Use the school camera Burney lends you to test aperture, shutter speed, and ISO.
Ask: What happens to a photo when you change one part of the exposure triangle?
Create a themed photo series that guides viewers’ ideas, emotions, and experiences.
Work with peers to select images and write a clear exhibition story.
Compare your first and last photos, then describe what became easier or harder.
Learning goals
I can explain how the exposure triangle controls a photo’s light and meaning.
I can test one triangle part at a time with Burney’s school camera.
I can compare how media and viewing places shape ideas, feelings, actions, and audience experience.
I can co-create a themed display whose narrative guides viewers’ ideas and experiences.
I can compare my first and last photos, then describe what became easier or harder.
Standards
[National Core Arts Standards] VA:Re7.2.8a - Compare and contrast contexts and media in which viewers encounter images that influence ideas, emotions, and actions.
[National Core Arts Standards] VA:Pr5.1.8a - Collaboratively prepare and present selected theme-based artwork for display and formulate exhibition narratives for the viewer.
[National Core Arts Standards] VA:Pr6.1.8a - Analyze why and how an exhibition or collection may influence ideas, beliefs, and experiences.
[National Core Arts Standards] MA:Re7.1.8.b - Compare, contrast, and analyze how various forms, methods, and styles in media artworks manage audience experience and create intention.
[National Core Arts Standards] VA:Cr2.1.8a - Demonstrate willingness to experiment, innovate, and take risks to pursue ideas, forms, and meanings that emerge in the process of art-making or designing.
Competencies
Effective Communication - Students practice listening to understand, communicating with empathy, and share their learning through exhibiting, presenting and reflecting on their work.
Content Expertise - Students develop key competencies, skills, and dispositions with ample opportunities to apply knowledge and engage in work that matters to them.
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving - Students consider a variety of innovative approaches to address and understand complex questions that are authentic and important to their communities.
Collaboration - Students co-design projects with peers, exercise shared-decision making, strengthen relational agency, resolve conflict, and assume leadership roles.
Self Directed Learning - Students use teacher and peer feedback and self-reflection to monitor and direct their own learning while building self knowledge both in and out of the classroom.
Products
Create a labeled photo series with the school camera Burney lends you.
Answer: What happens when you change one part of the exposure triangle?
Prepare your final photo and exhibition narrative for a shared display.
Explain how your image choices may shape viewers’ ideas, emotions, or actions.
Compare your first and last photos, then describe what became easier or harder.
Launch
Use Burney’s loaned school camera to take your first photo in automatic mode.
Keep this photo to compare with your last photo during your final reflection.
Compare three exposures of one scene and notice how each shapes viewers’ feelings.
Share one observation with a partner, then listen to their observation.
What happens to a photo when you change one part of the exposure triangle?
Exhibition
Create a paired photo display using images taken with Burney’s school camera.
Title it, “What happens to a photo when you change one exposure triangle part?”
Explain how your choices may shape viewers’ ideas, emotions, or actions.
Arrange the exhibition with a peer and invite Burney and your school community.
Compare your first and last photos. Describe what became easier or harder.
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Snap, Set, Expose: Mastering the Exposure Triangle
