Photography Club continues going strong. We are in our third week and there are 5 students who are still pretty interested. Eva is also very much into this club. She was excited this week because Andrew was sleeping and stayed over at Mem’s house. That meant that Eva didn’t have to entertain him or help me look after him. This also meant that she could do the activity for the group.
This week I talked about portrait photography. We went over some portrait tips and then the students paired up to be the photographer and the subject to take photos. Eva was thrilled and she made use of the mini lights that I have in order to create some lighting options for she and her partner.
Eva is doing really well with the program but she still has to learn to slow down. She’s moving too fast and many of her images that would have been great ended up being out of focus. The lighting on the images was good though. She’s having fun with that.
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 I’ll use it later for some of the bigger topics that do not get outdated.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.
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.
