Girl Scouts Badge Work: Digital Photography

Each of the moms in Ayla's girl scout troop take turns heading up a badge and running a meeting during the year.  Monday night was my night! We tackled the Digital Photography Badge.  

First we talked about the different kind of cameras: Point & Shoot, SLR & Mobile Devices

We talked about the diffferent settings: Automatic, Portrait, Sport, Landscape, Macro, Night, & Video

We discussed what makes a good photo and I gave them my 10 Tips for Taking Better Photos:

1. Take LOTS of photos
2. Change your perspective.
3. Zoom In AND Out
4. Turn off your flash.
5. Check your background.
6. Use the Rule of Thirds.
7. Position your subjects.
8. Read your camera's manual.
9. Tell the story.

Then they headed out on assignment.  Each group was supposed to take 5 photos:

• Portrait
• Group of People
• Detail
• Landscape
• Action

They seemed to have a lot of fun and we managed to cram a lot into one short meeting.  If we'd had more time, we would have spent some time editing and creating a project with our pictures, but we DID talk about all the cool things you can do with digital photography.