of the BASIC Clicks photography group.

Camera : Sony DSC – H300

Additional Model (sic) – provided by playmobil.

Riding around in Outer Space

Transient

Nature, Photography, Poetry

Transient

gathered together

waiting on the western wind

dandelion seed

ready for the off

travelling on the airflow

dancing under clouds

landing in a green

settling down to sleep

new flowers take form

The son of plot a

sets root growing in plot b

as tree line grows

Out in the Garden

BASIC, Flowers, Garden, Photography

Friday 19th May 2017

Basic Clicks Photography Group

Location : Base camp, the Enchanted Garden, Brain & Spinal Injury Centre, Salford, UK

Camera used : DSC-H300

Today, we’ve been out in the Enchanted Garden @ BASIC. Capturing some brilliant images for use in a future display. Mostly these were roses , but also the wildflowers and poppies planted throughout the garden.

Wildflowers

Flowers in the Garden

Yellow Rose

Pink Rose

Rosebud

Cornflower

Purple Flower

Yellow Rose front on

Yellow Rose Centre

Dandelion Clock

Waterfalls and Closeups

BASIC, Garden, Photography

Friday 3rd March 2017

Another session of Basic Clicks, the photography group at Brain and Spinal Injury Centre in Salford

Carrot Soup

Before proceeding with the photography – I enjoyed a nice bowl of soup in the cafeteria….and took a pic of it….

White Roses, Purple Flowers

The session worked primarily on composition, and setting up shots using our various cameras. I liked working with the fountain, but I like my close ups of the flowers.

Fountain

Heather

Flowers, Close up

Abstract view, Waterfall

Bearable

BASIC, Photography, Toys, Tradition

#coloryourworld #cyw #fuzzywuzzybrown

Location : Brain and Spinal Injury Centre (BASIC), Salford

Date : 27th January 2017

An Afternoon of Close ups and scene changes today at BASICs photography workshop.

Fortunately, our Models weren’t that overly demanding!

The workshop took place in the centre Café – Food for thought .

We had some fun and games in a still life session with some old bears! These bears had been collected over the years by our tutor – and formed a core part of a marvellous still life session. The bears were backlit and positioned on their thinking spots before we took the shots. I like the end results we got from this session.

Before taking each shot, we set up our “Stars” on their stage and adjusted lights and tripods accordingly – but being used to using my Sony Cybershot I mostly went for the point and shoot approach….I liked what came off the camera chip 🙂

Adventures in LEGO world

Character, Humour, Photography, Toys

Location : Brain and Spinal Injury Centre, Salford UK

16th November 2016

I’ve had fun this morning at BASIC’s photography session.

It was a still life session with a difference – using a Racing Bike and some little toy characters

Framed with a backdrop provided by our leader and tutor Maggie.

Here’s the bike we used for the shots 🙂

I came armed with my Sony DSC-300 and my Xperia Phone as backup

A Close up of the spokes on the wheel

While I was taking the shots – I heard a tiny voice in the classroom….

“HELP!!!” he yelled

A little Lego Man – dropped through the sky (ok…it was the background curtain…)

He Landed on the wheel…

Before landing on one of the Bicycle Pedals….

Upon Closer Inspection of our photography subject – we found he wasn’t alone! 🙂

Stuck by the Brake pads 🙂

Close up photography

Art, BASIC, Learning, Photography, Water

Location : Brain and Spinal Injury Centre, Salford, Lancashire

Date : 26th October 2016

Todays session of the photography group concentrated on Still life.

It also covered areas of using a zoom lens and tripod.

The above pic was created using a small water fountain, brought in by our marvellous tutor Maggie, a star tripod and my Sony Bridge Camera.

I particularly liked the running water and the shadows in this shot.

I also played around with a seashell using the mermaids backdrop for a covering background. I like the details of the shells in this one.

The main task for setting up both of these shots was the set up behind the objects. this shot shows the distance for some shots requiring the lighting. In the end, I found perching myself at the short end of the table worked the best in both lighting and end result.

Dolphin in the Mermaid pool – bubbles created with washing up liquid….

Frozen Flowers

BASIC, Flowers, Nature, Photography

Salford, 25th May 2016

Location : Brain and Spinal Injury Centre – Salford

Frozen in time, a Flower head in ice ((c) Brian F Kirkham, May 2016)

In today’s photography workshop, we’ve been working with flower heads, captured in trays of Ice. We photographed the Ice over time , with close up shots and as the ice changed, the subject matter changed too.

Set of six – (c) Brian F Kirkham, May 2016

The green coloured cloth was set out to keep the table dry – but it added some interesting textures to the photograph.

The Ice allowed us to do some really good close up work, and as it melted – we achieved some really good effects with our cameras.

Frozen Flower (c) Brian F Kirkham, May 2016

Getting close up to the subject matter in the ice captured the bubbles in the ice as well as the details in the flowers. I enjoyed taking the above pic because of the colours in the flower, the detail of the flower and the bubbles in the ice.

Frozen Leaf – (c) Brian F Kirkham, May 2016

Iced (Bubbles) – Brian F Kirkham May 2016

The Inkwell

from inkdrop – poetry, places and events

Close up

Back behind the Bridge

Back in the Studio

Feeding the Heffalumps

Transient

Out in the Garden

Waterfalls and Closeups

Bearable

Adventures in LEGO world

Close up photography

Frozen Flowers