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Hello Readers

Do you enjoy taking photographs?  Well I know I do, and for the past two weeks my class and I have had the pleasure of working with people from Arts Umbrella!  Oh, you don’t know what Arts Umbrella is?  OK than, Arts Umbrella is a wonderful school for arts, and two people from Arts Umbrella came to my school and my classroom to show us part of what they do, photographing!  Josh and Fraziska from Arts Umbrella taught us how to use MotionSequence, something on your computer that allows you to take pictures with this tiny camera and make them into real works of art!

We were allowed to play around with MotionSequence for a while, but than we started focusing on taking pictures mainly on electricity because that is what my class has been learning about this term in science.  We had to take lots of pictures and than chose our favorite one and than make it big on the screen.  After we did that we would walk around the room with a couple of sticky notes and a pencil and find pictures that caught our eye and critique them.  This meant writing suggestions, what you like about it specificly, making connections, and other things that would help that person and picture to improve. 

I got so much helpful feedback, and I was and am very proud of my work and now I would like to show you my favorite picture I have taken with MotioSequence. 

Now before I forget I would just like to give a huge thank you on behalf of me and my class to Josh and Franziska, they have worked so hard and taught us all so much, I couldn’t have had this great experience if they didn’t come to my class.  I really feel quite lucky and I hope you had fun working with me and my class because I know we had a great time working with you!  Thanks so much!

~ by Catie on May 22, 2009. Tagged: art, electricity, pictures