For the last couple Fridays I have been going to Sacred Heart School in Bellevue where my son Julian attends. We met last Friday and talked a bit about the project we are putting together for the School Auction. In the past, I tried to put together a lesson plan and really push the class. But, I quickly learned that the kids will last about 5 minutes before they start to squirm, warble, and get restless fast. Granted they were 2nd graders, and this is a 6th grade class - needless to say I wasn’t too hopeful. Boy was I surprised! They were attentive, and alert. So this past Friday we put the class in motion. They had 20 minutes to take images of the anything they wanted to on the grounds of the school. I was worried it wouldn’t be enough time. About 10 minutes into it I think they got everything they needed. After that it was images of car grills, and some of the good shots were of them taking images of the insides of their mouths, shoes, rocks. We tried to keep in mind that the focus (pardon the easy pun) was on composition, depth of field and converging lines. After the class they left all the cameras with Marie and I. We downloaded the files (well, attempted is a better word. I was impressed with the different thype of media that was pulled out of the cameras, as well as the images that were still on the Cameras!
the final project is going to be twp very large boards that we are putting together for the Auction. Each student will have one image (their best) with a photo of themselves, as well as their signature. Each board represents each class room. They should be about 24X30, compress mounted and coated ready to hang. I will post a couple images from the shoot in a couple days. I will try to remember to get an image of the final product as well.
Cheers!
~C
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