Month: August 2024

Today’s Agenda:

• Complete and Turn In your Toy Photo Project
• Edpuzzle Videos w Questions on Teams
• Individual Lightroom Tutorials

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Lightroom Tutorials

Complete 10 tutorials by Sept. 20th. I will have a Teams assignment to collect the screenshots.

In Lightroom, go to “Learn” (has a lightbulb icon). In the options above, change the level to “beginner”.

Choose any tutorials you would like to try!

During the tutorial, make sure you read the info provided with each step, so you know why you’re changing that particular item.

IMPORTANT: When you have completed the tutorial, you will get a congratulations/completed message...before you click to close it…. use the Snipping Tool to take a screenshot of your full screen at this time!!

Rename each image file with the title of the tutorial (ex: Light and Airy Macro Magic). Save to your OneDrive in a folder you should title, “Sept LR Tutorials”.

To turn in you will share the link to your OneDrive folder containing your 10 screenshots.

Today’s Agenda:

• Complete the Camera Angles Blog Assignment
• Some of you may begin the “Toy Tales on Campus” Photo Project today

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“Play is the highest form of research.” -Albert Einstein

• How can you reconnect with the sense of curiosity and playfulness that defined your early years?
• What do children see or imagine that adults often overlook or dismiss?
• What role does play have in creativity, and how can you integrate it into your daily life or work?
• What kind of toys did you play with as a child?  Which toys were your favorite and why?
• Was your preference of play or choice of toys restricted as a kid?

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Toy Tales on Campus!

Objective: Bring toys to life on school campus while using a variety of camera angles and perspectives. And to have fun while we learn!

Camera Angles:

1. Eye Level
2. High Angle
3. Bird’s Eye View
4. Low Angle
5. Worm’s Eye View
6. Ground Level
7. Tilted Angle

What you’ll need:

• Your smartphone or camera set on automatic.
• At least one toy to “bring to life”.
• Your imagination and creativity

Photo Instructions:

Brainstorm a few ideas of the type of shots you want to get.  Will you be telling a very direct story with your shots? Do you have a particular theme in mind of the type of adventures your toy can have on campus? What camera angles would work best for particular scenes?

• Take at least 20 photos of your toy around campus (you’ll turn in your best 8 photos)
• Use ALL the camera angles.
• Your toys may interact with other toys in some scenes.
• Find various locations and situations to out your toy character in.

Saving Photos from SD card:

• Saving Photos from SD Card to One Drive
• Create a folder in your OneDrive for this project and save your photos there.
• Edit your photos using Lightroom (we’ll get into this next week).

Posting Instructions:

1. Create a new blog post and come up with a fun title for the project that is unique to your toy story.
2. Inform your audience what this project is all about.
3. Add a gallery with the best 8 edited photos.
4. In the gallery settings change the link to media file, columns to 4, and size to medium.
5. In the captions, label each photo with the camera angle used.
6. Under your gallery you can type your choice of 1) A short made-up story about your toy 2) Share what your favorite toy as a child was and why, or 3) Share your experience taking the photos with the different camera angles.
7. Publish, click on view post, and copy the URL to attach in Teams.

Today’s Agenda:

• Taking volunteers to share out some critiques with the class. 🙂
• Camera Angles PowerPoint
• Video: Jerry Business- Little Toys, Big World
• Camera Angles Blog Assignment

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Camera Angles PowerPoint, click here to open!

Camera Angles Blog Assignment

Create a new post to explain to your audience what you just learned. Try to be engaging in how you present the information. 🙂 As always, check your spelling and grammar.

Blog post must include:

• Definitions from slide 2 of the PPT (PowerPoint).
• Explanation of the 7 camera angles: how to achieve that angle + their purpose/effect.
• Add a PHOTO EXAMPLE of each (you can use photos you find online or any of your own that you already have saved). You can either save photos found online as jpg files to your desktop by right clicking on an image and using “save as…” OR, use the snipping tool on your computer to save screenshots as jpg or png files. The photos should be added individually after each camera angle explanation.
• Let your audience know what you think of these angles…have you used them all before? Which, if any, have you never tried?

 

Today’s Agenda:

• Complete the 3 parts of the B&W Smartphone Photography Project (make sure you attach the link to your blog post in Teams and click turn in after you share your favorite one on Padlet!)
• Catch up on any missing assignments. Let me know if you need some help! 🙂
• Photo Critiques Worksheet (located in Teams)

Padlet Link:

https://padlet.com/delasa/b-w-smartphone-photography-4b6q93uno50bhwp7

Today’s Agenda:

Smartphone Photography Project: Shooting in B&W

We will go outside together as a class to photograph for this project. There are three parts to this project: shooting, blog post, share on gallery wall.

Part I

Set your smartphone camera app to a black and white filter (see image from yesterday’s post).

Select one other smartphone photography tip from your previous assignment.  Keep this tip in mind but feel free to explore beyond it.

Take your time composing your shots. Consider other perspectives and angles.

Take at least 10 different photos. (Of course you can take more!)

Upon our return to our classroom, upload your photos to your OneDrive account, import with a charger cable, or email them to yourself.

Part II

Choose the best 5 photos to post on your blog AS A GALLERY (see screenshots below).  Title it the same as my title above, “Smartphone Photography Project: Shooting in B&W”.

Add a reflection paragraph telling me how you felt about shooting in this manner + which was your favorite photo that you captured and why.

Publish, view your post, copy the link, and attach in Teams.

Part III

Select your best photo to share with the class on this Padlet “galley wall”:

https://padlet.com/delasa/b-w-smartphone-photography-4b6q93uno50bhwp7

Click plus sign (+) circle icon on the bottom right.

Include your first name, last initial AND your class period in the subject.

Use the upload icon (first icon) to add your photo.

Click Publish. Yay!

Today’s Agenda:

• Continue and complete previous assignments
• Photographing in Black & White with your Smartphone (instructions below)

Photographing in Black & White with your Smartphone

-IF you have completed everything, you may go outside for 15 minutes today to photograph using your smartphone, using the BLACK AND WHITE filter.

-Revisit your summary of the 13 Smartphone Photography Tips Video to practice one other tip while photographing in B&W mode. Decide which tip before you head out!

-You will have to check out a photo pass, and you can only wander in this immediate quad area (G/C Quad-upstairs and downstairs). YOU MAY NOT go near the restrooms or lunch quad!

-Take at least 5 photos.

-Upload to your OneDrive app on your phone or via your Internet browser on your phone (reception is spotty, you may need to do this outside the classroom door). Or, if you have your charger cable, you can try to import directly to your computer.