Digital Photography/ Advanced Commercial Photography
Student work...
I taught digital photography to the high school students at Beehive Academy Charter school for two years where I developed a curriculum based on photography as communication for social and political change. We study the history of photography and prepare a presentation about a famous photographer. The Newspaper Publication class at Clayton was titled Photo-Journalism last year. In that class we learn about digital manipulation, and copyright infringement, as well as the principals of composition, how to use a camera, and what makes a compelling photo. We also produced the content for the school newsletter using publisher and produced the Yearbook.
I have brought photographers Richard Menzies ideas on photo-journalism and using your photos to inspire your writing and John Schaefer’s ideas of “Active Seeing” into my teaching. John collected photographs taken and edited by my students of things downtown that they had never noticed before, printed them and displayed them in the County Mayor’s office last Spring.
For the past two years, I have used the NPR production of American photography to study the motivations for and public reaction to photography throughout American history. This summer I became a member of the National Geographic Society which provides amazing digital insights into photography as a vehicle for change, that I would like to incorporate into my curriculum.
Two new processes that I would like to explore in Digital Photography is animating layers in Photoshop and Gimp. I have seen this done and know an artist that can take us though the process. The other is incorporating more traditional and untraditional printmaking techniques with photographic printing.
I have brought photographers Richard Menzies ideas on photo-journalism and using your photos to inspire your writing and John Schaefer’s ideas of “Active Seeing” into my teaching. John collected photographs taken and edited by my students of things downtown that they had never noticed before, printed them and displayed them in the County Mayor’s office last Spring.
For the past two years, I have used the NPR production of American photography to study the motivations for and public reaction to photography throughout American history. This summer I became a member of the National Geographic Society which provides amazing digital insights into photography as a vehicle for change, that I would like to incorporate into my curriculum.
Two new processes that I would like to explore in Digital Photography is animating layers in Photoshop and Gimp. I have seen this done and know an artist that can take us though the process. The other is incorporating more traditional and untraditional printmaking techniques with photographic printing.