Description
Welcome to my Photography Club.
This is an online photo club that is all about learning through monthly challenges. There is no joining fee but there is a fee to take part in each months challenge. You are free to dip in and out as you see fit and only take part in the months that appeal to you.
Each challenge comes with a set of notes telling you about the challenge and giving you some useful information about how to approach it. The challenge will change every month and will be available to buy on the first day of each month. Participants will be encouraged to share their images on my Facebook page ‘Photographing Suffolk’
On the last Wednesday of every month I will hold a Zoom session with all participants where we will discuss the challenge, how we approached it and how we processed our images afterwards. We will be able to look at everyones images and discuss what worked and what didn’t.
The February edition of the challenge is now available to book. Each monthly challenge costs £10 for which you will get a full set of challenge notes, access to Photographing Suffolk on Facebook and an invitation to the February Zoom session which will take place between 7pm – 8.30pm on Wednesday 22nd February.
The titles for all this years challenges are set out below.
January – Winter Creativity
February – How to use foregrounds in landscape photography
March – Abstract Photography
April – Field work – Agricultural landscapes inspired by the photography of Amy Bateman and Finn Hopson
May – Inspired by the sea – Long exposures, minimalism, and movement
June – Colour and small scenes – landscape photography inspired by the work of Ian Lawson
July – Black and White Landscapes
August – It’s not about a single image – working in sets to create triptychs and panels
September – Creative depth of field
October – Creative woodlands – inspired by the work of Neil Burnell, Ellen Borggreve and Simon Baxter
November – After Dark Photography – inspired by Richard Tatti, Dirk Ercken and Jasper Goodall
December – It’s all about the light – taking inspiration from Sandra Bartocha and Alastair Benn
About February’s challenge.
The second monthly challenge is all about using a prominent foreground in your landscape photography.
Landscape photographs have a tendency to fail when the foreground is treated as an after thought. This month I am challenging you to get out and really embrace your foreground. Find something interesting and compose your shot around the foreground.
Feedback
‘Thank you for creating a lovely environment to show and learn photography. Everyone submitted very different work which was great !’
‘I really enjoyed the session, seeing everybody’s photographs and the critique. I think the latter is essential to making progress and sometimes we tiptoe around saying what we actually think in case it offends. I think you managed this process extremely sensitively and I personally found it very useful.’
‘The notes were great and gave lots of ideas.’
