For the next three days, I’m working with Year 10 students from Colton Hills Community School on a digital photography project. We will be looking at the technical side of digital photography (shutter speed, aperture, using focus lock, depth of field) and at ideas for effective composition (e.g. the “Rule of Thirds”). As the students take, edit and evaluate their photos, they will publish them to Flickr and learn how to organise and annotate their photos online.
Here are the student activities for Day One:
- Mindmapping - what makes a good photo?
- A technical intro to how cameras work - aperture, shutter speed, depth of field, focus
- A shooting challenge - students shoot photos around the CLC demonstrating low depth of field, high depth of field and focal lock
- Uploading images to Flickr, adding new photos, creating sets, annotating and tagging photos
- How to compose a photo - “the rule of thirds”, viewpoint, story-telling, simplicity
- Walking into Wednesfield on a scouting visit for locations, and taking shots.
Resources
- View a mindmap of some of the key concepts in “Effective Digital Photography”
Here is the presentation we will be using during Day 1:
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