Through the Eye of the Lens

Who am I?

Atacama Crossing

Sahara Race

Gobi March

The Last Desert (Antarctica)

Course OutlineTHIS IS YOUR COURSE!

• What are your expectations?

Complete the Google Form and give you feedback

Course OutlineThis is YOUR course!• Project based• Photo expeditions and exhibitions• Getting to know your camera• Sessions with professionals• Blog and portfolio• Exhibition at end • Skills development - creativity,

collaboration, communication, capacity to learn, conscience

Why do we take photographs?

Work with someone you haven’t worked with before to create a mind map.

This will be the first piece of work

included in your blog

http://photographyconcentrate.com/54-reasons-why-you-should-be-photographer/

Imagine a world without photography!

Which genres of photography most appeal to you.

Add your top three to a post it and place it on the

board.

Now lets build our blog!• Follow the instructions at this link if

you have not created a blog before;• Ensure that you are logged in with

your school account;• Your blog must start with ‘photo15’

Now lets build our blog!• Use any template except DYNAMIC

view;• Add some gadgets to your blog.

Suggestions are Labels, Newsreel;• Customize your blog by altering the

layout and template.

Your Ultimate Photograph

• Find three different images that when you look at them you just go, wow!

• What do you like about those images?• Describe what is happening in those

picture. Do they tell a story? What is the background behind the image?

• Is there anything that you would change about the image at all?

• Use the websites on the next slide if needed.

Inspiring Photographic Galleries

• Sony World Photography Awards• National Geographic Traveller Award• Smithsonian Photo Contest• Wildlife Photographer of the Year• World Press Photo of the Year

Add your image to the Smugmug link you have been sent

Inspiring images are often not the ones that are the

best composed but are ones that tell a story.

Today’s ProjectYou are going to take some photographs around school to make a collage. You will need to choose enough photos to form a square after editing (minimum 9). Your camera should be on auto unless you know how to use the other settings.

Either choose to study colour or texture to focus on.

1. Colour: pick a colour, and take photos where that colour is dominant in the image.

2. Texture: rough, smooth, serrated, bumpy, brick, wood, metal...there are tons of textures to capture out there. Shoot close and fill the frame.

Examples

Examples

Home LearningFinish your collage of either colour or texture.

In groups of 4 or 5 you are now going to develop a group collage of the alphabet.

This might sound simple as we see text and writing everywhere we go in our daily lives. However, each letter you take must be created from an everyday object that you might also see in your environment.

Have a look at the examples on the next slides for some ideas.

Examples

Examples