[Year 12 IPM] Photography

[Keith Richardson]

Hi Brendyn - a most interesting question!
>From my experience trying many different approaches, the one that seems
to work quite well is product or results or purpose driven.
For example, I will show the class a few commercial photographs -
portraits perhaps - in which certain photographic techniques have been
used rather well, and which appear, to me eyes at least, to be very
effective photographs to achieve the effect desired by the advertising
agency who contracted for them.
We study the photos, discuss what each is trying to achieve and how well
they did that. We look at a great many of the techniques that would have
been employed - lighting/shadowing, background, framing, angle,
depth-of-focus, computer image manipulation in Photoshop, etc.
We then design a photoshoot contract for ourselves to achieve much the
same effect, and set about defining and aquiring the skills necessary,
then doing it, and constructively criticizing one another's efforts.

Then move on to something quite different, such as a motion shot in
sport or motor racing, or landscape, or architectural, or macro, etc.

By this stage the semester should be finished.

Cheers, Keith




On Mon, 10 Jul 2006 09:26:58 +1000, "Brendyn Hancock"
<hancobr at nagle.sale.catholic.edu.au> said:
> Help.
>  
> I have been asked to put together a unit of work on digital photography.
> Year 10, 80min/frtnight. Students already know basic photography skills.
>  
> I'm after a basic list of topics or headings that should be covered.
>  
> Thanks.
>  
> Brendyn
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> Brendyn Hancock
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