Student Photos: Collections

After students saw examples of collections from the modern photographers and how they had messages through sets of pictures, we went out and did the same thing. Students went around their school with the mission of taking 3-4 pictures of a common object, theme or with a common style, trying to tell a message or story with those pictures. Here are some of their works:

Amaireni V.



Faviola H.



Jacky R.



Liliana G.



Wendy G.

Student Entry: Every Picture Has a Meaningful Message - Jacky

Today, me and the other students took pictures of things that had a message about life and wrote in our journals and added pictures in them. It was something interesting to me and I had fun taking pictures. By learning this I realize that every picture has a meaningful message.

Recap: Photo Collections With Themes

Today, we introduced the concept of having several photographs together in collection with a running theme. We looked at 2 collections by notable modern photographers:

"Scenes of Life" Collection by Lucie & Simon





"Urban Tree Portraits" Collection by Emma Livingstone

Student Photos on Simplicity & Contrast

After the learning the techniques of simplicity and contrast in photography, students went throughout their school and practiced those skills. Here are some of their photos:

Amaireni


Irvina


Jacky




Liliana

Student Entry: I Just Want To Be Myself - Lily Gomez

In Response to Journaling Topic: "Who are you?"

I see myself as a leader and not a follower and a role model to my siblings since I’m the oldest of my brother and sisters. They think I’m a nice and weird person sometimes. I want to portray myself as a very nice person and that’s there for a friend. I just want to be myself and never someone else. So people wont say that I’m not myself.

Student Entry: Nature Means Everything To Me - Faviola

In Response to Journaling Topic: "Who are you?"

What I am is just a person who invisible. I see things that people don’t see. People think I’m annoying, people think I don’t exist, and people think I’m paranoid. I am a person who loves nature and cares about it. What I want is to see more of nature, when I see pictures of the sun, the moon, and nature; I feel inspired. I see over a million people who tried their best to help nature and I want to be one of those people because I care about nature and nature means everything to me.

Recap: Simplicity & Contrast

This week, students started learning the basic skills of photography composition. In this series called "Elements of Expression," various techniques taught are tools, not rules. They are intended to be useful guidelines that are used as elements to help photographers express their message.

Today, we went over the elements of Simplicity and Contrast. Simplicity is the art having a single object be the main focus of the photograph. This can be accomplished by having a plain background, removing any other unnecessary objects from the frame, or zooming/cropping in to the object of focus. Here are some professional examples of simplicity:





Contrast is the technique of making a part of a photograph stand out. An easy way of thinking about this is opposites. There are many different forms of contrast, but here are 3:
1. Black & White - putting a very dark and very light object/background next to each other
2. Color - Using opposite colors
3. "Bokeh" or blur - Students briefly touched on this effect, and practiced it with their cameras. It is the technique of having one object in sharp focus, while everything else is blurred.

Here are some examples of photographs using contrast. Can you name which types they are?