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Marlborough School Community Education, Woodstock

• Do you have an advanced digital camera* that sometimes baffles you?
• Would you like to be more creative with your camera but don’t know where to begin?
• Are your photography ambitions thwarted by the complicated controls and menus?

This ten-week crash course, balancing a little theory with plenty of practice, will help you gain control over, and confidence handling, any advanced digital camera*.  You will understand the different knobs, buttons and menus; ways of getting sharper images; and the keys to an aesthetically better picture.  We will look at a variety of subjects (people, buildings, objects that are still, and some that are moving).  Whatever your particular interest, you will emerge as a better image maker.

(*) By “advanced digital camera” we include DSLRs, mirrorless, and Bridge cameras, but not “point and shoot” ones.

PLEASE NOTE: THE SCHOOL WEBSITE WILL BE UPDATED WITH DETAILS VERY SOON – CHECK BACK TO SEE THE LINK SHORTLY

More details of the Marlborough School Community Education Photography Classes can be found here:

The booking/enrolment details are here:

Rescheduled by OURC to Friday, 13 March 2020 from 12:30-16:30

Meet @ The Head of the River (Oxford, Oxfordshire), Folly Bridge, St. Aldates, OX1 4LB Oxford, Oxfordshire

The Torpids are an exciting series of bumping rowing races held each winter on the river Thames between Donnington Bridge (nearest the start) and Folly Bridge (nearest the finish), a distance of 1800 meters. Teams of eights compete over four days. We will meet on the ramp outside the Head of the River Pub, then wander along the South and North Banks, capturing the action, desperation, and celebration of each race, as well as the muffled, padded, behatted and beverage slurping antics of the spectators. The towpath is well made, so regular shoes will probably be fine, though you will be glad to wrap up warmly! This is not a “led” trip but Graham Wilson will be on hand to help if he can – if we have left the pub, you will be able to spot him in his distinctive red bobble-less bobble hat! [In association with the RPS Documentary Group – TV Region]

Short course in portrait photography which I was asked to run for Activate Learning in Banbury at very short notice.

• Wk 1 – Single light source – candles/desklamps in the studio
• Wk 2 – Flash/speedlights – in the studio
• Wk 3 – Environmental portraits – in the pottery
• Wk 4 – Studio strobes – with Tara and Amiya models – in the studio

The course is for anyone who has a reasonable amount of skill with a DSLR and would like the opportunity to produce a body of work on a single topic to take part in a group exhibition.

On the course you will be guided and supported to choose a subject and then to build up a credible body of work consisting of a series of high-quality photographs. The idea is for you to build up your projects on a week by week basis and to receive constructive criticism from the other members of the class.

Photos will be judged both on individual merit and compatibility with previous photos to form a carefully edited body of work. This will consist of a smaller number of photos for enlargement and framing, and a larger number which will be used to create a book containing text. You will thus gain experience of creating a body of work for exhibition, setting up and hanging an exhibition, preparing publicity, hosting a private view event and creating an online book.

You will be expected to pay for your own printing and framing, although this can be kept to a minimum. It is often possible to find some very good deals online.

Please note there will be no teaching sessions on 26/05/2020

Further information: https://www.abingdon-witney.ac.uk/courses/digital-dslr-photography-stage-6-38552

A digital photography course which centres on the range of lighting sources used in photography. This course follows on from Stage 4 but can also stand alone.

This course will concentrate on photography’s relationship with light. You will learn about different types of natural light, as well as using flash guns and constant sources of light. As with Stage 4, the course will be studying the work of a range of photographers, using their lighting techniques to inspire new work. You will build up a portfolio of work.

Please note there will be no teaching sessions on 18/02/2020

Further information and booking: https://www.abingdon-witney.ac.uk/courses/digital-dslr-photography-stage-5-38852

Street Photography [S] [13+]
Saturday 16 November
09:30-16:00, £45
Tutor: Graham Wilson
www.itdoesnthavetobe.org
www.utopia.photo

“Well planned and paced day.”

Whether you want to document your own town or village, improve your travel photography, have new ideas for your family album, or you are a fan of the fast-growing art of street photography and want to try your hand at it, this whole day workshop will open your eyes to new possibilities all around you.

Street photography ranges from its purest form of candid images of people in their environment, through more formal but ad hoc portraits, capturing the details of a place that make it more memorable, to some aspects of architectural and landscape photography.

The group will spend most of the day walking around Woodstock (whatever the weather!), tackling a number of straightforward but informative tasks, reconvening for a chance to share experiences, short ‘tutorials’, and briefing for the next activity.  The tutor will help you refine your images over the day, but also be on hand to help answer more general technical questions.

You will need to bring your own advanced digital camera (e.g. DSLRs, mirrorless, and Bridge cameras) and be reasonably familiar with using it as the emphasis will be on taking photos rather than instruction in camera controls. The workshop is not suitable for ‘point and shoot’ digital cameras or mobile devices.

Please be aware that you will be walking around Woodstock, and that the workshop will go ahead whatever the weather, so please dress appropriately. You will also need to provide your own refreshments (or buy them locally) during the day.

More details of the Marlborough School Community Education Photography Classes can be found here: https://www.marlborough.oxon.sch.uk/4788/photography

The booking/enrolment details are here: https://www.marlborough.oxon.sch.uk/733/enrolment-and-booking