Calling all student photographers...

Attention Dolvin photo club members and any other Dolvin student photographers, send me your best summer pics and I will publish them right here before school starts. Club members can use our Shutterfly account - look for the "summer 13" album for uploading - and non-members can email your pics to me at knighth@fultonschools.org. Looking forward to seeing your best summer shots!

So it's a little late, but my photo club kids had fun documenting the signs of spring around our building a couple of months ago. Here are a few highlights...

Hehe, Leenah got this one of me as we were heading out for our last shoot. 

Here are two pics I shot from my front porch this summer, the spiderweb in the morning and the froggie in the evening.

Still life photos on iPad

This super cool photography club lesson was inspired by a post over at Media Arts Maxwell, so thank you for your great idea! My 5th grade photo club members worked in teams to assemble interesting still lifes to photograph and edit with our iPads. Artist Audrey Flack makes paintings of interesting combinations of objects that come together to tell a story symbolically, and we enjoyed looking at her work before beginning ours. We used the Paint FX app for the editing and coloring. Some of the still life photos are the same image but edited differently by group members.

Ansel Adams style, Dolvin Photo Club

 

Ansel Adams was a master photographer and conservationist in America. His black and white landscapes are iconic, whether expansive vistas or close up views. Fifth grade club members engaged in a discussion about the characteristics of his work, such as value and texture contrasts, before heading out onto the nature trail around the school. After a nice afternoon of photo shooting, we edited the pictures back in the computer lab - please enjoy some of our results!

                           

Photo club project: toy animals

5th grade photography club members had much fun creating man made and natural environments for our plastic toy animals, using our cameras to create settings as if these were full size animals. Thanks to New City Arts blog for the idea - I read about their project a year ago and have been excited to give it a go. We began with man made settings in class using a variety of materials, then we took the animals outside and focused more on point of view to capture a realistic look. We used our iPad 2's for taking the photos and cropping them. Today we learned how to upload to Shutterfly!

Photography club: getting started

Our club has met 3 times so far, and we have learned the different functions on the camera and some very basic editing options, as well as learning to save our work from the camera folders on our laptops into our individual folders. Our first photos were taken outside, looking for lines and shapes in our surroundings. During editing, we talk about creating an interesting composition through positive and negative space. Next, we are planning to move our pictures to an online gallery, so students can work on them at home or share them with family and friends, and eventually create a club blog. Here are some of our very first "elemental" pics of lines and shapes...