Wellbeing

We will start each morning in the classroom for a short a time as possible. We will take photographs during the rest of the time within the college grounds. At the end of the session, we will review student images, for positive critique, via an overhead projector, back in the classroom. This critique session is a massive part of the learning process of how to take better images, not just by seeing how your own images could be improved, but by learning how other student images could be improved too.

At the start of the week you will learn about shooting images. Towards the end of the week you learn about editing your shots. On Thursday you will select your very best image. This will be sent off for printing, mounting, and framing. These images will be on display at the end-of-week Gala on Friday pm, after which you can take yours home with you.

Shooting

·See the world in a totally different way - the way photographers see it

·Know how to take shots that others won't even consider

·Have people wondering how you shoot unique images, using just 3 simple steps

·Have the knowledge to transform your images into incredible photos

·Understand the craft of making beautiful photographs

Editing

·Understand the craft of editing and achieving outstanding photographs

·Be able to make edits to your images that professional photographers make

·Know some secret processes that even few professional photographers know

·Have people wondering how you make your images stand out

·Have the knowledge to transform your images into incredible photos

Essential equipment you need to bring

1. Your iPhone - a minimum of iPhone 6 (but please understand, later iPhone models have more features). All my demonstrations will be carried out using my iPhone 15 Pro.

2. Your iPhone charger with a 3-pin plug, which MUST include a way to send images to my phone (wifi, WhatsApp, Airdrop, text, email) allowing me to project your images to the overhead projector in the classroom.

3. You will be taking a great number of images. This process uses a lot of battery. You may need to recharge your battery through the day.

4. A large available photo storage on your iPhone. You're going to take many photos (which can be deleted later, but you will need a large capacity to start off the week).

Bob Holman

About Bob

I am a self-taught, iPhone (well, Apple everything really) 66-year-old, young photographer.

So, when Apple started making outstanding cameras, which happened to make phone calls, I began to get more interested in photography. My holiday and general photos started to get a great deal better. And the best bit? My camera is always with me - I (hardly ever) miss a shot!

'Snaps' no longer became good enough. I started to give more thought to each capture. So, after 1,000s of photographs taken on my iPhone, and a massive number of shockingly poor images, I started to learn a few little tricks - and my 'photography knowledge' increased in leaps and bounds.

My photos started to look better. People started to ask me how I achieved a certain look, or how I edited a part of the image, or why I took it from a certain angle.

The cameras in iPhones, in fact most smartphones today, are starting to match the capabilities of small compact cameras. Smartphones are absorbing an increasing amount of traditional camera technology. Images taken on 'phone cameras' are now simply called photography.

Since retiring from my local business (The Food Gallery, in Marlborough High Street - my children now run it) I spend my time taking my own images; printing, framing, and selling my favourite ones; running a local Photography Club; making photography books and 6-monthly magazines of my images around Marlborough; and sharing my knowledge on fun 1-2-1 workshops to local students. I'm constantly searching for novel ways to make my images look different from others.

More information can be found at www.bobholmanphotography.co.uk or come and join me on Instagram - look for @bob___holman