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Virtual Photo Course Opportunity

Photo: Avarie Dennis

The Magenta Photo Program offers up a Great Opportunity

If you, or someone you know aged 14-18, would like to understand the techniques used in professional photography or simply use the camera on your smartphone in more effective ways, please join us for Capture Photography Festival’s online photography course, Learning to Capture: The Fundamentals of Photography. This course, taught by Rachel Topham, is a free, virtual, four-week photography course, designed for individuals aged 14-18

For a detailed course description, please visit our website by clicking this link.

If you would like to register for the course, please email engagement@capturephotofest.com

TERM 4 PHOTO/WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

TERM 4 PHOTO

Photo: Eli Jones











If you are really interested in stretching your photography & writing skills, please see the post on enrichment photography and writing. There you will find links to different ideas, videos etc which will be useful for enhancing the craft of photography and writing.

Photo Walk/Spring shots: Go for a walk, stroll or roll in your neighbourhood or to a special isolated location with your camera phone or camera and really look at what is around you. Take photos focusing on different angles and focusing on lighting. Spring is all around us and we have been waiting for the outer world to wake up, find some signs of spring. Try taking photos of the same subject from different perspectives. Take lots of photos, more than you need. Edit and post your best 10 photos to Flickr in an album called Photo Walk.

Criteria: Photos should be clearly focused, have clean backgrounds, be well composed and have a distinct focal point. Marks: 20 Due Friday May 15 posted in an album on Flickr.

Final Photo Showcase: Check out the inspiration post (on the page before this one) for lots of creative ideas of things you can take photos of at home. There are photo opportunities all around you, just decide to get busy and experiment. This assignment is due on Flickr at the end of the term. It was going to be our final slideshow, but your final photos can just be put on to Flickr in an album for me to view and mark. I have reduced this assignment to 30 photos, 10 of which can be from before this class started or from previous assignments in this class. But that means I will be looking for 20 newly shot photos. You have tons of choice on this assignment, you just need to get out and take photos.

Criteria: This is a collection of your best photos. Photos should be clearly focused, well composed, creative, and have a distinct focal point. I do not want to see all flowers or all nature shots. Marks will be given for a good mixture of different types of shots. Some portraits, macros, dog shots, friend shots, food shots etc. All photos should be taken by YOU recently, please do not recycle old photos, do not take photos of art or photos of other photos. Marks: 30 Due Friday June 5 posted in an album on Flickr. **********NOTE: DEADLINE HAS CHANGED

TERM 4 WRITING

Dialogue: I already introduced this assignment in class, here is the info you need to do the assignment properly. Dialogue is a conversation between two people. In writing a story or novel, good dialogue will do one of two things; move plot or develop character. Your task is to create a dialogue between two characters that does this. The minimum lines of dialogue are 8 lines per character.   Marks:10 Due: Friday May 15

Here are 10 tips for how to write dialogue:

• Say the dialogue out loud.
• Cut small talk when writing dialogue.
• Keep your dialogue brief and impactful.
• Give each character a unique voice.
• Add world-appropriate slang.
• Be consistent with the characters' voices.
• Remember who they're speaking to.
• Avoid long dialogue paragraphs.

LINK TO: How to write good dialogue
Tips for writing good dialogue

This is it for now...more to come at a later date.

Writing Enrichment

WRITING LINKS FOR STUDENTS TO CHECK OUT

Check out this link to top places to connect
with other young writers: Great writing sites for teens
Check out TEEN INK, a place to read others poetry and comment on it. Teen Ink

Journal prompts: 119 Journal Prompts
Boredom Busters: Things to Do at Home:  Daring to Live Fully
Check out this same website's archives: Many ideas for Thinking and Writing

MORE to COME........

Photo Inspiration and Enrichment

Tulips: By Ella Black














One of my favourite places to seek help is Digital Photo School. You can read short articles and look at sample photos and they are a well established site with valuable information to offer all levels of photographers. The link to this site is here: DIGITAL PHOTO SCHOOL

Check out photographing food colour and milk:
Creative Abstract Food Colouring & Milk
Tips on how to shoot your pet: Pet Photography
Candlelight Photography: Taking Candlelight Photos
Flower Photography and a good review of Composition: Flower Photography
More tips on shooting Flowers
Still Life Photography: Still Life Photography
Video on a photographer's passion : Photographing Bubbles
Black and White linen how to get better shots:Video on shooting in Black and White

The following are links to some 2 minute videos showing you what creative photographers are up to.
Flickr Moments: World's Best Father
Flickr Moments: photographing Jimmy the Dog
Flickr Moments: The Adventures of Mr. Fly
Flickr Moments: Extreme Sports Photography
Flickr Moments: Teen Photographer uses mirror to create an Illusion
Flickr Moments: Setting the scene at Home
Flickr Moments: Photographer Lands Job at Coca Cola
Check out You Tube for more quick 2 minute Flickr Moments

You might want to subscribe to 2 of my favourite Photographer's You Tube Channels, Von Wong's Video's are spectacular and Peter McKinnon is way cooler than me!:
Canadian Photographer: VON WONG
Peter McKinnon

Here are a few sites for Photography tips and tricks.
Check out: Some cool ideas to try out. Make sure you are being safe...a lot of these photos have been edited, but experimenting is worth a try and can be a lot of fun.
A couple of Hacks to try at Home

Photo: Lisa Chase

Some of last semester's photo students were involved with the Magenta Mentor Photo program and their photos are showcased in this online gallery...check it out.

LINK TO VIRTUAL GALLERY:  Magenta Online Photo Gallery for : It is a Plastic World

All term 3 work needs to be completed by Friday April 10

For all grade 9's. Please complete any and all photo assignments that were assigned and are due for term 3. Post them to Flickr in an album so that I can grade them. If you still need to hand in writing assignments please send to me at: lisa.chase@sd71.bc.ca Make sure they are in a word document not a goole doc. If you can only send as a google doc make sure the document is not locked.

This is what is due for term 3 by the end of the day on Friday April 10
1. Writing Bio: good copy 10 marks

2. Writing Setting: good copy 10 marks

3. Writing: Bucket List 10 marks

4. Photoshop: Head swap 10 marks

5. Photo: Flickr set-up, all photos in albums, Make Ms. Chase a contact 10 marks

6. Photo: 3 Head shots in album on Flickr  5 marks

7. Photo: 2 shots Rule of Thirds in album on Flickr 5 marks

8. Photo: 10 First Shoot( 10 Composition photos from the list I posted. Check the assignment further down on this blog) in an album on Flickr 20 marks
9. 5 macros in album on Flickr 10 marks
Please complete the 5 macro shots and post them to Flickr.( these are close up shots of objects)

THE DIALOGUE ASSIGNMENT IS NOT DUE FOR THIS TERM.
Keep checking this blog, I will be in touch soon regarding what will happen in term 4.
Stay calm, take lots of photos out on your physical distancing walks and stay healthy!
Ms Chase

Check out these Photo Editors:
https://pixlr.com/x/

Other fee photo editing programs
(Gimp is free editing program and very close to Photoshop)

These photos are examples of macros.
CLICK ON THIS LINK TO READ ABOUT SHOOTING MACROS
tips for shooting macros on a phone