1. Framing
• Outdoor
• Using playground equipment
• In and among trees, crosswalks, etc
• Indoor
• Doors frames, stairwells
• Why?
• Digital Photography School
• To give the photo context
• To lead the eye
• To give depth and layers
• Do frames using
• Building
• Furniture
• Others
• Yourself
• Framing activities
• Put it in different corners of the frame
• Create frames within your frame
  
2. Rule of Thirds
• Line subject up on one third line
• Line subjects up on two third lines
• Line subjects up on three or four third lines.
• Put your subject on each of the third lines intersections.
3. Oblique Lines
• Looking for simple lines
• Using lines to highlight subject. At end of lines or at intersection points of lines.
• Use Leading Lines to accomplish this
4. Symmetry
1. Find it
2. Create it.
5. Balance
   
6. Macro
• Outside with flowers, bugs, etc
• With toy people, cars, animals trying to make them look life size and real.
7. Speed
1. Panning
• Following traffic
• Following people running
• Following toy cars zoomed up and down hallway
• Using bouncing or thrown balls.
• Doing spinning selfies as in https://www.diyphotography.net/create-great-panning-photographs-without-moving-your-camera/
• Can also use carts and other things to move the camera in sync with a person or object. Playground equipment.
• Rolling down a hill.
2. Motion Blur (to create idea of speed, movement)
• Longer shutter speeds
• Lower ISO
• Smaller apertures.
• Involves only one thing blurred and the rest in focus.
• Blur must dominate the picture
• Using lights
• Action shots w/ people moving, running
• Shooting cars.
• Shooting toy cars
8. Tableaux (Outdoor ideas page attached at bottom.)
• Set up in small groups of three or four.
• Set up in larger groups
• Great for outdoors.
• Harder indoors.
• Scenes somehow seem to lend themselves to a violent interpretation
  
9. Reflectors
• Ties in w/ portraits
• Ties in w/ Black and White
10. Portraits (Places to take portraits)
    
1. Individual Portraits
• Indoor
• Classroom
• In the NE stair well with the benches
• On the Spiritual office
• Main Floor alcove
• Basement hallway
• Cafe
• SW Stairs
• Using props
• Outdoor
• Play structure
• Front door of the school
• Grassy berm
• Trees
• By the basket ball hoops
• Bike racks
• Baseball diamond
• Fence
• In the middle of the field
2. Group Portraits
• http://www.digital-photography-school.com/how-to-take-great-group-photos
• in small groups
• in bigger groups
• on playground structure
• with special object
• on stairs
• on wheelchair ramp
• on crosswalk
3. Self Portraits
1. Variety of shots
2. Examples
   
3. Digital Photography School
4. From WikiHow
• With a mirror
• Shooting your shadow
• Using a flashlight
5.  Group self portraits
11. Black and White and Backlighting
• Outdoor places
  
• Especially good on grey, overcast days.
• Photography Office examples
• Silhouette Photography. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/17/captivating-examples-of-silhouette-photography/
• Is great in Black and White
• Works with Reflectors
   
12. Architectural Photography
• Over and Under
• Work on creativity

13. Scenery/Landscape Photography

•  Empty hallways

• Use of space
• Use of line to lead the eye
• Maximum depth of field
• Need a focal point
• Interesting foregrounds
• Sky can make the photo
• Horizon
• Is it straight?
• Is it on a third line?
• Examples: http://photographya.info/wonderful-scenery-photography/

14. Refraction/Reflection

    • Ideas to hand out
    • Using water
    • in a glass
    • in an aquarium
    • in a sink
    • Using bubbles
    • Using mirrors
    • Using prisms
    • Reflections in a display/trophy case, Christmas ornaments, DVDs/CDs, window, mirror, marble, eyeball, picture frame, rear view mirror.
    • Reflect on...
      
       
15. Winter/Snow Photography http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/11/23/45-winter-wonderland-photos/
• Ideas
16. Optical Illusions 
• http://www.delicious.com/mrpuffin/opticalillusions
• Ideas
• More ideas
17. Negative Space
• Ways to do it
18. Backyard bird photography http://www.digital-photography-school.com/backyard-bird-photography-tips
• Great in the spring
• Great in the early morning
19. Set up a DIY ‘Photo Booth http://www.digital-photography-school.com/16-christmas-photography-tips
• Interesting around Christmas
20. Looking for shapes
• circle
• semi-circle/dome
• oval
• square
• rectangle
• triangle
• trapezoid
• parallelogram
• pentagon
• octagon
• star
• crescent
• cross

21. Pictures on a theme - five pictures based around the same idea

• Circles
• Group Picture
• Macro
• Refraction
• Motion Blur
• Free Choice
• On the Ground
• Group Picture
• Oblique Lines
• Individual Shot
• Tableau
• Free Choice

Looking Up

Friendship

The color BLUE

• Panning
• Framing
• Limited depth of field
• Black and White
• Free Choice

• Photosynthesis
• Organism
• Brilliance
• Something ordinary shot in an interesting way
• Vivid colors
• Yellow
• Door, or through a door
• Action
• Parallel lines
• Polka dots
• Laughter