Week Nine-WOW-Digital Photography sites for kids

With the Cluster Digital Photography competition deadline approaching what are some websites that you can recommend to help your students to learn more about Digital Photography??

Listed below are a few that i have come across that I thought might be worth a look, I am really interested to find out if you have any you would recommend to add to these.

What techniques have you used in your school to get your students excited about the competition?

The first site is great, especially the page outlining '13 lessons to Teach your child about Digital Photography'

The HP website has a nice demonstration about Taking Better photos that uses examples of photos throughout to illustrate the techniques. They also have another page 'Digital Photography Tips and ideas' that offers tips about composition and lighting among others. It is a commercial website so pushes HP products, despite this, I believe the tips were well explained and set out

The National Geographic website has a fantastic selection of Tips and examples that grab you with the vast array of stunning images from around the world. I spent quite a while exploring here!!

Looking at life through a lens offers amazing ways to consider the world around is in new and interesting ways. Encourage the students to try taking photos from different angles (from down low, up high, bird's eye view etc.) What about photographing something in a different way, not just straight on with the subject in the middle of the frame? What about using the zoom feature to take close up pictures to really change how we think about something?

The main tips- HAVE FUN! BE CREATIVE and EXPERIMENT



Next week, I will give ideas for FREE online photo editing tools

For teachers wanting ideas for how to use Adobe software in their classes (specifically using photos) there is an interesting Teacher Resource collection available through the education part of Adobe's website

Until Next Time
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