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08/19/2006 11:31:32 AM · #1 |
so just to get it out in the open im in no way a pro photographer or have any experience in teaching photogrpahy courses.
anyways let me begin by telling you how i came about to be teaching a course on photography. i work out at a summer camp for children and this summer the board of the camp decided to add a digital photography camp at the end of the summer. now ive been in africa for the past three months and came into the summer halfway through camp season and when they found out i was the only one that had any photography experience(point and shoot excluded) they signed me up to do the course. so ive got a plan all ready but just to pull a few more resourse i thought i would talk to the dpchallenge community and see if they had any ideas on some basic subjects i could teach(remember these will be younger children with point and shoot cameras most likly so only the basics.)
i get three 1 hour blocks a day to teach so i was thinking that i could teach a concept during the morning. give them a subject and let them shoot the second block then in the third block go through the photos.
so any suggestions on techniques subjects(kinda like we get every week here on dpc) would be greatly appreciated |
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08/19/2006 11:37:56 AM · #2 |
You are not alone. there have been a couple of summer camp teachers posted similar questions. Unfortunately, I can't find them, yet.
Composition is always a good place to start.
Or something to get the kids to look at subjects from unusual perspectives instead of just straight on. From the Ground Up, Looking Down, Inside Out, etc. |
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08/19/2006 11:44:46 AM · #3 |
| An interesting way to show what goes on inside a camera is to take a room and make it into a giant camera obscura by covering all the windows, making an aperture in the window covering and hanging a white sheet on the opposite wall. The kids can watch what's going on outside by looking at the sheet. |
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08/19/2006 03:55:37 PM · #4 |
Originally posted by Spazmo99:
An interesting way to show what goes on inside a camera is to take a room and make it into a giant camera obscura by covering all the windows, making an aperture in the window covering and hanging a white sheet on the opposite wall. The kids can watch what's going on outside by looking at the sheet. |
That's a really cool idea. I think the OP should go with that. |
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08/19/2006 04:25:01 PM · #5 |
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08/19/2006 04:42:07 PM · #6 |
have a subject and get closer to it
Have critiques with the children giving feedback on one another's photos
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08/19/2006 06:18:56 PM · #7 |
| thanks guys all great suggestions i dont know the ages of the kids but quite young |
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