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Photo-A-Day, Photography, Technology, Vlog

My Polaroid Haul

Polaroid Haul
Photo-A-Day #4381

A couple of months ago I won a Polaroid Prize Pack from a Twitter party hosted by Mantripping.com. The prize pack consisted of a Polaroid Zip printer, a Polaroid Cube+ and a Polaroid Snaptouch camera. These are really cool and I think that they will be a lot of fun on the upcoming trip to New Hampshire for Spring Break. It will also be fun to bring these along to Philly Brickfest Live. The Polaroid Cube+ can Livestream so that will be interesting to use at some point while filming built From Bricks or for something else. I’m not sure exactly how to use everything yet, but I will.

Filming today’s video was an absolute mess. Well, afterwards it was a mess. I was opening the Polaroid Snaptouch and it slipped out of my hands and landed on the floor. I think it still works but part of it popped open and it wasn’t the part that is supposed to open. hopefully it will still work. Then, after I took today’s photo I knocked over the new light that stays behind me when I make videos and I shattered the lightbulb. I’ve got to go and order a new one. That smashed real good.

Photo-A-Day, Photography

At Photography Club


Photo-A-Day #3611

Today kicked off the first meeting of the newly formed Photography club at my daughter’s school. I got to the school with Andrew in tow. He had fallen asleep halfway through our drive over. I had Andrew, his diaper bag, my backpack loaded with cameras and equipment and another bag with even more stuff.

The overall plan was to use Legacy Learning’s Learn and Master Photography plus some hands on work with the cameras. To get things started we watched some of the DVD but it wasn’t exactly engaging. I’ll use it later for some of the bigger topics that do not get outdated. Specific photography concepts like aperture and depth of field and things like that which can be better explained by an expert than me.

Once I realized that the students weren’t getting much out of the DVD I sat down with them at the table and explained the equipment in my own words. They really began to respond to that. Then I pulled out the Foldio and an Elsa Funko figure plus a couple of lights. They really got excited about that. “It is like a photo shoot,” one of the girls said.

Elsa Funko Figure

We focused on the different camera functions and settings. Aperture priority was something that they were interested in so we focused on that for a while. In future meetings we’ll work with various lenses and other topics. I’ve got to work on some real lesson plans and handouts for the students plus possible challenges and assignments.