Through the Eye of the Lens

1. Through the Eye of the Lens

2. Who am I?

9. Atacama Crossing

10. Sahara Race

11. Gobi March

12. The Last Desert (Antarctica)

17. Course Outline
THIS IS YOUR COURSE!
• What are your expectations?
Complete the Google Form and give
you feedback

18. Course Outline
This is YOUR course!
• Project based
• Photo expeditions and exhibitions
• Getting to know your camera
• Sessions with professionals
• Blog and portfolio
• Exhibition at end
• Skills development - creativity,
collaboration, communication,
capacity to learn, conscience

19. Why do we take photographs?
Work with someone you haven’t worked
with before to create a mind map.
This will be the first
piece of work
included in your
blog
http://photographyconcentrate.com/54-reasons-why-you-should-be-
photographer/

47. Imagine a world without
photography!
Which genres of photography most
appeal to you.
Add your top three
to a post it and
place it on the
board.

48. Now lets build our blog!
• Follow the instructions at this link if you
have not created a blog before;
• Ensure that you are logged in with your
school account;
• Your blog must start with ‘photo15’

49. Now lets build our blog!
• Use any template except DYNAMIC
view;
• Add some gadgets to your blog.
Suggestions are Labels, Newsreel;
• Customize your blog by altering the
layout and template.

50. Your Ultimate Photograph
• Find three different images that when you
look at them you just go, wow!
• What do you like about those images?
• Describe what is happening in those
picture. Do they tell a story? What is the
background behind the image?
• Is there anything that you would change
about the image at all?
• Use the websites on the next slide if
needed.

51. Inspiring Photographic Galleries
• Sony World Photography Awards
• National Geographic Traveller Award
• Smithsonian Photo Contest
• Wildlife Photographer of the Year
• World Press Photo of the Year
Add your image to the Smugmug link
you have been sent

59. Inspiring images are often not
the ones that are the best
composed but are ones that
tell a story.

60. Today’s Project
You are going to take some photographs around school to
make a collage. You will need to choose enough photos to
form a square after editing (minimum 9). Your camera
should be on auto unless you know how to use the other
settings.
Either choose to study colour or texture to focus on.
1. Colour: pick a colour, and take photos where that colour
is dominant in the image.
2. Texture: rough, smooth, serrated, bumpy, brick, wood,
metal...there are tons of textures to capture out there.
Shoot close and fill the frame.

61. Examples

62. Examples

63. Home Learning
Finish your collage of either colour or texture.
In groups of 4 or 5 you are now going to
develop a group collage of the alphabet.
This might sound simple as we see text and
writing everywhere we go in our daily lives.
However, each letter you take must be created
from an everyday object that you might also
see in your environment.
Have a look at the examples on the next slides
for some ideas.

64. Examples

65. Examples