6 Virtual Sessions

Explore photography for beginners, using your smartphone in this pre-recorded online course.

After the success of the first three courses and working with an amazing community of people as they navigated their spaces through photography, I am offering a different way to join in.

If you are feeling the Zoom fatigue, and not wanting to be tied down to a weekly class, these online sessions are for you. You can watch at your leisure and material is also available to return to via my website for members of the course, which includes 'how to guides', videos and inspiration from artists, photographers and activists.

All six sessions are available on demand with video and audio recordings hosted on Dropbox and are approximately 5 hours in total.

Information will be sent via email after a booking is made. Please make sure you include your email address when booking

Led by photographer, videographer, theorist and artist Marie Crick

1. Introduction to photography

• Introduction into my photography, the work of Sara Melhuish and Wildlife Photography of the Year at Natural History Museum.

• Types of photography (portrait, street photography, still life, contemporary, abstract, photojournalism, sports)

• Textures, Lines, Shapes, Abstract and Colour at home

• Aperture, manual control of focus, shutter speed, ISO, white balance, rule of thirds and JPEG/RAW

• Intro to using apps - like Manual and Focos

2. Lighting and Portraits

• Intro to portraits - looking at Zanele Muholi and Nan Goldin

• Headshot/portrait tips

• About lighting for portraits

• Natural light and shadows

• Life through a prism

• Bokeh depth of field

• Lighting a self-portrait with mirrors/reflections/side light etc

3. Still Life

• Intro to still life

• Exploring Man Ray, Edward Weston, Dina Belenko and Deborah Farnault

• Macro photography

• Reflection photography

• Capture backlit leaf details

• Polarised cutlery

4. Photo Diaries

The art of seeing - using all we have learnt to go on a lockdown walk

• How photos tell stories - examples including the work of Richard Billingham, Lina Iris Viktor and Josef Koudelka

• Viewpoint – find a new angle - activities to take photos at different viewpoints/angles – having no horizon line within their space

• Exploring exposure further

• Photographing architecture

• Curating your own photo diary - using apps like Unfold

• Activities using foreground to frame photos – framing photos

Option to do a photo walk for the next session – Choose 3 photos to discuss

• Info on free editing app to download for the next session

 5. Editing

• What is the difference between Saturation and Vibrance?

• Introduction into editing with Camera Raw

• Lightroom and Photoshop app on smartphone

• How to use Snapseed app

• What is Vignette?

• What does it mean to Dehaze an image?

• What is the difference between Clarity and Texture?

• Showing editing software

• Editing for social media – looking at the uses of filters and settings, what do they mean?

6. Roundup

• Using a glass lensball

• Round-up of photography techniques

• Photography inspiration – looking at inspirational photographers and members chance to ask questions

• Rembrandt Lighting

• Portrait Mode on phones

• Shooting silhouettes

• Types of sunlight

• You tube ‘how to’ links

• Histogram

• Sharing programmes and podcasts to explore photography further