About Us

Samtse LSS Photography and Videography Club was created with a motive to serve as a community that supports and nurtures the passion for visual storytelling. The club provides a space for learning, creativity, collaboration, and engagement with students who share a common interest in capturing and creating compelling images and videos.

• Introduce students to the basics of composition in photography, including the rule of thirds, rule of space, diagonals, symmetry and asymmetry, frames, and the golden ratio.

• Teach students about the exposure triangle and how to adjust shutter speed, aperture size, and ISO to achieve the desired exposure in a photograph.

• Provide an introduction to dSLR cameras, including different lenses/focal lengths and mounts.

• Teach students about three-point lighting and how to use key, fill, and back lights to create different moods and effects in their photographs and videos.

• Introduce students to the ethical considerations of photography and videography, including forced perspective, stereotyping, right to privacy, and post-editing.

• Teach students about different image sizes and angles, including extreme long shot, long shot, mid shot, close up, extreme close up, high angle, low angle, and mid shot.

• Teach students about camera movements such as tilt, pan, zoom, dolly shot, pedestal, and truck.

• Introduce students to the basics of critiquing movies and documentaries, including analyzing form and content.

• Teach students about color temperature and how to adjust white balance when shooting indoors and outdoors.

• Provide an introduction to video editing software and teach students basic editing techniques such as split, frame rate, in and out, transitions, tracks, sound, and adding text.

• Teach students about different types of cuts in video editing, including hard cut, J cut, L cut, and jump cut.

• Introduce students to script writing and provide them with the opportunity to create their own short films or videos.