What's Going on in the Classroom: Photography- Shutter Speed

Just an update on Photography students! Students just finished up learning about and using shutter speed successfully in their photography to blur and freeze motion and paint with light. Look at the amazing results they achieved!

What's Going on in the Classroom: Photography Students at Work

First of all, one of our very own photo students combined her love of journalism and her awesome photo skills to photography portraits (what we just learned about!) for the school  news paper! Check it out!

Photos by Audrey Whitaker

The rest of the photo students are hard at work using their Shutter Speed as a tool to stop motion, blur motion, paint with light, pan, and create multiple exposures! Look at these great photographers putting their skills to the test!

So many photographers in one place!

Freezing motion!

Light painting in the MPR

I'll let you determine if these girls are really hard at work :)

What's Going on in the Classroom: Photography Projects

Since it's the end of the quarter, photo students have just turned in their first batch of edited pictures. Their assignments were to take images of hands, portraits, and still lives. While taking these images, students had to use Aperture Priority Mode, which means they were adjusted the aperture setting while the camera adjusted the other settings. As we move forward into the year, students will experiment with the shutter speed controls and then setting all the controls manually. These images are great! Check them out, artist's listed below the image:

Nicole Sceglio

Sully Costa

Kristina Dalian

Ella Diepen

Lindsey Dyans

Kate Gavagan

Cassidy Hampton

Lauren Harrison

Anna Hensien

Jack Holme

Thomas Jogan

Agata Lubanski

Sam Mcleod

Iyla O'Conner

Sheylan Budek

Sarah Rabuat

Stephanie Schervish

Claire Shea

Chloe Skiles

What's Going on in the Classroom: Elements and Principles with Photography

A couple of entries ago, I promised I'd post some examples of the Elements and Principles images that my Photo 1 students have taken. There were a lot of good ones to pick from, let me tell you! The assignment was for each student to go out and take new pictures! Each picture should illustrate one of the fifteen Elements and Principles of Art that we had spent some time talking about. After they took them all, we voted on which ones best represented each category and those students received some extra credit! 

What's Going on in the Classroom: First Days of School!

So we're almost to the end of the first week of school. This was the first time in 6 years that I've taught the same classes in the same building. So you better believe I was on top of my game. Check out the classrooms!

Learning Targets, a big push in our district right now.

First day materials, class lists etc... all done!

Awesome Concepts and Materials classroom ready for art making!

Our Elements and Principles, and the felted tapestry kids made last year.

Photo Room!

All copies made and ready to go!

I have to say, being all ready to go for the first day, by the Friday before, really made for more confidence and excitement during the first week! So here's a little about what we did in class with our first days.

In Concepts and Materials, (foundations art class) we did a really cool first day assignment based on the art of Cheeming Boey, click on his name to check out a cool video! Inspired by his work, we doodled on Styrofoam cups. I plan on stacking them in the display case as an amazing installation piece for Back to School Night. Here are a couple examples of what the kids did:

In Photography, we started off the year with the History of Photography and discussion of the Elements and Principles of Design. Students are still taking photos for the E and P assignment, I'll post them when they're done. But check out the cool History of Photography Timeline we are starting! The class was divided into groups and each group researched a certain era of photographic history. Then they recorded the info on a large piece of paper along with decorations and pictures. When they're done, we'll put them all together to make our own History of Photography Timeline! Here some in-progress shots, the final image I'll post later!