Photography · Week 23 · Darkroom and Digital Editing
Rescuing a Flawed Image
Students revise a flawed image through cropping and tone adjustments and reflect on the value of persistence.
- Students will
- Students revise a flawed photograph through cropping and tone adjustments, compare versions, and explain how each choice strengthened the image.
- SEL skill
- Try another idea after a revision does not work instead of stopping
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-management by persisting through a problem and trying a second and third idea before stopping.
- Content focus
- Rescuing a flawed image
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-management
Self-management means handling your thoughts, feelings, and actions to keep working toward a goal, even when it gets hard. More self-management activities
What you get
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Standards
- VA:Cr3.1.HSI: Visual Arts, Creating, Anchor Standard 3 (Refine and complete artistic work), High School Proficient
- Artistic process: Creating
- Level: High School Proficient
More self-management activities for Photography
- Slow Looking Self-managementStudents spend five quiet minutes finding one subject on campus and connect slow looking to calming the mind.
- Exposure and Patience Self-managementStudents troubleshoot overexposed and underexposed images and practice adjusting settings without giving up.
- Breaking the Rules Self-managementStudents intentionally break a composition rule and reflect on the discomfort and the discoveries of experimenting.
- Darkroom Patience Self-managementDeveloping a print in the darkroom or through a simulated process, students practice staying calm through steps they cannot rush.
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