Lesson Plan

Here are the steps I want the learners to follow when they’re learning about a new technique:

1. Learn to see. Look at a several photographs that use the technique. About each photograph, ask:
-- What was the photographer trying to do with this photograph?
-- Did he/she succeed?
-- What strikes you as effective?
-- What doesn’t seem to work?
-- How could the photographer have improved the photograph?

2. describe the technique -- provide information to the learners about:
-- what the technique is called
-- what photographers say is the technique’s visual effect

3. practice identifying photographs that use the technique.

4. practice applying the technique in your own photography.