Photography

This term we are studying creativity and innovation (Arts and Technology) through photography. We are discussing how we can look at the environment around us from different perspectives using photography.

A website that has a number of photos of the environment, with excellent explanations, worth looking at is http://www.ilachinski.com/digital_images_intro.htm. There is a lot of ideas for us to think about. **Do we see the environment as the photographer does?**

This is an example of a photo that Bella took in our school environment and our perspectives of it using Haiku: media type="custom" key="2708987"

We are using [|Picasaweb] to store our digital photos online. **Room 16:**
 * sign in using the same username and passsword as our Blogger account;
 * create a new album in Picasaweb for your photos, __use only your first name as the name of the album__ (it will automatically be a public album - we want this);
 * because it is a public album, and we are looking at the environment through photography, **NO PHOTOS OF PEOPLE**.

Homework
If you are allowed to use your parents' digital camera take a range of photos of things in your environment from different perspectives.

After downloading them to your computer up-load them to the website [|Dumpr] to try some different effects. You can then embed them straight onto __your page on the wiki__ by copying the code (in the box on the left of the webpage of Dumpr) and pasting it into the widget window (click on the television in the editing bar and then click Other HTML). Make sure the cursor is in the correct place on your page.

Bella has also found another website called [|Picnik]. You can then save the photos directly to your album in our Picasaweb account from this website. Do this after you have uploaded it to Picnik and edited your photo by clicking on Save & Share, then select your album from Picasaweb (if you haven't already, create one with your first name as name of the album).

See the links below for helpful tips on taking photos.

Useful Links
[|Beginning Photography Tips] [|How to Take a Good Picture] [|Kodak Top 10 Tips]