Using Digital Photography in Your Program

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

2. 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 yourphotography workshops at CYFAR in the past two years True False But enough about me… Tell me about yourself, your work, and your skill level

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 cahe.nmsu.edu/4h/photography

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 Turn camera on

23. Taking photos Shoot photos

24. Viewing photos Play or view photos

25. Viewing photos Move to next photo

26. Zoom Wide/Telephoto

27. Flash Toggle flash

28. Flash options Flash on Flash off Red eye

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 Menu button

34. Moving through Settings Navigation button

35. Settings - file size (pixels) Image Size/Resolution

36. Settings - quality, compression Image Quality/Compression

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

38. Deleting on the camera Deleting images off camera Delete button

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…