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Getting to Know Your DSLR

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Enduring Understandings

  • ​Artist and designers develop excellence through practice and constructive critique, reflecting on, revising, and refining work over time.

  • Through art-making, people make meaning by investigating and developing awareness of perceptions, knowledge, and experiences.

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Essential Questions

  • How do artists and designers create works of art or design that effectively communicate?

  • How does making art attune people to their surroundings?

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Objectives

  • Students will understand and be able use vocabulary related to Digital Single Reflex Cameras

  • Students will be able to identify and use the features of thier DSLR cameras.

  • Students will work as a group using their cameras to illustrate the principles of design.

  • Students will document a set of visual requirements using their cameras.

  • Students will reflect on their process and product in writing using their art vocabulary.

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Vocabulary

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  • lens

  • body

  • SD card

  • automatic / manual

  • Program Mode

  • Shutter-Priority Mode

  • Aperture-Priority Mode

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  • White balance

  • Bracketing

  •  Focal Point

Scavenger Hunt / Student Examples
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