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Goal
- Make a slide show to demonstrate understanding of 6 photographic compositional rules.
Standards
- 6.6 Apply photographic elements of composition
- 6.7 Download files from storage to a computer
- 6.8 Select appropriate resolution for application
Product
- Slideshow published to Slideshare.net and embedded into your blog
Examples
Steps
- Create one slide per rule to share your understanding of 6 photographic compositional rules
- Find samples of each rule via the search.creativecommons.org search engine
- Save your images with the date, source, author and title in the name of the file
- EXAMPLE: 091103FlickrEnricoMartinezRuleof3rds.jpg
- Take an example photo of each rule with a simple camera
- Save images to a computer
- Export your images from Flickr & iPhoto no larger than 1000 pixels on the longest side
- Fill the complete slide frame with each picture (for both Flickr and your images)
- Place the title of the rule in the picture
- Choose a font color that has maximum contrast with the background
- Createa citation slide and cite the images with MLA format
- Watch the Citation Video Tutorial
- Upload slide show to Slideshare.net
- Watch How to Upload to Slideshare.net
- Set Your Profile Settings to Safe, if you haven’t already
Tools
- Flickr.com
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Google Drive – Presentation
- SlideShare.net
Resources
- Search.creativecommons.org
- Citation Video Tutorial with example PowerPoint Work Cited slide!
- Slideshare.net
- How to Upload to Slideshare.net – Video Tutorial
Feedback Form
- Composition Rules (pdf)