Portrait Art - School Calendar (5) and Photography lessons for elementary students

Digital fun with photos

Oh dear the dreaded flu bug has struck and the doctor has booked me off til next week. I am itching to get back to our awesome artwork but that will simply have to wait now until Monday.

In the meantime I wanted to share a digital option for playing around with photo images. This was something we did for calendar art, 2 years ago. Here is a sample:

 The kiddies (Y4) went out and about the school and took photos of each other during one of our photography units (see links below). They were require to meet certain criteria and this resulted in great variety and creativity. The students uploaded their favourite image to a site called PICNIC which  no longer exists, for modification, finally saving to their desktop. They then overlaid this modified photo on a scan of tessellating patterns that they had created in Maths.

But luckily there are many other free sites for photo editing and this year I had a play with beFunky to achieve the washed-out look for the portraits. Click the image for the link.

Here are my samples with 3 different options.

 

Charcoal option

 

Cartoonizer option

 

Sketcher option

As you can see, they all remove the detail and you can control the extent of that too. For kiddies who find it difficult to ignore the detail and only select the main elements from their photo, this option may help them even more that the photocopier option.
The new image can be saved to your desktop for printing.

In the meantime I have continued with the patterns on my teacher model. Here is a peek:

If you are in need of a photography lesson guide for a Digital Photography Teaching Unit in Upper elementary, like the one I referred to in this post, I have 3 options available now.

First, the guide to using the small n' point shoot cameras that many schools had when I wrote this first guide. I borrowed all the teacher issued cameras in the school for teaching these lessons to my students.

You can find it in my TPT store - One Teacher's Journey - HERE

or on my Website - Help Me Learn - HERE

This was my most popular resource for many years and here is why:

PRAISE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY  with CAMERAS

(already enjoyed by over 700 educators in 2023)

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Great instructions for all ages and abilities"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Excellent resource! I loved the layout and info, and my students loved the challenges. Thank you!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Perfect resource for incorporating the digital end of the medium into my photography unit. Thank you bunches!"

More recently I have also created a similar resource for Digital Photography using devices (like the iPad) This has proven so popular over the last 5 years that I wrote a follow up resource and they are now also available in a BUNDLE to save teachers $$

You can find PHOTOGRAPHY USING IPADS PART 1 in my TPT store - One Teacher's Journey - HERE

or on my Website - Help Me Learn - HERE

You can find PHOTOGRAPHY USING IPADS PART 2 in my TPT store - One Teacher's Journey - HERE

and 

You can find PHOTOGRAPHY USING IPADS PART 1 & 2 BUNDLE in my TPT store - One Teacher's Journey - HERE

Read about what teachers are loving about these resources:

PRAISE FOR iPAD PHOTOGRAPHY PART 1 

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students are begging for more photography time! They are LOVING it.

Simple, well laid out and easy to use. A great resource."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "My students are absolutely loving this! So easy to use and student friendly."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "I used this with my 4th and 5th grade gifted students. We have a 1 hour a week workshop and I decided to do photography. Students used iPads as their camera and we worked through the activities. Thank you!"

PRAISE FOR iPAD PHOTOGRAPHY PART 2

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ "Excellent Resource! The layout is easy to use. The pictures used to teach the concept are clear and effective. My students were excited for the challenge when it was introduced. We really enjoyed 'evaluating' the exemplar photos before we shared our work. Thanks for all of your work putting this together."

Have a great week everybody :)

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Timea