We just concluded today's in-house Photography Merit Badge Workshop. We had 11 Boy Scouts in attendance. Thank you to Mr. Latimer and Mr. Roldan for assistance.
Although we talked about camera equipment, we see the camera simply as a tool for our creative efforts. The camera--whether it costs $180 or $5000--lets us control shutter speed and aperture size. But the real focus (pun intended) was being creative & purposeful with types of light, motion, depth of field, color temperature, angle of view, rule of thirds, and other concepts. The Scouts' projects were an impressive collection of photographs. Their completed worksheets documented a great amount of pre-work.
Finally, we collaborated together as a team of photographers, lighting specialist, artistic directors, background grips, key grips, and talent to showcase what we learned. Even when we experienced an unforeseen technical glitch with the lighting equipment, we remained calm and leveraged our training to adjust & execute the shot. Our resulting image, after the digital darkroom, is above.
Congratulations to all of our class graduates!
