Week 4: Photo Editing

Pass the years, pictures have changed the way they are presented and taken. In the past people brought a camera that contained film. These pictures were then developed in a local chemist, which would take a day to develop. Group pictures relied on one member of the group to be isolated from the others to take the picture. Nowadays, people have cameras on their phones and/or have the actual camera device. Instead of a member being isolated from group pictures they now can set a timer, or yet take a ‘selfie’, which is a picture of one taking a photo of them self. Pictures now can be uploaded to a computer and stored, and instead of taking the film in to get developed, people can print their pictures off of computers or upload them to social media to share amongst others. Pictures are used in the classroom to help students, who are visual learners, to understand and gain knowledge about certain tasks and lessons. Students can also use pictures as a framework to show their understanding to their peers or teachers. These pictures could show diagrams or illustrations to show the students way of thinking, if they were to have a vocabulary difficulty. Photography can also be a way for the teacher to record student’s achievements or/and work visually for parents to interpret.  

There are many advantages using photos in the classroom. They can be used as a learning material, as well as a behaviour management tool. Students can accomplish many different behaviour aspects through their life, some positive and some negative. These accomplishes can be recorded using photos and shown to parents or other teachers at a later date. Another positive about photos is the activities students can participate in. With the technology today, people benefit because they are allowed to edit their pictures, Editing allows the participant to make changes to their picture, such as, changing the colour (applying a filter), editing marks or red skin on the photo, changing red eyes and much more.  Students can participate in this activity by taking a photo and applying these changes. Students can share their work on a website created by the teacher for the classroom to have an art gallery in the classroom. This will allow the student to show their work to their peers and describe the changes they made and why they made those changes.  They will show their peers the before and after picture and publish their description and before and after pictures on a website. These activities allows the students to participate in the technical world using pictures and is set so the students aren’t just editing a picture and not understanding why pictures are edited.

The photo edited this week shows how crop, resizing and filtering has been used to re-enhance the photo.