FIELD IMAGE SURVEY

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FIELD IMAGE SURVEY
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A DIGITAL CAMERA IS AN IMPORTANT RESEARCH TOOL
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Understand By Seeing
Explain By Showing
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Understand by Seeing

• Go to the field
• Try to observe by taking pictures
• If some one explains, ask him/ her to show it to
  you
• Seeing is having evidence
• By seeing often confusion or misunderstanding
  disappears
• Develop a Trained Eye try to see as the local
  expert

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TRY TO CAPTURE THE KNOWLEDGE OF LOCAL SPECIALISTS
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Explaining by Showing

• A picture says more than a thousand words
• Many people anyhow do not have much time to read
  or listen
• A picture needs no translation
• A picture is idea and proof at the same time
• Many things you can only show with pictures

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Steps

• When in the field, try to see things through the
  camera and take pictures
• Ask local experts and resource persons to explain
  and show what they mean
• Take photographs
• Prepare presentations with these pictures
• Use circles and arrows to pinpoint special things
  in the picture
• Use captions to explain the things you cannot see

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Example
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What is happening here?
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But no Agreement on use of its water
Groundwater overuse in Yemen dry aquifers
Even though dam is at 1 km distance
Irrigation By tanker
From well at 8 km distance
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PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS

• Use series of photographs this can make a story
• Think of detail and think of overview
• People make pictures more interesting

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Tell a Story with a Series of Pictures People
Make Picture More Interesting
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Captions Tips

• Bold text
• Not too many textblocks
• Not too many mouseclicks
• If too much information show in two slides

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Advantages

• Makes local knowledge clear
• Over time you will see more
• Easy
• Fast and convincing communication
• Can directly use in training/ presentation

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