If you're in a moderately temperate place you can take them outside and ask them to choose a place to stand and then take photographs of everything they can see from straight up to straight down while they rotate around the spot they've chosen. Suggest the mobile ones consider lying down, kneeling, squatting, zooming in, zooming out, photographing the others etc. Suggest the immobile ones work within their limitations. Then, after they've spent 30 minutes or so, teach them about wide, normal and close shots, download all their shots and run them through a slideshow program and have them talk about what they thought they were doing, have the class talk about whether they were successful, whether the images were worth printing, whether they could be made more interesting and how (contrast, saturation, etc.) Then have them choose the ones for printing and run out to the drug store and bring back the prints and have them compare them with the projected files and see how printing can change their work. _________________ Emily L. Ferguson mailto:elf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 508-563-6822 New England landscapes, wooden boats and races http://www.landsedgephoto.com
