Day 1: Getting to know you

The photographers:
Puang & Surachat / photo by: Jumpol


Kumthorn, our translator extraordinaire and participant / photo by: Maliwan


Ila & Maliwan, observers and participants / photo by: Kumthorn


Jumpol & Duang /photo by: Puang



Sineenart & Bussaba / photo by: Petcharal



Wisit & Petchara /photo by Sineenart

Ajan Seweega introduces our 8 students and 2 observers. They wai, we wai. Seweega translates for us: You'll be taking lots of pictures and talking about lots of pictures. Nods all around. Nat hands out cameras: one camera for each team of 2. Ila and Maliwan have their own cameras. The manual for this Fuji AV100 is in Thai. Hallellulla!

Jumpol and Duang

Classes are held in the conference room on the second floor. They have a digital projector which makes it much easier for everyone to look at their photos. There are also 3 fans working overtime. It's hot in the afternoons!


















First assignment was to take a portrait of your partner. This is Jumpol's picture of Duang.

Next take a photo of someone without showing his/her face:


Bussaba















Petchara




Jumpol

Day 2: Whistle while you work

Today's assignment was to photograph someone working.








Pounding rice / Ila








Working in the garden / Petchara


Nat explaining the finer points of something photographic

Days 3 & 4: You got eyes!

Take a photo of something so that we can't recognize the subject.

Sineenart: Jackfruit
Puang: A tower of shoes

Bussaba: Fryer colander

And now for depth of field...

Surachat

Are we all on the same page here?

Using the edges of the frame: get that subject out of dead center!

Sineenart
Petchara
Ila

Photograph a color:

Bussaba: Red












Ila: Gray






Petchara: Green

Day 5: In which we discover the joys of panoramas & scavenger hunts

Today we explore the fun of the panorama setting in which we stitch three frames together.

Puang
Jumpol

Kumthorn

Maliwan

Scavenger hunt, photo style:

Ila: # 7
Duang: Something you eat
Wisit: # 7 (in Thai written with a water hose)
Surachat: Something round

Day 6: Of running around and ants and birds

The assignment: photograph some one moving.

Susan runs for Nat

Wisit





Malliwan









Duang

So now pretend you're an ant with a camera.

Jumpol
Jumpol as ant
Ila

And then you're a bird with a camera strapped to your wing.

Petchara
Puang

Day 7: Tell me a story ...

Today each team had to create a photo story and present it to the class. The story had to have 6 images, with each team member contributing 3 photos to the essay. Look what we got!!!






This is Kumthorn's story. No explanation necessary.

Sineenart & Bussaba's story:





Working in Ban Ruam Jai's amazing garden.