I was really excited to stumble across the Guardian’s camera club group on flickr the other day. If you struggle to come up with mini assignments to set yourself, then take some inspiration from the camera club. Each month the Guardian will set an assignment and they invite you to submit your photos to their group for on-line critique from other users and members of the Guardian and Observer’s photography department. If your work is interesting enough, it may even get featured on the Camera Club page, which would be great exposure and a great confidence boost too.

What I am most looking forward to is their monthly audio slideshow by one of their own photographers, explaining how they approached the assignment. As a person who enjoys taking photos, but who has never attended a class or fully interacted with a professional photographer, sometimes you wonder how the professionals would do it, what settings they might opt for, or what kind of lens they would use, and these monthly videos promise to give a good insight into how it’s done. Just as a result of watching their June audio slideshow by Sarah Lee, I have learnt a few interesting points.

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