Information, Media and Telecommunications - PHOTOGRAPHER

Activity: How to create a "Pin Hole Camera"

Primary Middle  Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and Creative Thinking

1. Go to the "How to make a Pin Hole Camera" web site. Follow the instructions. You can take some marvellous photos using this technique.

2. Another web site to visit is the Oatmeal (porridge) Box Pin Hole Camera.

Experiment with your new Pin Hole Camera!!!! Have fun!

Other Resources:

CSIRO - Make your own Pin Hole Camera

Kodak: How to Make and Use a Pinhole Camera

Pringles Pinhole

ehow: Make a Pinhole Camera 

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking
Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Cooperative Learning Activity

1. In groups of 4 - 5 students, you are to find or photograph the following items as a group: (Source: Alisha Ashworth )

1. a group photo
2. a very relaxing place
3. the biggest tree
4. the funniest thing you can find
5. something that begins with the letter "Z"
6. Spell a word with at least 3 letters
7. Do exactly what the sign says (any sign can work)
8. capture your reflections or shadows in an unexpected place
9. an unusual perspective - could be everyone's shoes, or just the top of their heads
10. make yourselves appear really small
11. catalog pose
12. can you find us?
13. any kind of traffic sign
14. the inside of something
15. a cloud that looks like an animal
16. the whole team/group needs to bunch up together and make a funny face
17. someone in your team/group shaking hands
18. someone in your team/group getting a drink from a water fountain
19. an item that costs 99 cents
20. any sport being played
21. entire team/group reading books
22. entire team/group jumping (everyone must be in mid-air for the picture to count)

2. As a group, collate the collection of photographs digitally. Label them 1 - 22.

3. Present your group collection to the rest of the class!

An Awareness Poster: Using Qwik (submitted by Ella Barry, ACU Education Student)

Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and Creative Thinking

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding

1. Individually, take a powerful photograph.

Discuss with a partner. Re-take the photograph if you need to.

2. Download the app Qwik [FREE]

3. Create an awareness poster about your photo.

Did You Know? An awareness poster is created to promote education and outreach - here is one chosen by Oxfam: Real Australians Say Welcome   In 2015 artist Peter Drew embarked on a three-month trip around Australia pasting up 1000 brown paper posters he designed and printed with the large black words “Real Australians Say Welcome”. The poster started as a way to encourage Australians to rethink their views on asylum seekers and immigrants. The campaign was successfully crowdfunded on Pozible and the artist documented his journey via social media. The campaign proved extremely successful. Many Australians documented the posters online as they discovered them on the streets of local towns and large cities and hundreds of messages of support flooded in to Peter Drew. Hundreds of other designers, artists, and celebrities, inspired by Drew’s work, have created their own versions of “Real Australians say welcome”. These have been shared on Instagram and via the website “The Design Files”. “ “I love the ”Real Australians Say Welcome” campaign as it always seems to appear in places you least expect it, as a reminder of what true Australian values are and should be: inclusion, belonging and celebration of diversity. It’s a hopeful message and one that, in silence, speaks louder than the image of Australia that politicians and the media would have us believe.” — Tamara Bézu, Volunteer Engagement Coordinator, Oxfam Australia

4. Identify the theme of your image (hope, resilience, grief, loss, ownership, loyalty etc.).

5. Upload this image to a class Instagram account with a compelling caption.

Food Stylist: Creating a "Faux" Dinner Shoot with an Asian theme!

 Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum Cross Curriculum Priorities: Asian Priority

Cooperative Learning Activity

1. In groups of 4 - 5 students, you are to view the following video about the tricks and tips of creating a lookalike meal! But this time, it is to look like an Asian dinner

Food Styling: Make Prop Food Look Great on Camera [USA]
https://youtu.be/IjvS4v2JVWo

2. Decide on the Asian recipe you are going to recreate. Discuss together and with your teacher. Work out what ingredients will need to be copied or "faux" during the taping. Eg. how will you show a steaming meal?

3. Gather the ingredients and step by step start video taping. Roles:

• Script Writer
• Presenter(s)
• Videotaper
• Food Stylists - one might be a photographer too!

4. Post your video and photographs for your teacher to assess.

5.

Reflection. How did the shoot go? Is this a job you might consider? 

Story Telling: What is it like to be an Equine Photographer?

Middle  Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

1. You are going to immense yourself in the life of an Equine Photographer by investigating the following websites: 

Horse Illustrated	Horse Rookie: Horse Photography Tips
Australian Photography: The Art of Equine

2. Create a timeline for an equine shoot for the day. Divide your day up into half hour segments.

3. Look at the following photograph of an Equine Photographer from Amber Skye Photography. Analyse the photo by answering the questions [and adding any other ideas or thoughts]:

• Where is the shot?
• Who is in the shot?
• What is special about these horses and riders?
• Why is it being shot?
• The feelings of the photographer
• The thoughts of the photographer
• The physical sensations of the photographer

4. Using your timeline [you can make adjustments] and the Equine Photograph above from Amber Skye Photography, create a story about the shoot that day.

The story is to be no longer than 1000 words.

Websites, Games & Apps

BeFunky - photo editing and photo effects Middle  Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
Animasher - make animations, or animated gifs Middle  Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
Blabberize Middle  Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
Enquiring Minds - Bridges to Higher Education Project Middle Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability
Photo Lab Daily (Free Mobile App) Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability Price: FREE Developer: Sudobility
A snapshot of High Speed Photography - and how to do it! Secondary Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy