Now let's make you a REAL photographer, let's learn LIGHTROOM

Learning Target:

Students will explore urban environments through street photography, capturing candid, architectural, and environmental scenes that reflect life in downtown Boise. They will also be introduced to Adobe Lightroom, learning how to enhance and organize their images using professional editing workflows.

Learning Intentions:

• I will practice observational photography by capturing candid moments, architecture, textures, and human interaction in an urban setting.

• I will develop my composition skills in a real-world environment, paying attention to framing, perspective, and timing.

• I will gain experience working in a public, fast-moving space, learning how to photograph respectfully and creatively in unfamiliar settings.

• I will learn how to import, organize, and edit photos using Adobe Lightroom, including adjustments to exposure, color, sharpness, and cropping.

• I will compare Lightroom and Photoshop, understanding when and why each tool is used in a professional workflow.

• I will reflect on the challenges and opportunities of street photography, considering how environment influences artistic decisions.

• I will curate and present a final series of images that showcase my strongest work from the urban shoot, demonstrating growth in both photography and editing.

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

• 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 Lightroom or Photoshop.