Teaching them young that there’s more than cellphones
Nov 26, 2022 10:14:05 #
A recent day when my son, who teaches photography, is teaching three of our grandchildren to shoot manual. They haven’t memorized the f stops yet, but the memorization mantra for the day was “smaller number, bigger opening”. He set all their shutters on 1/125 and auto ISO and had them shoot using different apertures. Some of the images were actually pretty decent. The next lesson is about shutter speed.
Nov 26, 2022 10:21:09 #
Nov 26, 2022 10:25:33 #
DougS
Loc: Central Arkansas
Excellent start! They look like they are enjoying the privilege of shooting a 'grownup' camera!
Nov 26, 2022 10:27:15 #
Nov 26, 2022 10:54:45 #
Nov 26, 2022 11:37:34 #
I hope they stick with it. By the time they are my age, I bet cameras will be something entirely unrecognizable to us old folks. Oh, well, I'll be gone by then.
Nov 26, 2022 11:37:44 #
Nov 26, 2022 11:45:03 #
TriX wrote:
A recent day when my son, who teaches photography, is teaching three of our grandchildren to shoot manual. They haven’t memorized the f stops yet, but the memorization mantra for the day was “smaller number, bigger opening”. He set all their shutters on 1/125 and auto ISO and had them shoot using different apertures. Some of the images were actually pretty decent. The next lesson is about shutter speed.
Way to go, teach them young and get them off the cell's!! Nice shot, believe the girl on left has possibilities.
Nov 26, 2022 13:16:54 #
Nov 26, 2022 13:38:28 #
TriX wrote:
A recent day when my son, who teaches photography, is teaching three of our grandchildren to shoot manual. They haven’t memorized the f stops yet, but the memorization mantra for the day was “smaller number, bigger opening”. He set all their shutters on 1/125 and auto ISO and had them shoot using different apertures. Some of the images were actually pretty decent. The next lesson is about shutter speed.
Excellent, moving them beyond "snap shots".A few years back I gave my wife and our special needs son some basic lessons on composition, exposure etc. when I discovered she just kept her cameras on auto and snapped away. It just had not occurred to me, she was doing that since her father had some fairly nice film cameras she had inherited and was using. So I went into my old files and pulled out the first month's lessons from the year I taught basic photography at the high school level back in the 1970s. After a couple of lessons, we went to a park with water features and lots of ducks, geese, cranes, egrets etc. and as we walked along and my wife was checking her shots on the back screen I heard her mutter; "They are a lot better, why didn't someone teach me this stuff 40 years ago?"
I wonder who she was calling "someone" since our oldest was 40 at that time? He was born the year I was teaching photo instead of hstory/geography/government.
Nov 26, 2022 14:40:28 #
wingclui44
Loc: CT USA
Very lovely! That's family tradition like father and son/daughter! Hope they don't turn the other way when they have their hands on the cell-phone!
Nov 27, 2022 05:19:15 #
TriX wrote:
A recent day when my son, who teaches photography, is teaching three of our grandchildren to shoot manual. They haven’t memorized the f stops yet, but the memorization mantra for the day was “smaller number, bigger opening”. He set all their shutters on 1/125 and auto ISO and had them shoot using different apertures. Some of the images were actually pretty decent. The next lesson is about shutter speed.
Way to go
Nov 27, 2022 05:23:00 #
TriX wrote:
A recent day when my son, who teaches photography, is teaching three of our grandchildren to shoot manual. They haven’t memorized the f stops yet, but the memorization mantra for the day was “smaller number, bigger opening”. He set all their shutters on 1/125 and auto ISO and had them shoot using different apertures. Some of the images were actually pretty decent. The next lesson is about shutter speed.
Fantastic start!!!
Nov 27, 2022 07:33:19 #
Nov 27, 2022 07:51:34 #
TriX wrote:
A recent day when my son, who teaches photography, is teaching three of our grandchildren to shoot manual. They haven’t memorized the f stops yet, but the memorization mantra for the day was “smaller number, bigger opening”. He set all their shutters on 1/125 and auto ISO and had them shoot using different apertures. Some of the images were actually pretty decent. The next lesson is about shutter speed.
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