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Mr. Taylor from Savannah GA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Creative Limitation

My students need 50 mm 1.8 prime lenses to learn how to work within creative limitations.

  • $711 goal

This project expired on September 9, 2017.

This project expired on September 9, 2017.

Celebrate Black Teachers and Students

This project is part of the Black History Month celebration because it supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of the students are Black.

My Students

The students I teach attend a dedicated visual and performing arts high school in Georgia where they are required to select a major and continue on that path, whether it is in Visual Arts, Communication Arts, Dance, Theater, or Music, for the duration of their high school career.

Along with the challenging arts classes, students are taking advanced academic coursework, as well as staying involved in a number of extracurricular activities.

These students are highly motivated and extremely talented, and strive to be the best that they can be.

My Project

After 7 years of teaching traditional darkroom photography, this school year I allowed my upper level photography students to shoot solely in a digital format. The result of this step was that I began to receive work that was a huge step above the work I have received in the past as well as my students have won more awards for their work.

Due to the success of this past school year I am changing my curriculum to incorporate more digital photography.

I need to come up with a number of new assignments to capture the creativity of this new format. On such assignment will be Creative Limitation. Student will have to shoot a series of photos on a single subject matter using only a 50mm prime lens. The prime lens has a fixed focal length so students cannot zoom in or out. They physically have to walk closer or farther away from their subject to frame their shot. The lenses also have a wide. 1.8 aperture so a very shallow depth of field cam be emphasis

Mr. Taylor
Grades 9-12
  • Savannah Arts Academy
  • Savannah, GA
  • More than a third of students from low‑income households

    This project will reach 60 students.

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
YONGNUO YN EF 50mm f/1.8 AF Lens YN50 Aperture Auto Focus for Nikon Cameras as AF-S 50mm 1.8G With EACHSHOT Cleaning Cloth • Amazon Business $79.50 4 $318.00
YONGNUO YN50mm F1.8 Lens Large Aperture Auto Focus Lens For Canon EF Mount EOS Camera • Amazon Business $55.99 2 $111.98
Yongnuo EF YN 50mm F/1.8 1:1.8 Standard Prime Lens for Canon Rebel Digital Camera • Amazon Business $49.88 2 $99.76

Materials cost

$529.74

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$36.55

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.95

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$604.24

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$106.63

Total project goal

$710.87

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