What will I learn?
Discover how to take stunning photos using just your smartphone while reconnecting with the world around you. This workshop encourages being active and creative, exploring the nature-space, whilst learning photography on your smartphone. At the end of the workshop, participants will be able to exercise control over their smartphone camera in an outdoor/daylight setting along with applying foundational principles of composition and aesthetics to their photography. Learners will also be able to edit their images using in-camera controls and create a thematic picture set.

The workshop is set at an introductory level and invites participants to enjoy the benefits of being active and creative in an outdoor setting, document and explore the nature-space using the smartphone camera, edit individual pictures and compile a thematic view-set of their images.

What will I need to take part?
Please wear comfortable clothing and shoes for light walking, bring your smartphone (any model welcome ensuring it has a working camera), phone charger, notebook is optional but may be useful, and a curiosity and willingness to explore.

What to expect
Your tutor will start by guiding you through how to set the camera controls, subject choice, composition, aesthetic considerations and using apps, followed by a photographic exploration of the location concluding with an introduction to on-screen picture editing and tips for creating a picture-set. Tutors use Google Classroom to help make course resources available both during and between sessions. Please take advantage of joining your Classroom when invited to do so. For IT help please visit https://learners.northantsadultlearning.ac.uk/it-tips

Where can it lead to?
This workshop provides a foundation for developing your Smartphone Photography skills and can lead to further learning in photography, digital imaging and creative arts. You may choose to progress to another of our Smartphone Photography Workshops, more advanced photography courses, or try a longer course such as our Introduction to Smartphone Photography or Introduction to Smartphone Video. The techniques you learn can be used to capture everyday moments, landscapes, architecture, travel and family events, helping you gain confidence in using your smartphone camera creatively.

Course eligibility and fees
This adult learning course is available to residents of Northamptonshire who are:
- aged 19 or over on 31st August in the funding year
- living in England, outside a devolved adult skills funding area.
- ordinarily resident in England on the first day of learning.

If you don't meet the above requirements, including some international students or people not ordinarily resident in the UK, you will not be able attend this course.

Asylum seekers may be eligible to attend in some circumstances, including where they have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered, or where they receive certain types of local authority support.