Weds/Thurs: DP - The Photo Walk [Digital Photography]

"[Photography] is an immediate sketch, done with intuition, 

and you can't [really] correct it..." 

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Warm up:  

• Get out your equipment and charge it for the next 10 minutes if you can. 
• Now...
• Tie your shoelaces
• Get valuables out of your backpack and into your pockets if you are not carrying your backpack with you.
• Find a buddy to walk with
• Pledge to NOT be the last kids walking in the group (if everyone does this we won't get so spread out and have such a yellie, waitie walk)

Unit Learning Target(s):  

• How can we take good pictures no matter what kind of camera we have at the moment? 
• How can we use our critical thinking skills to MAKE a good picture happen?

Unit Product (Due AFTER Spring Break): 

• "Community" Photo
• Student Writing on concept of Community
• Student Photo of concept
• Photoshop additions & modifications to further concept
• Student Exhibition of Community Photos &/or PSA

Daily Learning Target(s):  

• I can PRACTICE at least five major techniques of good digital photography [as laid out in our Best Practices NOTES] by USING THEM when I take MY OWN PICTURES

Current Product (DUE TODAY): 

• YOU must take at least FIVE distinctly different pictures today each illustrating a different technique from your Best Practices NOTES  
• YOU must be able to explain WHY you took it and WHAT technique you used

Announcements: 

Hella Healthy meets in the THEATER with a SUB this Friday

Agenda: 

• Photo Walk [100]
• Rules [10]
• You MUST be able to see JOHN @ ALL TIMES
• You MAY NOT be more than 1/2 block away from John, who will try to walk in the middle of the pack
• You MUST NOT CROSS ON RED.  I will give you an NC if you jaywalk.  Just wait for the green.  We will wait for you.
• YOU must take pictures today and YOU must be able to explain WHY you took it and WHAT TECHNIQUE you used.
• You MAY NOT go inside ANY business or building so don't ask to be allowed to
• we tried that last year and some kids don't seem to know what "no" means and made fools of us.
• You may not sit on any cars, climb on any walls, or otherwise do anything but walk on the sidewalk unless John specifically tells YOU that you can.
• Parkour is NOT on today's agenda
• You MAY take a picture of anyone or anything you can see from outside
• It is polite but not necessary to ask permission if you want to take someone's portrait.
• If they are just "in the picture" and it isn't "of them" then permission is not necessary and will slow you down.
• You MUST try to take a photograph that represents EACH of the techniques you selected for yourself.
• Get a note sheet from John if you were absent yesterday or if your's sucks
• You are ENCOURAGED to leave your stuff in the Lab - the door will be locked.
• Walk [90]
• Approximate Route (1.9 Miles, 39 minutes walking + time for stopping to shoot pictures)