Photography Basics With Memory Gate

Juxtaposition | Photography Basics

Juxtaposition is the art placement of two subjects to create contrast or to compliment each other. It can either be intentional or accidental and more often than not its intentions can be subtle. To see a reoccurring example of juxtaposition just open any newspaper. Headlines and images are designed to compliment each other but sometimes editors add in other non-related images…
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Photo Challenge

Negative Space | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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North London

Mill Hill School Sports Centre in NW7 is open to the public

Mill Hill School Sports Centre had a major refit over the summer with brand new, state of the art, Star Trac cardio vascular equipment with integrated iPod connectivity, high definition 15” screens with Pick and Play entertainment solutions. Included in the fitness suite are the Intuitive Human Sport pulley machines, designed to reflect human body mechanics, with Lock n Load weight stack system…
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Attractions

SCOUTS STAGE SHARK SLEEP-IN AT THE SEA LIFE LONDON AQUARIUM

Each year, 70 million sharks are slaughtered for their fins – a rate at which they simply cannot survive – and shark charity Bite Back estimate that unless action is taken, 20 species could be extinct by 2017. So a few days ago, a courageous group of 55 cub scouts – all just 8-10 years old – took a stand and staged a ‘sleep-in’ at the SEA LIFE London Aquarium, sleeping with 15 sharks…
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Photo Challenge

Journeys | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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South West London

Mum & child activities: Join the Mummy Mondays at Beaufort House Chelsea

Join us every Monday at Beaufort House Chelsea for Mummy Mondays a day of classes and a whole lot of fun for mummies and babies from 6 weeks to school ages kids. Culture Kids Sensory Play – Sensory play for bonding with your little bundles! 10.15am and 11.15am ~ 45 minutes per class (6 weeks – crawling) A fun and interactive class where your baby will have the chance to explore textures…
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Photography Basics With Memory Gate

Subject Placement | Photography Basics

How a subject is framed in an image really does show the difference between an amateur happy snap and a considered and more “professional” photograph. Years ago when I worked on cruise ships we had to photograph thousands of people in similar situations exactly the same way. Even though we were using digital cameras there was no time to crop or edit the pictures before we printed…
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Get Creative

Transform that Old Thing

Television scheduling is a mystery of the modern age. How is it that I can sit at home on a Saturday night (err, because I was out on a Friday…) with nothing to watch and then bizarrely, a series by my favourite, Kirstie Allsopp can charge across the screens in the middle of the summer with barely a fan fare? Fill your Home for Free wasn’t like any other design programme Channel 4…
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Attractions

A 'gift' to all fans of One Direction....

A bit of a cheesy one here…. 🙂 but I know there are a lot of fans of One Direction out there who would be interested in this information. The wax figures of pop sensation, One Direction, proved such a big hit on the London leg of their Madame Tussauds world tour, that five NEW figures created by the talented sculptors have taken up permanent residence at the world famous attraction. The…
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Photo Challenge

What's in your pocket? | Weekly Photography Challenge

This weekly photo challenge is deigned to complement our free online photography basics classes. Each week we will set a different theme and your homework is to go out and photograph a collection of images related to that theme. You can start this challenge whenever you like and do the different themes in any order you see fit. Think of these challenges as a photography workout. Don’t…
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