A great day was had by all last week when GEECS worked with a group from Mentro Allan to provide a digital photography taster session.
On behalf of the Communities 2.0 project, we at GEECS have been working with Mentro Allan in Merthyr Tydfil to help bring digital inclusion into the area. As the work with this group is based around outdoor activity, we wanted to provide a session that could incorporate a walk within in the local area.
We chose to apply the ‘Lucky Dip Photography’ workshop. The idea of this workshop is to provide a fast and fun activity that enables the participants to engage with their surroundings and consider the chosen words in a wider context, challenging both creativity and photographic ability.
The session concluded with a computer based workshop where the group were able to bring the images of the day together into a contact sheet. This showed thumbnails of the photos, along with the images of the words, providing a narrative based documentation of the walk.
The participants left with a printed copy of their contact sheet, a DVD of all the images taken, the free photographic editing software GIMP, and the skills to use and develop this in the future. Take a look at some of the results!
(Click on the images to enlarge or see more over on the STORIES page)
