Meryl Mathieson is a sculpture maker and childrens’ workshop designer, and she’s cleverly come up with a way of making elephants out of plastic milk containers. It’s an obvious fit to commission her to run a workshop for the Ganesh Festival at Kalapremi in Stanley last weekend. It was so popular there were actually two jam packed sessions. These faces of these children concentrating on the deeply serious task of choosing beads, or glitter, the fun with sticky tissue, all was a delight to photograph.
Click through any pf the photos above to see a slide show of the rest.
The technical stuff: lighting in rooms used for these workshop type events is often a combination of florescent and sodium, so it can be tricky to get the white balance right. Of course some good bright Agfa colour negative film will help get around all that. It’s important to be as unobtrusive as possible, and vital to check that parental permission has been given in advance. No flash, so the depth of field is pushed to mere inches. It’s a trade-off worth making.
Post to come with tips for photographing at events.
Making Ganesh
Meryl Mathieson is a sculpture maker and childrens’ workshop designer, and she’s cleverly come up with a way of making elephants out of plastic milk containers. It’s an obvious fit to commission her to run a workshop for the Ganesh Festival at Kalapremi in Stanley last weekend. It was so popular there were actually two jam packed sessions. These faces of these children concentrating on the deeply serious task of choosing beads, or glitter, the fun with sticky tissue, all was a delight to photograph.
Click through any pf the photos above to see a slide show of the rest.
The technical stuff: lighting in rooms used for these workshop type events is often a combination of florescent and sodium, so it can be tricky to get the white balance right. Of course some good bright Agfa colour negative film will help get around all that. It’s important to be as unobtrusive as possible, and vital to check that parental permission has been given in advance. No flash, so the depth of field is pushed to mere inches. It’s a trade-off worth making.
Post to come with tips for photographing at events.
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