I have researched what is needed to become a
professional Photographer, there is no rule really…. But if you’re trying to
work for someone else ( as a photographer) then getting a BA HONS Degree is the
best way to start, it’s a 3 year course and is very intense and you have to
research about past artist’s not just photographers mind. Once you get your BA
HONS Degree you can work towards your Master, but that’s another 3 years.
In the next few weeks I am going to be teaching a family
friend about photography and stuff I have learnt to help her learn. The first
week I will tell her about the different settings and what they do to the light
and also a bit about my favourite photographer and his work and his ideas and
get her to try them out in her house using a doll or something. The next week I
will have someone who will be willing to pose for photographs and will get her
to try different ideas and settings in her garden. The third week we will go to
a park or somewhere and take someone with us and I will see how she does with
all the settings taking a portrait.
I think it will help for me to keep things simple and
explain things simply and also have her to do things on her camera as I explain
them. I think to teach her well I will need to go over the settings a
few times and also keep patient when I do the lessons.
I plan to teach Ann how to take a photo of someone without
having to use flash and without it being too dark. Ann has told me this is
something she has a problem with because she does not know anything about
settings on a camera so just puts the flash up and hopes for the best. Ann’s
main interest was in taking a good portrait and not having to use flash for it.
She told me this when we chatted about me helping her with her photography. Ann
had her own camera to use and plenty of things in the house to practice on and
also a nice garden to practice in. We planned to use her granddaughter for the
photographs outside but in the end she couldn’t come so we had to change plans.
All the way through the lessons I would ask Ann to explain stuff back to me to
check she understood and remembered and then id decide if she understood and I
could teach something more or if I needed to go back over the stuff I’d already
told her. I think the biggest skills I need are patience and calmness and to be
able to explain things simply.
Health and Safety.
I had to think of health and safety. I had to check the
garden and make sure it was enclosed and safe. I had to make sure I had another
adult with me incase Ann got ill or fell or something. I had to think about
what would happen if it rained and would the decking in her garden get slippy.
There are not really many health and safety risks with photography in the home.
For the last photo lesson we were going to go for a walk so I had to think
about where we were going to go and if there were roads to cross and crossings
to use and if we went to somewhere old and tatty would there be bits of rusty
stuff on the floor or rickety walls. In the end her granddaughter could not do
the photos so I had to get my dad to be a model on one of the days and he
brought our dog so I had to check the garden and check she could not escape and
even though she is a sloppy dog still had to make sure there was a medicine kit
in the house incase the dog got spooked or something.
LESSON PLANS:-
Week 1.
Teach Ann the basics of the camera, show her all the buttons
and show her how to change the F-Stop, how to change an ISO and why it is
important to change the ISO based on the lighting were she is and get her to
try out all the settings by taking photos of a doll or something.
Week 2.
Take what Ann has learnt into the garden and take photographs
of one of her grandchildren using all the different settings and then
study the photos to see what she done good and what she needs to work on before
taking the photos on week three.
Week 3.
We will recap on the settings she has learnt and recap on
what she needed to work on from week two photos. We will go outside
to take more photographs of her grandchild but outside outside in the outside
world and use the things she recapped on.
After the lessons I will ask her to give me a review of my
lessons and how I was as a teacher.
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