Lesson 18: PHOTOGRAPHY
Enrichment activity
Photo Session Exercises
1. Set your camera to black and white, and shoot away.
Shooting in black and white can teach you about form and texture and contrast in a way that colour photography really can’t. For example, you don’t notice the sunset, but you do notice the “texture” of the rippling water, and the shadow created on the ocean’s surface as the sun sets. When you first take your camera out, go ahead and take several shots in black and white mode, and really study the results. You may never shoot in black and white again, but the lessons that you learn will be ones you’ll take with you when composing all of your shots in the future.
2. Once you’ve got black and white down, start focusing on colour.
Once you’re comfortable with shooting in black and white, go ahead and start shooting in colour. But what I would suggest is to choose a colour, and then go out on a photo shoot and try to capture that specific colour in all your shots. For example, if your chosen colour is yellow, shoot as much yellow in as many locations as you can — and notice the different tonal changes, how light can change the hues and how the colour “handles” translucence, or opacity. This exercise can help you to train your eye to really search out colour as the focal point of composition.
3. The 100 paces exercise
The point of this exercise is to force you to look closely at your surroundings, consider various angles and find something unusual about your specific location.
4. Play with the rule of thirds.
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So to do this exercise, when you go out for a photoshoot, instead of placing your subject directly in the middle of the frame, offset it slightly, so that the subject roughly lines up along an axes drawn at a third of the frame. Note that this “rule” doesn’t mean that every shot should be taken on thirds (some shots just work better perfectly symmetrically), but it does force you to think about different angles and ways to shoot.
5. Tap into your inner photojournalist.
This is a great exercise to do at local festivals or fairs in your town: grab your camera and head out to the site, and start snapping away. But instead of just taking photographs of your travel companions, or your travel companions next to some landmark or a particular street performer, actually compose shots using what you see around you. Notice things like forms and patterns — for example, in the shot of the artist suspended in silks, above, notice how the position of her body mimics the shape of the tree in the background.
Lesson 2: QUALITY OF EDUCATION THROUGH EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Enrichment Activity
Describe how modern students could be taught considering the advent of audio video machines and the computer. Modern students are taught visually by the use of modern audio and visual equipment. Visual audio and video presentations have been found to help students better retain any information they may have been shown through these options, and they do better on tests and schoolwork.
Lesson 7: THE PERVASIVENESS OF THE TECHNOLOGICAL MEDIA
Enrichment Activity It turns out that TV is a powerful educational medium even when it isn’t trying to be, even when it’s only trying to entertain. There must be millions of people who have learned, simple by watching crime dramas in the past few years, that they have the right to remain silent when arrested. (Herb Schlosser) The main point is the TV belongs to the everyday communication of the people in the whole world. Its main goal is to entertain and at the same time educate people such as the news. Its either you will become well entertained on what you watched but in the end the half your life is watching TV while there is an electricity. Nowadays, due to the innovation in technology, people become dehumanized by this because they tend to watch what they want know instead of reading.