High School Independent Study Digital Photo Class

Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District

Vineyard High School

Digital Photo

Course # 60270

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Each week (for 18 weeks for 5 credits) bring in at least five of your best photos relating to one theme.  (To finish in 9 weeks bring in photos relating to 2 themes.) Write a statement about each of the photos.  Include in the statement what you intended to capture in the photo, problems you encountered (such as, too much shadow over peoples faces, etc.) and solutions you found to these problems.

A Note to Teachers:  You may want to have your students check out a photography book at the library in order to challenge themselves each week.  Have your student bring in notes each week about the topic they are studying in the digital photography book.

WEEK 1- 16

Discuss with your teacher what themes you would like to photograph each week. Some ideas are listed here:

Windows and doorways                 Animals                                         Mothers and Children

Plants                                                            Portraits                            Dads

Shadows                                                    Hands                                Sunsets            

People in motion                                  Food                                   Shoes

Landscapes                                              Photos in a sequence Faces found in nature

Skyscapes                                                     Trees                              Buildings

Silhouettes                                                   Flowers                         Textures

Sports                                                Transportation              Night

                                                                                                                   

WEEK 17 & 18

Final Project

Develop your own project and discuss it with your teacher or choose one from this list:

1.      Make a calendar with 12 of your best photos.  (Kinkos can help you print the calendar(s) to look professional enough to give as gifts to family and friends.)

2.      Mat, frame and enter one or two of your photos in the Alameda County Fair.  Entries are usually due each year in May.

3.      Use Windows Movie Maker to make a movie setting your photos to music or use PowerPoint to make a slideshow.

4.      Research several professional photographers (Dorothea Lange, Carl Mydans, Margaret Bourke-White, Alfred Steiglitz, etc.) and experiment with imitating their styles and subject matter.