Something new and exciting here at the Digital Art Teacher: I’ll now be offering Photography lessons! As part of these lessons, I’ll add new blog posts discussing what quality photography looks like and giving simple tips to help improve student photography.
Photography, I think, is an interesting art. I say this because anybody can do it, but not everybody has the patience to learn how to see with a photographer’s eye. So one of the first things I say to the kids who take my digital photography class is, “In this semester, I will be teaching you how to see.”
It’s more complicated than you might think. People (especially high school kids) take thousands of pictures a year. But a picture is not a piece of art until you visualize what the image will look like before you snap a shot. So there is a difference between a snapshot and a quality photo.
With these photo lessons, I hope to teach kids how to use their cameras (even the ones on their phones) for more than just selfies. I hope they will be able to recognize a quality photo and take quality photos. Photos that are interesting to look at and tell a viewer a story without uttering a word. Besides, many artists aren’t very good with words anyway.
I will add new lessons every week for the next two months, AND I will write a new blog post weekly discussing photo-taking tips for students (and teachers 🙂 to use when taking pictures.