Let each member pick out of a hat a subject to be photographed.
Examples:Photograph the same Landscape in---Windows Door Steps Paths Gates Walls Tiles ORAll weathers Once a month Each season
Photograph different subjects in---In snow In rain Autumn colour Frost Spring
Choose a Project---
Each student chooses a subject, which is of interest to them and produces a portfolio of images. This can be in any form of presentation.
Examples we have had included:Aeroplanes, the artists Turner and Constable, Swanage, a donkey sanctuary and Thomas Hardy.
All the above Projects could be photographed over an extended period of time. Thus giving the students plenty of opportunities to devise their own stratagem for capturing the images and produce some creative work. Lymington U3A had a system of picking items from a list. This is what they said:-
We chose one topic a month by putting all our ideas into a box and picking one out at a time. We went out and took our photos and chose 3 to bring to the Photo Group Meeting to show. At the meeting we used two black right angles to place on the photograph to see if we had framed it differently if it would have improved the photograph.
The list is here
Ideas for Subjects for a
Photography Group
Doors and door knobs
Markets
Macro
Micro
Winter/Spring/Summer/Autumn
Roofs, chimney pots, gables, angles
Reflections
Nautical
Biodiversity
Visit a local place of interest together
–then bring back best 3 pics to the meeting
Scapes – Landscapes/Seascapes
Manmade Structures
Portraits
Still Life
Walls and Fences
Black & White & Sepia
Historic Buildings
Life & Death
Waterways
On the Beach
A village – all go and visit together
Statues, monuments and relief
Patterns
Decorations (esp Christmas)
Bridges
Through the looking glass
Wood
Trade & Industry – ‘People at Work’
A thing of beauty
Time
A walk in the Park
The way things were
Special effects and unusual angles
Candles and candlesticks
Wetness
One object – different angles
Beneath your feet
Transport
Layers
Framing and bordering
Pubs and Inns
Simplicity
Long Term Projects – to run alongside the monthly topic – say one every 6 months
Illustrate a book or poem
A Walk on the Wildside
Serendipity
A set of pictures that tells a story