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How to Use Photography to Teach Your Children Maths, English, Physics and More!

14 Apr

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How to Use Photography to Teach Your Children Maths, English, Physics and More!

It is certainly a weird time right now. We are all suddenly expected to become teachers due to the current lockdowns. While we all have different skills, we are all full of knowledge about photography. You may be wondering, how you can use photography to teach your children during this difficult time.

It’s actually easier than you think! Moreover, it can give your children a passion for learning during this difficult time. 

A small boy photographing with the camera up to his eye. Using photography to teach your children can cover a multitude of subjects.
Photography is a powerful teaching tool that can be linked to many subjects.

Where to start?

I first want to give you some more general points about homeschooling during these times.

In a classroom, your child will be one of many. They do not have a teacher over their shoulder the whole lesson, so try not to hover. Set them a task and let them explore.

It’s hard to do as we always want to see our children happy, but sometimes you just need to let them make mistakes.

When using photography to teach your children, it can be easy to take the camera and do it for them. However, this does two things:

  1. It means they don’t learn anything for themselves
  2. It can make them feel stupid or incapable. 

Remember when you first started with photography. I know I made several mistakes, as I am sure you did. When I finally figured out my mistake and got the result I wanted, I felt a great sense of achievement.

The only way for your child to feel this same sense of achievement is to let your child fail and figure things out for themselves. Failing is one of the best tools for learning. It gives them a great sense of satisfaction when they succeed.

So let’s take a look at some of the key subjects and how you can use photography to teach your children.

Maths

Maths is usually the most dreaded of all subjects. The best way to use photography to teach your children maths is by using the exposure triangle.

The exposure triangle uses equations, which is a key skill in maths. Unsure of using manual exposure yourself? Why not learn along with your child. This demonstrates to them that learning is a lifelong skill.

Start by explaining that every time you double your shutter speed, it equals one stop of light. Conversely, every time you double your ISO it equals one stop of light. So, if you double one, you need to double the other. If you halve one, you need to halve the other.

To start, take a correctly exposed photo. Then challenge your child to alter the shutter speed and ISO but to keep the correct exposure. 

To demonstrate this, take a photo at ISO 400 and make a note of the shutter speed. You can then explain that when you halve your ISO you also have to halve your shutter speed. You can make this harder by giving them a high ISO (say 1600) and ask them to keep the exposure with an ISO of 100.

You can also give these questions on paper, then take them out into the real world.

Example Question.

Jack takes a photograph. His camera gives him the correct exposure at ISO 400 and a shutter speed of 1/200th of a second. If Jack wants to change his shutter speed to 1/100th second, what ISO value does he need?

You can then make things more complex by adding aperture. This is a great way to show how equations work in a practical environment.

Using exposure is a great way to use photography to teach your children.
Two images, same exposure, different ISO. Halving the ISO also means halving the shutter speed. It’s all just balancing the equation.

Science/physics

For this, you will need a flash for your camera to demonstrate.

There is an inverse square law and how it affects photography. The inverse square law states:

The intensity of an effect such as illumination or gravitational force changes in inverse proportion to the square of the distance from the source.

When you double the distance between a light source and a subject, the amount of light falls off by 3/4. This also means that the greater the distance between the light and the subject, the less harsh the fall off of light across it.

The most fun way to demonstrate this is to show what happens when you change the distance between a flash and subject, and the impact on the light fall off.

Start by placing the flash close to the subject (say 30cm) then move the flash about 1.5 meters from the background.

When the flash is close, any background will be almost black, but when further away, the exposure on the background and the subject will be almost identical.

For more science-based work, give your child a shiny or reflective object to light. Light travels in a straight line, so getting them to change the position of the light or object means reflections can be minimized or enhanced.

A photography of a mannequin lit by a single flash. This demonstrates the inverse square law as the background is black.
Teach the inverse square law by changing the flash-to-subject distance to show how light falls off over distance.

History

This can be done in a variety of ways. They can research a specific photographer from history or research a time period (e.g., the 60s) through photography. Get them to look for similarities in the works and create a presentation or written report on this. Try using our Lessons From the Masters Series for this.

They should also be encouraged to create history by recording their experiences in this time. The possibilities here are endless, including creating a Vlog (you don’t need to upload it to YouTube if you don’t want to), creating a photo story, writing a journal, etc. 

We are living through a major historical event, get your children to record it. 

Design and technology

Get your children to create a backdrop for a photoshoot. Get them to choose a toy or give them a household object such as hand soap and create a backdrop for this.

You can keep the brief as open or closed as possible. You could get them to build something only using a set of equipment given to them. Or let them create something from whatever they can find. If you have access to a tool shed, you can get creative with scrap wood, etc. This can then be used for the next lesson.

Making a backdrop will involve physics and maths skills (forces and measurements respectively).

See more DIY projects here.

Graphic products and graphic design

Use the backdrop your child has built to create an image that will become an advertising campaign for a project.

You can teach them how to edit a photo. From here, you can then get them to use the image in a poster to promote the product they have photographed. Not only does this involve graphic skills, you can involve English skills by encouraging them come up with the slogan and blurb for the product.

This also has a nice crossover into ICT in terms of using the software for designing and editing the photographs.  

A poster of an American Football with the Text DPS Sports Equip, Stay Fit, Feel Good.
Taking Images and making them into a poster is great for developing graphics & ICT skills

English

Although not strictly photography, a great way to involve English in using photography to teach your children is to make a film. This means writing a script, which teaches them about formatting work. It also gets them to think creatively and produce an original piece of writing.

You can extend this to include art by getting them to storyboard the project. Then push it into design and technology by creating a set.

If you have access to lights, you can even get them to light the scene and look at how placing the light in different positions creates a different mood. This can then lead to talking about low-key lighting and high-key lighting. This also involves physics in terms of light direction and the inverse square law. 

A short film script excerpt on a white background
The next Hollywood BlockBuster has to start somewhere.

Art

The most obvious way of doing this is getting your children to take photographs, but it is easy for this to lack structure. To make sure this is more learning-based, you can give them a brief.

Give them a household object and get them to photograph it in an unusual or abstract way. If you want to make this more game-based, get them to take photographs of 5 household objects of their choosing and then present them to you and see if you can guess what they are.  

For a more traditional photographic approach, you can give your child a theme to photograph. You can use our weekly challenges to give them the theme if you are stuck for ideas.

When complete, sit down and critique the images together. You can use this to explain things such as composition. 

If you want to go more into theory, you can teach them about the rule of thirds. Get them to look at photographs and see if they can see this within them.

The easiest way is to use a grid in something like PowerPoint that you can overlay onto different images. They can then use this to identify patterns in images they like or that you give them to study. You can also use this for things such as leading lines, foreground interest and so on. 

Art fits in perfectly for photography, but to make sure it aids learning, all you need to add is a little structure. 

An abstract representation of blinds shot on an iPhone
Shot on an iPhone, this is an abstract representation of Venetian Blinds. Did you guess what it was?

Equipment

Obviously, you can give your kids your camera, but if you don’t feel comfortable with this, for most of these lessons, you can use a camera phone or the camera on a tablet. Many of the images in this article are iPhone images.

The lighting you use also doesn’t need to be some beautiful color-balanced LED panels. An angel-poise lamp works brilliantly, or even a simple torch will do the job.

For the sections on the exposure triangle, you will need access to a camera with full manual controls. In fact, you can possibly use a manual camera phone app in a pinch.

In terms of software, there is GIMP, which is free for photo editing. Also, Affinity Software is doing a 90-day free trial on all their software during this time.

Over to you

Hopefully, I have given you a few ideas on how you can use photography to teach your children during this difficult time. It gives some activities to try and maybe work that they find more interesting than sitting at a desk writing away.

Remember, homeschooling is very different from being taught in a classroom. There is no expectation of getting it perfect. You are doing your best in a bad situation, and that is all anyone can ask. The same applies to your children; they are finding homeschooling every bit as weird as you are.

Stay safe. 

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Tips to speak english fluently pdf

28 Aug

When I moved to Seattle from the tribal areas of northwest Pakistan to study journalism through the State Department’s Northwest Community College Initiative — In a nutshell, I won’tips to speak english fluently pdf be able to do as you wish. I want to speak like americans; I am Nigerian and love to speak American […]
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Phonetikana: Embedding English into Japanese Characters

01 Nov

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Nothing gets lost in translation with these embedded English pronunciations, tied directly into the Japanese typographic style Katakana. While the letterforms of Katakana create an effectively phonetic alphabet, its characters are still difficult for some foreigners to read, at least until now.

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Like many design solutions, this one looks easy in retrospect: simply tuck an English-legible phonetic articulation guide using a capped alphabet inside the Japanese characters. The result: Phonetikana, a potentially very powerful tool for communication, teaching and learning, or even signage in places like international airports or multinational conventions.

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From the creators: “Multiple trips to Japan and constant frustration at being unable to read the language has sparked off an unusual typographic project at johnson banks. Earlier in the year we started seeing if we could combine the English language and Japanese script in some way.”

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The firm went a step further as well, embedding words and phrases inside symbols to create a children-legible introductory guide to Japanese, reinforcing connections between each sound and symbol set. Meanwhile, the hybrid typography remains a work in progress, but definitely on the right linguistic track.

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How To Achieve Nice Bokeh [In Plain English]

03 Feb

By Annie Tao

Want to take portraits that have nice bokeh?  First, what is it?

BOKEH = noun.  a Japanese term for the subjective aesthetic quality of out-of-focus areas of a photographic image.

Below is a photo I took just the other day.  It is an example of an image with nice bokeh and how to use it effectively.

Annie Tao Photography bokeh Ex1

By blurring out the background, the entire image looks visually pleasing. You can’t even see she is standing on a sidewalk next to a parking lot!

HOW TO ACHIEVE NICE BOKEH (in plain English!)

1.  Use the right lens.

All lenses can create some kind of bokeh, but the REALLY nice, drool-worthy bokeh is from prime lenses with large apertures, like f/1.4 and f/1.8.

2.  Select a large aperture.

The larger the aperture (the smaller the aperture number) = a narrower depth of field and more bokeh!  Usually f/2.8, 1.8 and 1.4 create the best results.

3.  Get close to your subject.

4.  Focus on what you want to have sharp.

I know, I know…. duh.  But there may be someone out there who isn’t sure!  

5.  Put your subject far from the background you want blurred out.

In the image above, there is beautiful green bokeh because there were bushes on the far side of the parking lot.  I took the shot from a lower angle (shooting upwards) to intentionally miss the cars in the parking lot, which were directly behind her. 

The result is a deliciously smooth wash of color in the background, which made it look more like the little girl was standing in a meadow than a parking lot.

MORE EXAMPLES OF BOKEH

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Sometimes I create bokeh in the FOREGROUND because it tells a different story…

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And sometimes I don’t want any bokeh at all. I want to see all the details, like the textures of these walls, so I place my subjects close to the background and have my camera set at a smaller aperture.

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Annie Tao is a lifestyle, commercial and event photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area. You can get more tips or inspiration at www.annietaophotography.com and stay connected with Annie at https://www.facebook.com/annietaophotography

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Photoshop tutorial – Fracture photo effect – splatter brushes (english subtitle)

19 Dec

www.flashstudioimmagine.com 220 tutorial inediti www.youtube.com Visita il mio canale youtube labottegadellafotografia.blogspot.it IL mio blog Download brushes:myphotoshopbrushes.com You can perform this process using splatter brushes. In this tutorial I explain step by step how to dissolve a photo and spread it like splashes of paint. Powered by Luciano Boschetti, photographer.
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Web Design | Photoshop tutorial – Landscape with sunset effect – English subtitles

06 Nov

Check out this informative tutorial : labottegadellafotografia.noiblogger.com In this tutorial I explain how to add a sunset in a photo. Produced by Luciano Boschetti, photographer 2011 trustseo.com Web Designs in Miami Thanks to the premire uploader of this video was ellebi62
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Jelly Jamm in english – Look at Me, Look at Me

02 Nov

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Jelly Jamm in English – Wild Nature

31 Oct

Share on Facebook: on.fb.me Join us on Facebook: fb.me Goomo and Rita enjoy their day in the outdoors when they suddenly discover a Dodo egg. The children and the small egg will go on an action-packed adventure. Will the egg survive after so much hustle and bustle? More Jelly Jamm episodes in english: www.youtube.com Discover more Jelly Jamm Music! www.youtube.com Watch the Official Jelly Jamm videoclips! www.youtube.com Subscribe to our YouTube channel to keep up with the latest videos: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com Visit our official Website www.jellyjamm.com Follow us on twitter! http
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Sri Krishna in English – 01 Birth of Krishna – Animated / Cartoon Stories of Lord Krishna

30 Oct

For Online Purchase: www.abiramiaudio.com MAGIC BOX ANIMATION PROUDLY PRESENTS Mythological Stories Sri Krishna The universal Friend Krishna is regarded as the eight incarnation of Lord Vishnu and is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.He was born of Vasudeva and Devaki while they were in prison in Mathura. They were imprisoned because their eighth son(Krishna) was destined to kill king Kamsa. Kamsa sent many demons to kill Krishna but all in vain. Krishna spent most of his Childhood, killing demon after demon, humorously re-routing their plans to destroy him and they all end up sealing their own doom. And finally, Krishna killed the evil king Kamsa to protect His devotees. It is our endeavour to bring forth these stories in the form of an interesting animated DVD for your children. Let your children see, enjoy, learn and be blessed by Lord Krishna. 1. Birth of Krishna 2. Krishna and His Cosmic Form 3. Krishna and Twin Trees 4. Krishna and Fruit Seller 5. Krishna and Kaliya Naag 6. Krishna and Pot of Butter 7. Krishna and Mount Govardhana GIVE YOUR KIDS A BEST START IN LIFE THANKS FOR WATCHING AND FOR ONLINE PURCHASE VISIT US AT www.abiramiaudio.com

 
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Edewcate english rhymes – Puff the magic dragon nursery rhyme

27 Oct

A classic kids song about a dragon and a kid. Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee, Little Jackie paper loved that rascal puff, And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. oh Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee. Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail Jackie kept a lookout perched on puffs gigantic tail, Noble kings and princes would bow whenever they came, Pirate ships would lower their flag when puff roared out his name. oh! Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee. A dragon lives forever but not so little boys Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys. One grey night it happened, Jackie paper came no more And puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar. His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain, Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane. Without his life-long friend, puff could not be brave, So puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave. oh! Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called Honah Lee, Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea And frolicked in the
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