As part of being a leader, I have completed an insightful workshop to a group of participants informing them about something I feel I am skilled in. This being photography, our workshop included information about how to use the settings on a camera and how they affect the lens, light, etc, along with features such as composition, framing, informing them about common techniques such as the rule of thirds, etc. I have worked in a group of 3 within this workshop, consisting of one person explaining the technical settings of photography – (myself,) the aesthetical looks of taking a photo including lighting and composition (Darcey) and the post production of a photo when editing the photo in softwares such as Adobe Photoshop (Kate.) This therefore meant I was in a group and teamwork presentation, in which we had to work together to project our presentation.
I was working and communicating with them to ensure that we all presented our information in the most successful way with limited issues and the correct amount of information to introduce people to photography. This was important to make sure our leadership skills were practiced and fulfilled, us all taking on a different section of the presentation depending on which part we had more knowledge on.
I wanted to achieve and have the experience of presenting something about photography to a group, to practice with the knowledge I have about the topic along with introduce it to others who may not know anything about it. I had achieved this and got the message across to the group – this was demonstrated when we gave them the activity of taking a collection of 3-5 photographs after the presentation telling a story using any technique they had learnt from the presentation. The results from two groups were –
Group 1 – Took photos from various angles, experimenting with composition and shallow depth of field
Group 2 – Took photos from the same angle but in black and white, considering the editing aspect that Kate produced.
Both groups had therefore learnt something from the presentation and were able to demonstrate this, meaning I had achieved what I wanted to. (highlighted)
Fortunately, there were not many issues in the workshop in which we hadn’t previously thought about, though the workshop would have been better if we got to demonstrate with a camera, with the group also having cameras. In the second practice workshop for my section of technically explaining, I had a camera to show where certain functions may be located. Though not major, this was an issue as we could not get a camera for the final thing. To resolve this, we got our participants to use their phones. This did not massively affect the workshop as there were still photos in which we could project and in the end our audience were still able to learn, then demonstrate this learning.
Silver Arts Award 