Photojournalism

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Sports Photos: Middle School

Students will explore websites and YouTube videos for strategies and techniques for taking good sports photos. 

Social media + Photography: Middle School

In this two-day lesson, students will be introduced to many issues surrounding social media, technology and photography, including copyright considerations and how to use photography effectively in different social media outlets.  Then, students will experiment with using a specific social media outlet.

Aspects of exposure: Middle school

In this 2-day lesson, students will research an aspect of exposure. They will learn about that aspect and prepare a poster that includes explanations and examples and activities in order to teach the rest of the class about that exposure aspect.

Five Things to Spend Your Budget On

This lesson makes some suggestions for what to spend your money on. Students will plan a purchase based on your staff’s needs.

10 Questions to Ask Before Taking a Photo

This lesson will encourage photographers to move away from simple point-and-shoot, selfie-rich photography to making several critical decisions before taking each photo.

Photoshop Adjustment Layers

Students will use adjustment layers in Photoshop to improve a photo using non-destructive methods.

Cutting Out Backgrounds in Photoshop

Students will use two methods to make a cutout background of an image. This will also cover the integration of Photoshop and InDesign.

Making selections in Photoshop

This lesson will cover a handful of the multiple ways to make selections in Photoshop.

Using Adobe Bridge for File Management

In this lesson, students are introduced to Bridge, a powerful tool that Adobe now allows everyone to download for free.

10 questions to ask before taking a photo

Cropping for impact

This lesson will explore the impact of cropping an image from the inside out.

Using histograms to adjust exposure

Students will learn what a histogram is and see examples of correctly exposed, overexposed and underexposed images to study histograms and how the camera’s light meter works.

Flash photography

In this lesson, students will explore the use of external flashes to augment available light and control image lighting.

Choosing photos for publication

Students will participate in a fictional scenario in which they make decisions about the front page content for their student newspaper, The Monthly Gazette.

Photography in motion

In this short lesson, students will learn about several different methods of capturing motion in photography, including techniques for blurring and freezing motion.

News and feature photos

In this one-day lesson, students will explore the differences between news and feature photos.

Capture the moment

Students will learn about the importance of storytelling in journalistic photography.

Photojournalism in the newsroom: Assessment

In this lesson, students will take the quiz to assess their knowledge of how photojournalism works in the newsroom.

Introduction to basic exposure

Students will learn about one of the different aspects of exposure (ISO, Shutter Speed, Aperture).

Comprehensive photojournalism review & exam

In this two-day lesson, students will play a game of Snowball Fight to review history & ethics information.

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