After hearing his tips about lighting and emotion, I know I can convey this importance to my students and, hopefully, get some great pictures to go with their articles. Some students, I know, will have a natural eye for what looks good, but there will be others that need to see what a "good" photo looks like to get the idea.
I am lucky enough to teach in an area in which most of my students has access to at least a point and shoot, and at the very least an iPhone which Mr. Seibert stated can be a good tool in a pinch. I am mildly ashamed to admit I allowed some of my students to use their phones last year (with some moderating by me), and most of them looked great. I will be exploring the various apps that were mentioned in the session today, and hopefully passing this along to my students as well.
Hooray for images!
Bidjan Aminian
Dublin High School
Dublin, CA
I learned so much I never even considered in this session. As an English teacher, Im inclined to primarily focus on the writing, and have been lax in regard to the photos and art work. However, the institute as a whole, but especially this session so far, has shown me the importance of the visual as well. I am now ready (and excited) to go home (in 10 days) and play with my newspaper's camera =).
ReplyDeleteAmelia Wright
West Morris Central High School
Chester, NJ
Photography is one of my weaker areas. At the beginning of last year, I set taking better pictures as one of the goals for the newspaper. I told the studentss they were not getting credit and we were not publishing posed pictures. I also told them head shots were only permitted for man on the streets. I established a chief photographer, took 500 dollars from the account to buy a good camera and we worked on it. It's still a work in progress. While I know the basics of photoshop, I am not advanced and am ignorant of all the interesting editing we can do. And frankly, yesterday's session only made me aware of my ignorance. So now learning more about the program is my new photo goal this year.
ReplyDeleteI also had another realization I intend to talk about in another blog...the Apple domination of the journalism field. I am proud of the picture I took yesterday but I am interested as to whether or not I should be proud of it. I had a moment of inspiration and just went with it. I know it could use some editing and I did play arounnd with it in photoshop before I uploaded it. I think it takes a stab at telling a story, but I guess Alan and Steve will have to attest to that.
I used my camera during the session but took a couple of shots on my iphone at the end for quick upload. The photos I took on my iphone looked so much better then the ones I took on my camera! I am seriously thinking that I need to spend more time with getting some great apps and just using my iphone for more!
ReplyDeleteSorry I didn't add my info :)
DeleteHeather Jancoski
Desert Sands Middle School
Phoenix, AZ