To open the session we talked about our precious objects, thinking about rarity, age, rust, and the passage of time. I had my little tea and sugar box that belonged to my Da and we wondered what memories their plastic lunch  boxes might trigger in 70 years’ time.

Today we added a new variable to the mix when taking photographs: LIGHT. Up until this point, it has been enough to work on focus, backgrounds, composition and framing but when the element of light is added it changes everything else completely.

We looked at the light within the class and experimented with different backgrounds and locations using flash, not using flash, blocking the light from the window, turning off the overhead lights. The groups used 3-D cream coloured shapes for this task. We didn’t use the precious objects for this task because their objects are so different that comparisons would be difficult.

The children then took photos of me with different combinations of lighting and worked within the classroom taking portraits with the webcam to see how the colour of light changed and where the different sources and tints of light were coming from.