Introduction to Digital Photography Class

Summer 2020

Summer school is very different than the regular school year. There are an assortment of students from Raritan Valley C.C. and other colleges taking advantage of a chance to continue learning in between sleeping, playing and swimming. The students usually come in wearing shorts and sandals and are a bit more relaxed because it is Summer!

This year is slightly different because we are all on Zoom and have never met each other in person. I asked the students to send me photo so I could have a face to learn their name. During the Zoom class some students allow me to see them while others choose to use the black background with their name. Yesterday, a student asked me if he could eat during class and I said, "of course".

The greatest thing about the "NEW" way of teaching is that I think the students are even more interested.

Digital Photography is not that difficult to teach on line since we mostly use the computer to edit our photographs. The main activity the students miss other than the interaction with each other is printing.

Printing your photographs is very important because it is encouraging to see your photographs live.

Sadly, unless the students have a printer at home, they can not print during class. I am still trying to figure out how to get their work printed.

We have 8 assignments plus a "Picture of the Week". The students and I choose one or two topics and everyone does 1 photo in that subject (some students do more than 1).

Here are some of the final photographs. The first P.O.T.W. was Blue.