Read the Semester 1 or 2 outlines. The lesson title corresponds to the folders in Google Drive on the right. Navigate the folders and presentations and resources are contained within. Sometimes practice photos are provided, I also write the tutorials from scratch. This year we ended at the third quarter due to COVID 19 so I only made it a part of the way through the portrait unit, so I will finish the year with that.

Some lessons have videos I have made, most now have a mix of videos from YouTube and ones I've made. Browse the playlist for videos I have made. On my channel I also post multiple public playlists of useful videos on a wide variety of topics, its under Playlists> Created playlists.

My photography program has 10 DSLR's of varying types, a full computer lab with Adobe CC 2018, students save Lightroom catalogs to synced OneDrive accounts, we are an Office 365 school, and I have some static lights, a green screen, backdrops, tripods, reflectors, but no other equipment or fancy lenses. I find equipment dictates curriculum, much of this can be adapted to a low camera program or a cell phone only program. The hit it can't take is adobe, there is a lot of Lightroom and Photoshop in these lessons because I simply don't have enough cameras to teach more photo skills.

My curriculum is digital photography focused, with an emphasis on fine art photography and photo-manipulation. There is some writing in the Portraits unit. I'll be making it more technical skills focused and more spread out into smaller chunked assignments as I adjust this curriculum for Photo 2 next year. You can probably take most Photoshop assignments and stretch them out into smaller discrete skills and steps. Right now they are only separated by shoot and post-production.

My class periods are 54 minutes a piece, I have students listen to a short lecture, look at examples both professional and student, demonstrate a skill or walk students through a process step by step, then the rest of the time is for the to repeat and iterate on that fundamental skill. Some days are studio days where they have time to take photos, this can be a few days or a week depending on your students motivation level.

Students hand in work via Microsoft Teams via a link to a OneDrive folder. Students usually form small groups per camera and pass it around to take shots.

If you have questions, message me in Microsoft Teams or email jturek @ smcjuhsd [dot] org