I have two goals for today

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I have two goals for today!

• Demystify digital cameras and their settings
• Share ideas for using digital cameras in your
  classroom

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How does your camera see the world?

• Through the lens!
• Zoomed out
• Zoomed in
• Macro?

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How your camera sees the world

• Zoomed out

Camera can focus from 1 ft. to infinity
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How your camera sees the world

• Zoomed in

Camera can focus from 1 ft. to infinity
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How your camera sees the world

• Macro

Camera can focus from 1-12 in.
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Activity How different lenses see

• Turn off your flash
• In macro mode Zoom all the way out and frame
  the toy so you can see the front and the back
  (fill the frame!)
• Back up and zoom all the way in and repeat

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Activity How different lenses see

• Choose a partner and repeat the exercise, using
  their face as your subject
• One shot zoomed out
• One shot zoomed in
• Fill the frame!

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Three essential parts of the camera
Aperture
Shutter
Sensor (or film)
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Measuring Light
The Aperture
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Measuring Light
f/22
f/8
f/2.8
Shutter open 1 sec.
Shutter open 0.5 sec.
Shutter open 0.1 sec.
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Depth of Field
The distance in front of and beyond your subject
that appears in focus
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2 Ways to Control Depth of Field

• Aperture (how big the light pipe is)
• Focal Length (how far youre zoomed in)

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Controlling DOF with the Aperture
f/22
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Controlling DOF with the Aperture
f/8
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Controlling DOF with the Aperture
f/2.8
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f/22
(1 sec.)
f/8
(1/8 sec.)
f/2.8
(1/60 sec.)
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Controlling DOF with Focal Length
115mm lens (i.e. zoomed half way in)
560mm lens (i.e. zoomed all the way in)
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What do the preset modes do?
Math! (among other things)
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Preset modes
Fast Shutter (Sharp Action)
Slow Shutter (Blurry Action)
Portrait (Limited Focus)
Landscape (Infinite Focus)
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Low-light help ISO (Film Speed)
Doubling the ISO cuts the shutter speed in half
ISO 100 Shutter Spd 1/2 sec.
ISO 3200 Shutter Spd 1/64 sec.
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One more helperFlash
Illuminates a scene for between 1/2000 and
1/30,000th of a second
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Activity Panning and the illusion of speed
Trisha is going to scoot across the room. Your
job is to take a picture where she appears in
sharp focus, yet the background is blurry. Camera
SettingsPreset Try Landscape or Slow
ShutterISO 50 or 100Flash OFF
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Activity Stopping Motion with Flash
Pair off - each pair grab one cup and one spoon.
Choose a person to fill the cup with water.

• Camera Settings and Technique
• Choose Auto mode or Fast Shutter
• Turn flash ON
• Get in close
• Keep shooting until you get nice, crisp shots!

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1.) Documentary imagery

• Class activity
• School event
• Field trip
• Home
• A process

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Pictures can tell a story
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Illustrate steps in a procedure

• Gather your materials

• Cut a holein the top

• Scoop outthe insides

• Draw aface

• Cut outthe eyes

• Then the noseand mouth

• Put a candleinside

• They dontlast forever!

Images from http//www.geocities.com/Athens/Olym
pus/7123/jack.html
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Activities for Documentary Photos

• Class Activities or Field Trips
• Writing prompt
• Newsletter
• Thank you
• Books
• Alphabet Book
• Rhyming Book
• Classification Book (Things that are cold)

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2.) Perspective

• Where is the camera looking from?
• High
• Low
• From the side

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Animal assignment
Become an animal
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Perspective Power
Whos in charge here?
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3.) Changes over time

• Short term
• Long term
• What do you see changing?

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Family Aging
Samples from http//zonezero.com/magazine/essays
/diegotime/time.html
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Short(er) Term Changes
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Same place at different times of day
9 am
9 pm
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4.) Motion or Stillness

• How can you convey motion?
• How can you convey the lack of motion?

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Feeling of Motion
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Stopping Motion (stillness)
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Motion and Stillness
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5.) It can obscure things or clarify
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Making the strange familiar and the familiar
strange
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• Making the strange familiar
• and the familiar strange

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Alphabits
Photos courtesy of Punya Mishra
http//punya.educ.msu.edu
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6.) Concepts

• Things like
• Symmetry
• Love
• Pain

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Concept Symmetry
(Found in Nature)
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Concept Symmetry
(Man-made)
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Concept Love
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Concept Pain
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More ideas on your Handout!

• For complete lesson plans, take a look at
• http//www.kodak.com/US/en/digital/edu/lessonPlans
  /

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Crash Course in Composition

• Takes time to develop a good sense
• Fill the frame with relevant things
• Try placing your subject off center
• Give people (etc.) room to look
• Consider shape and form Are you showing and
  object in 2D or 3D?

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Static vs. Dynamic Composition
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Static vs. Dynamic Composition
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Static vs. Dynamic Composition
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The rule of Thirds
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The rule of Thirds
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Shape and Form
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Shape and Form
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Shape and Form
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Must-Read Photography Books!
Understanding Exposure By Bryan Peterson
The Art of Outdoor Photography By Boyd Norton