Burma Children Medical Fund: What’s this button for?

Kanchana Thornton, founder/director of BCMF, wanted her staff to take better pictures of their work: arranging and funding medical care not available in Mae Sot for Burmese refugees, providing wheelchairs for disabled patients on both sides of the border. BCMF had several good Lumix point-and-shoots, and a Canon DSLR but her staff needed some training in how to use them. So at 8 am on a Saturday morning the MY STORY photo project arrived at the BCMF offices at the new Mae Tao Clinic, ready for 4 intense mornings of image making and critiques.

We started by looking at photographs and asking questions: what do you see? what do you think the photographer is trying to say? how does this picture make you feel?

You can’t talk about photography without talking about LIGHT. So we did…..a lot! Where is the light coming from? Why is this image so light/dark? What can I do to fix it?

Portraits: up close, full body, natural vs. flash lighting:

Photographing movement:

Trying to decipher depth of field:

Macro and the mystery photo or can you guess what this is?

Scenes from the classroom:

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