Basic photography and Digital Imagaing Techniques

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I have already spent most of this afternoon searching both here and google for the above techniques with little success.

I am looking for info that even a seven year old can understand, although in my case they may be adults.

Is there anything out there that I will be able to print for handouts that people will understand?
 
What do you want to do?

Who are the target audience and what are their expected learning outcomes?

Is this hands-on or hand-out-and-forget?
 
Alastair said:
What do you want to do?

Who are the target audience and what are their expected learning outcomes?

Is this hands-on or hand-out-and-forget?
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Adults with a basic knowledge of photography. looking for both hands on and hand outs.
 
10x 2hr evening classes weekly over the next three months? - eventual aim to take better portraits, landscapes, etc and digitally process and print

2hrs with the WI next Wednesday? - basic hands-on, how to take slightly better snaps?
 
try looking at one of the scott kelby books - all very simply put, digital photography 1 might be the one to start off with.
 
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If you can't find exactly what you want, you could write your own. ;)

Make a list of what you want to get over in the allotted time, and then try to make, find, or find then adapt handouts to your needs.

The difficult thing will be targeting to the correct level of the learners.
 
I know it's getting a slagging on the other thread.. but the format being used on How to take stunning pictures is possibly just what you need..

Pick three principles or concepts per class (more than this will confuse people). Don't get hung up on the technicalties of exposure.. go for broad brush composition concepts because, let's face it, on Auto anyone can get a decent exposure the majority of the time.

A session might be..Rule of thirds, lead-in lines, and converging lines (easy for people to remember, it's the Lines session, and they work together well).

If you did want to get technical.. then you could do:
  • Aperture priority and depth of field
  • Shutter priority and panning
But keep any technical classes much simpler than composition classes. You're more likely to lose the audience during these sessions.

Look to the Scot Kelby books, Understanding Exposure and The Photographer's Eye (the Michael Freeman book, not the other one) to get your principles.

For a 2 hour session..
  • 15 minutes reviewing what you did in the last session (because you want them to remember it and build on it with the next set of principles)
  • Introduce the principles seperately
  • Introduce how the principles work together (including what you've introduced in previous sessions)
  • Class goes off and practices/dicusses in groups, you circulate
  • Class comes back and reviews
  • Wrap-up and reinforce the learning points
If you want to set assignments between sessions then do that at the end and dicuss these in the Review at the start of the next session (but extend the review according to class size).

You'll only need three pages of A4/A5 as a handout.. one for each of the three principles you're introducing that session, including a bit of a description and some example pictures or diagrams. Eventually these will all build into a useful folder for the students to refer back to.
 
If you want to collaborate on something let me know..
 
Alastair said:
I know it's getting a slagging on the other thread.. but the format being used on How to take stunning pictures is possibly just what you need..

Pick three principles or concepts per class (more than this will confuse people). Don't get hung up on the technicalties of exposure.. go for broad brush composition concepts because, let's face it, on Auto anyone can get a decent exposure the majority of the time.

A session might be..Rule of thirds, lead-in lines, and converging lines (easy for people to remember, it's the Lines session, and they work together well).

If you did want to get technical.. then you could do:
  • Aperture priority and depth of field
  • Shutter priority and panning
But keep any technical classes much simpler than composition classes. You're more likely to lose the audience during these sessions.

Look to the Scot Kelby books, Understanding Exposure and The Photographer's Eye (the Michael Freeman book, not the other one) to get your principles.

For a 2 hour session..
  • 15 minutes reviewing what you did in the last session (because you want them to remember it and build on it with the next set of principles)
  • Introduce the principles seperately
  • Introduce how the principles work together (including what you've introduced in previous sessions)
  • Class goes off and practices/dicusses in groups, you circulate
  • Class comes back and reviews
  • Wrap-up and reinforce the learning points
If you want to set assignments between sessions then do that at the end and dicuss these in the Review at the start of the next session (but extend the review according to class size).

You'll only need three pages of A4/A5 as a handout.. one for each of the three principles you're introducing that session, including a bit of a description and some example pictures or diagrams. Eventually these will all build into a useful folder for the students to refer back to.
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I wish my tutor last year had had such good well formed ideas - great advice :thumbs:
 
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