Month: February 2026

Today’s Agenda:

• Edpuzzle video with Questions
• PPT and Photo Series: Understanding White Balance
• Catch up on past due assignments
• Feb Photo Challenges due Friday!

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Due Wednesday Feb. 18th

Open this file for steps, requirements, and visual inspo!

Black History Month_Photographer_Poster_Instructions_

Make a Splash!

Your Guide to Creating Stunning High-Speed Splash Photos Without Flash

Objective: Work in groups of 3 to capture water splashes that are focused & frozen using fast shutter speeds.

Take turns in your group roles: photographer, item dropper, and backdrop holder.

Each photographer will need to photograph a different item and may need about 5 tries just to capture one good splash. Aim to capture 3 good splashes.

• Materials: a backdrop, a vase, water, fruit or veggies (or other props) to drop in the water.
• Equipment: DSLR Camera, tripod (optional)
• Camera Settings Suggestions:
• From the article: “I put the camera in Manual Mode. To get a good combination of the fast shutter speed needed, decent depth of field, and not too high an ISO, I found that shooting at ISO 400, aperture f/6.3 and… fast shutter speeds between 1/2000 and 1/3200th of a second was about right. Letting a pepper float in the tank where I anticipated it to be when dropped, I set the focus and then locked it in manual [MF on lens]. I also put the shutter in high-speed continuous mode so for each drop…”

More Tips!

• When using continuous shooting mode, the camera will take photos as long as you’re pressing the shutter down. Start shooting before the item is dropped for best results.
• The settings above are suggestions. You can choose a smaller f-stop value, higher ISO if you REALLY need to, and various fast shutter speeds (but no slower than 1/800).
• Use the camera in portrait mode (held vertically) to better capture the area that the item will travel through.
• Some of our classroom cameras have faster continuous shooting than others (Canon t6i & t8i, and Canon 70D’s are faster than t6 & t7’s).

 

Posting Instructions:

Title post: “My Splash Photos”. 

1. Type an introduction to explain the project to your audience.
2. Edit the best 3 photos that YOU took using Lightroom. (We will learn to make backgrounds more solid in color and to take out unwanted elements).
3. Add them to your post as a gallery and caption with the camera settings. Gallery settings: 3 columns, media file, medium or large size.
4. Then add a second gallery with the rest of the photo attempts. No captions or no editing required for these.
5. Add a brief reflection on the project. How did you do? What did you enjoy? Challenges? Anything you wish you did differently?

Publish and turn in on Teams.

Student examples: