The school was having a seminar in the classroom we usually use, so after some phone calls we were able to get another room to teach in. Not a huge turn out on the sunset/sunrise portion, and not a single low light picture. Of the pictures that I did get, some were pretty good, others were alright, but what was really great was that of the pictures I did get, it was picture after picture after picture after picture. All sorts of different angles, heights, through the trees, on top of the compound, everything. I was excited. This is exactly what I've been looking for in the girls, taking a lot of pictures from different ways, some will turn out really bad and others will turn out unexpectedly great.
Overall, I was pretty happy. One of the pictures that I really liked was a sunset picture that the girl took that didn't even have the sun in it. This is one of those thinking outside the box type deals that I think is an important quality to have in photography.
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After we reviewed the photos, we started to learn about still life photography. For this, what I wanted them to learn from it was how important it is to understand the background in pictures and the lighting. Lots of times it's hard to control these things, but you always need to be paying attention while taking the photos. In still life photography, every aspect of the photo is under your control. I want them to play around with backgrounds, objects, lighting, everything. After this they'll hopefully get a better understanding of what a difference in the pictures these things can make. Spending so much time focusing just on these elements, I'm hoping it'll help them to pay more attention when taking pictures where they can't literally go around re arranging everything to make it just right.
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Hey Logan, another thing that's pretty neat is that even though many of the girls are basically from the same place you don't have lots and lots of photos of pretty much the same view. I like how they are framing their photos too, not taking your assignment literally and just standing normally, putting the sun in the middle of the frame and pressing the shutter button. These girls' classes are really impressive.
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