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The Photo Detective: What Makes This Image Work?
The Photo Detective: What Makes This Image Work?
Portrait of a Learner Focus: Critical Thinking
Portrait of a Learner Focus: Critical Thinking
WHAT ARE WE LEARNING: Portrait of a Learner
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT: A portrait of a learner aligns with a school system’s vision, ensuring students develop essential skills for success, guiding curriculum, instruction, and culture, to prepare them for future challenges and opportunities.
HOW WILL MY TEACHER KNOW WHAT I LEARNED: Students will use navigate facits of Portrait of a Learner (Adaptability, Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Digital Literacy, and Empathy) to thrive in school, work, and life.
Students demonstrate critical thinking by analyzing visual evidence, defending decisions, and proposing solutions to photography problems.
Critical Thinking
Students analyze information, evaluate choices, solve problems, and make informed decisions.
Photographer Dorothea Lange
Professional photographers constantly make decisions about lighting, composition, camera settings, location, timing, and editing. Strong photographers don’t simply take pictures—they determine why an image works and how to improve it.
Today, we will analyze photographs, identify technical and creative decisions, and use evidence to explain how those decisions affect the final image.
QUESTION???
How do professional photographers make decisions that turn an ordinary photograph into an effective one?
Which Photo Wins?
PHOTO 1
PHOTO 2
I choose Photo 1 because ____________.
or
I choose Photo 2 because ____________.
Why?
The evidence I see in this photograph is ____________________.
Vocabulary to think about...
COMPOSITION
How you place and arrange objects inside your picture frame. It helps guide the eye of the person looking at your photo, tells a clear story, and makes the image look nice.
LIGHTING:
How harsh or gentle is it. Is it effective for the photo?
EXPOSURE
Does it have a correct balance of lights and darks? it is too light or too dark?
DEPTH OF FIELD
Is everything in focus? Would that be distracting?
PERSPECTIVE
What is the sense of depth in realtionship to each subject?
BACKGROUND
Is it distracting?
FOCUS
Is the subject the focal point of the image. Is the image in focus?
COLOR
Does the color please the eye?
STORYTELLING
What is the story behind the image? Is there a story?
Photo Detective Challenge
YOU are a photo detective!
This is naturally the iconic photo – Migrant Mother – taken by the famed photographer Dorothea Lange in 1936.
DETERMINE:
What was the photographer trying to accomplish?
What technical choices were probably made?
Consider:
Aperture
Shutter speed
ISO
Lighting
Camera angle
Storytelling
What is the strongest part of the photograph?
What would you change if you were the photographer?
FIX THE PHOTO!
We've got a problem...you need to solve it!
“You are photographing a student outside. The background is distracting, the student’s face is too dark, and the photograph doesn’t have much visual impact.”
EXPLAIN
Problem → Photography Solution → Expected Result
Example:
Problem: Face is too dark.
Solution: Reposition the student in an area with better lighting.
Result: The subject’s face becomes properly exposed.
ANSWER THIS...
One decision professional photographers make that requires critical thinking is ______ because ______.
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