David Gilliver’s Photography workshop for Year 8

Year 8 took part in David Gilliver’s Photography workshop, this year’s British Photography Awards Macro prize winner. The students were completely immersed in his light painting techniques and produced lots of long exposure photographs. Gilliver introduced himself and delivered a briefing on how to use the photography equipment before getting the students involved.  

Hamza 

We learnt all about long exposure photography and how light can be captured with this type of photography. We also learnt that the aperture of the camera shutter adjusts to light in the same way our pupils in our eyes do. We created really awesome freestyle artwork with things like glowsticks and even made artwork where we able to look like silhouettes. I would definitely do it again if given the chance. 

Theodoros 

I was introduced to a different way of capturing images through the David Gilliver workshop of Light Painting. It was fascinating how the use of a setting on a camera could change photography entirely. The use of a long exposure camera allows an image to decrease the number of frames per seconds dramatically to the point where it drops to 1 frame per 30 seconds. This allows light movement to give a really cool effect on how an image shows up.

Arnav 

It started off with David showing us some different light tools and equipment. Some of the interesting ones that we used were the 200-pixel image creator and several types of wands/sticks with different lighting modes. He then went on to show us how the camera works and how to start it. The camera would start to record a video and four to five students would take a light tool and start waving it around in different ways to create different patterns. This would happen for about twenty-five to thirty-five seconds before the camera would stop recording and the lights would turn on.