Learning Target:

Students will creatively stage an adventure-themed photoshoot where they act as the guide, using storytelling and composition to highlight dynamic landscapes. They will enhance their work in Photoshop using photomerge, image blending, and compositing techniques to create seamless and immersive visual narratives.

Learning Intentions:

• I will conceptualize a visual adventure, choosing an activity (e.g., hiking, biking, off-roading) that sets the stage for a landscape-focused story.

• I will capture strong landscape compositions, paying attention to natural elements like light, depth, horizon lines, and atmosphere.

• I will use a subject (such as my teacher) to support the narrative, while keeping the landscape as the main focus of the image.

• I will learn how to photomerge in Photoshop, combining multiple photos to create wide, panoramic landscapes.

• I will blend images together seamlessly, using layer masks, gradients, and exposure matching to unify different visual elements.

• I will develop my ability to tell a story through photography, balancing subject placement, environment, and Photoshop editing techniques.

• I will reflect on how visual storytelling and technical execution work together to create a compelling and believable adventure scene.

Why: 

• 2.1.5 Practice ethical and legal use of social media and online platforms 

• 3.1.3 Incorporate color, line, shape, texture, form, space and value in photograph

• 3.2.3 Incorporate balance, contrast, rhythm, repetition, movement, variety, emphasis, and unity in photographs

• 3.3.1 Identify and apply guidelines for composition (e.g. simplicity, rule of thirds, point of view, focal point, proportion/scale, framing, etc.)

• 3.3.2 Use critical thinking skills to describe, interpret, analyze, and make judgments about composition

• 3.4.1 Communicate a specific idea or narrative through photographic imagery

• 4.1.4 Demonstrate proper handling of a digital camera

• 4.1.5 Navigate menus of digital cameras

• 4.2.2 Compare and contrast the relationship between focal length and shutter speed for handheld versus monopod/tripod based photography

• 5.1.4 Calculate exposure equivalents

• 5.1.8 Explain how the environment can mislead the camera exposure meter 

• 6.2.3 Demonstrate knowledge of how environmental conditions affect the quality of light and its effects on the subject

• 7.2.2 Demonstrate nondestructive editing techniques using digital imaging software

• 8.1.1 Critique work with constructive criticism

How: 

Students will apply these skills with proper camera's that are either supplied by themselves or by the teacher. They will then demonstrate their photoshop skills in class in Adobe Photoshop