Composition

Leading Lines

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International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Standards

  • 1. Empowered Learner -- Students leverage technology to an active role in choosing, achieving and demonstrating competency in their learning goal, informed by the learning sciences.
  • 1a. Students articulate and set personal learning goals, develop strategies leveraging technology to achieve them and reflect on the learning process itself to improve learning outcomes.
  • 1b. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose and use/troubleshoot current technologies.
  • 1c. Student are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.
  • 2. Digital Citizen -- Students recognize the rights, responsibilities and opportunities of living, learning and working in an interconnected digital world, and they act and model in ways that safe, legal and ethical.
  • 2a. Students engage in positive, safe, legal and ethical behavior when using technology, including social interactions online or when using networked devices.
  • 2b. Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations of copyright and sharing intellectual property.
  • 3. Knowledge Constructor -- Students critically curate a variety of resources using digital tools to construct knowledge, produce creative artifacts and make meaningful learning experiences for themselves and others.
  • Students plan and employ effective research strategies to locate information and other resources for their intellectual or creative pursuits.
  • 4. Innovative Designer -- Students use a variety of technologies within a design process to identify and solve problems by creating new, useful or imaginative solutions.
  • 4a. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving problems.
  • 4b. Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.
  • 4c. Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process.
  • 5. Creative Communicator -- Students communicate clearly and express themselves creatively for a variety of purposes using the platforms, tools, styles, formats and digital media appropriate to their goals.
  • 5a. Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.
  • 5b. Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.
    • *All standards listed above are from the SRR Industrial Technology Standards document based on the ISTE standards.
    This lesson is used on the first day of Photography class after a quick Introduction to the class.

    Some time is taken to download and install Photoshop first. While Photoshop downloads, the teacher talks about composition and how it affects the photograph. Special note is made of the "leading lines" contained within each photo's composition. Leading lines are imaginary lines formed by parts of the photograph. They lead the viewer's eye to a specific part of the photo.

    Some photos are shown where there is obvious (and not so obvious) use of leading lines.

    The teacher may draw on the board to illustrate the leading lines of the photograph.

    Students are given time to find 10 photos with leading lines. This may be done in class with magazines or on-line through photo sites like Flickr or Unsplash.



    Evaluation
    Each student will receive 1 point for each photo based on correct identification of leading lines in the photo.

    Find large images (Click here for instructions) and put all 10 images into a single document and submit it to schoology.
    10 points total

    This lesson is based on Eric Kim's website:
    http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2013/10/16/street-photography-composition-lesson-4-leading-lines/
    Or: Here