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Using Digital Photography in Your Program

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Using Digital Photography in Your Program

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    1. Using Digital Photography in Your Program Barbara Chamberlin, bchamber@nmsu.edu

    2. But enough about me… With a regular camera, I feel: Incompetent Awkward Comfortable Like an expert With a digital camera, I feel: Incompetent Awkward Comfortable Like an expert Regarding photography in my programming I have no idea how to use it I have some idea but haven’t used it much I use photography regularly in my work, but not digital photos I’m starting to use digital photos and need more good ideas I work mostly with: Adults Kids Both I attended one of your photography workshops at CYFAR in the past two years True False

    3. Our Plan for theNext 90 Minutes Why use photography? Cool stuff that makes it easy Taking better photos Using any Camera Question and Answer

    4. Why Use Photography? How can digital images be used… With YOU holding the camera? Outreach, publicity, evangelization, message delivery With THEM holding the camera? See more clearly what is around them Visual learning

    5. You hold the camera Photos for newsletters Send photos home demonstrating best practices Recruiting more participants Promotion: t-shirts, banners, mugs, bags Evangelize behavior…

    6. They hold the camera Become a photographer Take a portrait of the oldest person you know, a birthday celebration, the oldest person in your community, something you wish you had in your family… Content learning: math, art, history, english

    7. Resource for Teaching Digital 4-H Photography Project 6 learning experiences PowerPoint presentations (with notes) Handouts

    8. Resource for Teaching Good book for teaching content Teaching with Digital Images: Acquire, Analyze, Create, Communicate. Editors: Bull and Bell. ISBN: 1564842193

    9. Before You Brainstorm… Remember that photos can Be printed to Fabric Magnets Sticker paper Large sizes E-Mailed Be put into a slideshow Obtained from web (Google search) Be of very poor quality

    10. Brainstorming Groups of 4 people to chat… Make a list of creative, fresh ideas using photography… With you holding the camera With them holding the camera We’ll pull you back in 20 minutes

    11. Sharing… Your best ideas…

    12. HOW do we do it? Quick tips for better photos Using any digital camera, and teaching others to

    13. Taking better photos

    14. Move in close

    15. Use flash outside

    16. Take lots of photos

    17. Try interesting poses

    18. Try interesting poses

    19. Watch your backgrounds

    20. Watch your lines

    21. Make meaningful memories

    22. Turning the camera on

    23. Taking photos

    24. Viewing photos

    25. Viewing photos

    26. Zoom

    27. Flash

    28. Flash options

    29. Focus

    30. Scavenger Hunt We’re not going to take it… but if we were… http://cahe.nmsu.edu/4h/photography/handouts.html Try it on your own…

    31. How many images on camera? Size of storage card(8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc)

    32. How many images on camera? Size of storage card(8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc) File Size (number of pixels in the picture) 640x480 2260x1614 Compression or Quality

    33. Changing Settings/Menu

    34. Moving through Settings

    35. Settings - file size (pixels)

    36. Settings - quality, compression

    37. Extra stuff you’ll want Extra battery Card reader Additional card (with more space)

    38. Deleting images off camera Deleting on the camera

    39. Getting images off camera Use cable and software Use card reader Use iPhoto, Picasa

    40. Fixing and Organizing Photos Your photos are perfect… but what about those that other people take? How do you organize and group your photos so they are useful?

    41. Album Software(iPhoto, Adobe Photoshop Album, Picasa) Get photos: from camera and computer Organize photos: tagging/titles/keywords albums/folder Fix photos (light) Make neat stuff

    42. Album Software Many types Adobe Photoshop Album ($49.00) and free download http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshopalbum/ Google Picasa (Free) http://picasa.google.com/) Apple iPhoto (part of $79 iLife Suite)

    43. Great handouts online CYFAR Conference Handouts Getting Photos into Album Exporting from Album Creating a Slideshow in Album Taking Better Photos Using Picasa http://www.cyfernet.org/cyfar06/complabs.html

    44. What to do with them once you’ve got ‘em Printing High-speed access: Online Printer Photo development house (take card) Web or presentation Resize before using (72-100 ppi) Save in proper format

    45. What to do with them once you’ve got ‘em Archive Back up photos to CD Back up photos to DVD Post photos to online service and order CD

    46. What’s left? We’ll email you list of ideas and links Stay put if you have questions for me…

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