photography and environmental design

Students have been learning about elements of effective photography.  So far, students have been defining and taking photographs of subjects that demonstrate rule of thirds, balancing elements, leading lines, symmetry, patterns, varying viewpoints, backgrounds, depth, framing, cropping, and experimentation.  Students combined their findings into collages and we used a gallery walk to walk around and see what we came up with.

Next, we are going to look at some examples of environmental design.  We will use google image searches and also look at some time-lapse videos of Kyle Steeds murals to get some ideas of what environmental design is.  Students will then come up with an idea of a design of their own, and will eventually Photoshop it into a photograph of a boring area that they took with digital cameras.  Students have been doing a good job with this project so far, and I'm excited to see the work as it gets completed.