Teaching Photography #7: Keeping Gear in Its Place
The ongoing challenge in teaching photography to a young person is protecting them from gear culture. Marketing is sophisticated and pervasive. Social…
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Teaching Photography #6: Ongoing: Assignments That Build Vision
After the first six weeks, my niece will have foundation: purpose, seeing, basic technical control. Now the teaching moves from building fundamentals…
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Teaching Photography #5: Introducing Technical Control
My niece has spent four weeks photographing on full automatic. She understands what photography is for, she’s developed her eye, she knows…
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Teaching Photography #4: How Photographs Communicate
Week four combines analysis with continued practice. My niece has been making photographs for three weeks, and she’s developed intuitions about what…
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Teaching Photography #3: Learning to See By Doing
My niece will spend weeks two and three developing her eye through structured assignments, all while keeping the camera on automatic. She’s…
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Teaching Photography #2: What Photography Is For
The first session with my niece will establish what photography is actually for, but not through abstract discussion. She’ll have her camera…
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Teaching Photography #1: Starting From Why
My niece is twelve. She loves taking photos with whatever’s in her pocket, but the 550D I gave her sits mostly untouched…
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