I’m hosting a photography bootcamp to get people interested into photography. It’ll include a 1h session on the basics of photography including some advanced techniques followed by a 1 hour practical session where people get to try some of the stuff they’ve learnt.
I know the time is very limited but unfortunately 2h is all I have. What could be some interesting little projects for participants to create? We’ll have enough camera equipment so they can do it in pairs.
An idea I saw online on a video production project is: they get given a set of B-Roll, interviews, images, and voiceovers and need to create a 1 minute news report using that material. This sounds really interesting and I’m looking for something of a similar calibre for photography but struggling with ideas.
Thanks.
Just like back in high school taking photography. You spend the first our teaching basic techniques of framing, subject selection, lighting etc… Then you send them out in the area you are at and have them all take 5-10 photos using the techniques you taught them to make ordinary objects into artistically interesting. A park, office complex etc… does not matter where (in high school we used to literally have to stay on the School grounds during class and go do this. Don’t lock them in, given them freedom of expression just press to demonstrate technique in their images of what is around where they are at