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.
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Mr. Taylor from Savannah GA is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.
My students need 50 mm 1.8 prime lenses to learn how to work within creative limitations.
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.
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.
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
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