Cellphone Photography
16 weeks with Ms. Skyler /$400
Discover the art of photography with just your smartphone! This class focuses on developing your creative eye and telling stories through pictures, no fancy equipment required. Through hands-on activities, you’ll explore composition techniques, lighting tips, and fun challenges that make photography approachable and exciting. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to sharpen your skills, this class is all about expressing yourself, experimenting with visual storytelling, and capturing the world in new ways. Join us and turn your snapshots into stunning keepsakes!
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*Optional if you have one; a Polaroid camera! Ms.Skyler will be bringing hers to share for certain classes.
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Students will need:
Curriculum will be provided by the Instructor.
Students should have a smartphone with a working camera!
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Capture, Create, Share:
Week 1- lets walk through the history of photography during this lesson, you will make a collage and draw a picture that tells us all about you! You will take a photo with the polaroid camera and add you in!
Week 2- Go over photo vocab (to get used to taking pictures we will go on a hunt using our 5 senses to take picture all pictures will included a picture that shows what you can smell, taste, hear, see, touch)
Week 3- Black and white day. Using your camera take pictures of things only using the setting black and white
Week 4- Film Day! Using your disposable camera (provided by the instructor)
Week 5- Landscape challenge/ talking about lighting
Week 6- You get to be the photographer for the day! You get to take head shots of teachers, students and parents
Week 7- Color/ Portrait mode
Week 8- Forced Perspective
Week 9- Macro Photography (talk about flat lay bring in objects for next week)
Week 10- Flat Lay
Week 11- Take a photo to illustrate a bible verse that describes God or his creation (example “the heaven declare His glory- picture of a sunrise
Week 12- He is Risen! Take pictures that tell the story of resurrection
Week 13- Photo Scavenger hunt
Week 14- Photo Bio (take one picture that describes yourself but you can't take a selfie We will also this class pick 10 of your favorite photos to make your photo journal
Week 15- Photo Journal
Week 16-Photo Journal
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