Bangkok Photo School: Student Slideshows

Following on from yesterday’s post concluding our Spring Bangkok Photo School courses, here are two slideshows featuring the students and their work.

There was, as you’ll see, a wide range of subjects appearing in our homework review each week. This was an introductory course where we concentrated on the basic photographic principles but also tried to include some creative elements. Trying to get to grips with photography as a beginner can be a bit intimidating, all that talk of focal lengths, f-stops and metering modes can make it seem like a course in applied mathematics rather than a creative art. Still, those concepts have to be grasped if we’re to make any progress with our photography. Knowing what happens when you shoot at f/4 as opposed to f/16 can make the difference between a great photograph and an uninspiring one. Understanding metering modes and knowing how to read a histogram might seem like a move in the wrong direction when all we really want to do is get creative and to make masterpieces. Yet it’s exactly this sort of knowledge that enables us to work in a creative fashion and as soon as those f-stops, ISOs and shutter speeds become second nature then that’s when we get the freedom to concentrate on perspective, lighting and composition, the things that can make a photograph really sing.

In June we’ll be running an Advanced course, although I’m not supposed to talk about it yet so don’t let on that I told you. During that course we’ll be looking at the work of some of the photographic greats. I’m sure HCB will make an appearance and others too. Who would you recommend as a good example of great composition, atmospheric lighting and evocative photography? Who’s your favourite? We will examine their work and try to glean information about why a particular photograph speaks to us in the way it does. We’ll look at how the scene has been lit, what compositional guidelines it follows – or ignores, we’ll try to ascertain as much as we can and then see how what we’ve learned might be applied to our own work. I’m really looking forward to that myself and am sure it will throw up all kinds of informative and educational material.

It’s not too late to sign up for the Bangkok Photo School Mailing List so if you’re living in Bangkok and would like the opportunity to improve your photographic skills then please sign up and we’ll let you know when new courses are announced.

Posted on Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 at 12:00 pm. Filed under: Workshops Tags: bangkok photo, slideshow RSS 2.0 feed.