Photo: Projects: Photo Walk

Unit

• Expanding Skillsets

Questions

• How do we find interesting photographic moments and stories out in our world?

What am I making?

• A Photo Walk page for your Google Site

  • Take lots of photos on a nearby walk, edit your favorite 3, write what you did and learned!

How do I make it?

• Photo Walk Ideas & Strategies

  • Review of Compositional Techniques (Steve McCurry Photographs)

  • What do I look for on a Photo Walk? (Digital Photography School)

  • 12 Tips to Get the Most out of a Photo Walk (Expert Photography)

  • Keep on Walkin' (Apogee Photo)

  • 13 Creative Exercises for Photographers (B&H)

• Photography Tips

  • Killin' It (Video) with Kenneth Wayne

  • 6 Tips (Video) from Pixel Village

Steps

1. Setup new Google Sites page

   • In Google Drive, find your site and open it, or find it in Google Sites

   • Pages tab - + create a new Page - title it "Photo Walk"

   • Add layouts for 3 pairs of 2 images

   • Add text titled "What I learned"

2. Review Photo Walk Ideas & Strategies (see above)

3. Review Photography Tips (see above)

4. Go on your Photo Walk and get photos!

   • Look for interesting visual elements

   • Be playful, take lots of photos! Experiment, try things!

5. Delete photos you obviously don't want before uploading

6. Upload your photos to a Google Photo album (signed into es-cat.org)

7. Edit 3 of the photos to improve Lighting, Color, Cropping

   • Link: Lesson on Photographic Editing

   • Video Tutorial: Editing Photos with Google Photos

   • Make sure to Make a Copy of each before editing!

8. Add your 3 original photos paired with the 3 edited versions on your Photo Walk Google Site page

9. Describe the edits of each of the 3 photos - what adjustments did you make to Lighting, Color, Cropping?

10. In the What I Learned section at the bottom, describe photography techniques, camera techniques, and editing techniques you learned about doing this assignment.

11. Push Publish and copy the link to the page and add the link to your Google Classroom assignment and turn in.

12. Bonus: Select one of a couple of your favorite photos and author a blog post with some of your thoughts about the images.

    • 9th Blog: https://d-r-e-a-m-cat.blogspot.com

    • 11th/12th Blog: https://d-r-e-a-m-y-cat.blogspot.com

Grading

• 2/C = Page link showing 3 pairs of 2 photos - original and edited, basic explanations of what you edited and learned

• 3/B = Do the 2/C work, with explanations that use specific technical terms of editing and photography and camera settings.

• 4/A = Do the 3/B work, with rich explanations about what you learned

Career Connections

• Endless... making your images compelling has many purposes and benefits!

More Resources

• A collection of Photo Composition resources

• A collection of Phone Cameras resources

• You and your world! Keep your phones and cameras handy. Be ready for special moments and subjects!