fandomhigh | Photography; Thursday, First Period [01/13].

Prompto had a lot of reasons to be both excited and nervous (hey, a lot could happen in a few days, especially regrets and reconsiderations!), but he had to get through teaching his class that morning first. That, however, he had nothing put pure excitement for, grinning faintly from where he was perched on the desk at the front of the classroom, eager to get started.

"Morning, guys!" he said. "I hope you've all had a good week and that you've had plenty of opportunity to snap some good shots to share today. I've been really excited to see what you managed to get, so we're going to start with that and have a look at what you got, and then we're going to talk a little bit about some basics on how to set up your shots, specifically through the use of framing and something called the Rule of Thirds. These concepts are going to be at the crux of almost any good photo. There are, of course, exceptions to the rule, ways to sort of break out of those concepts, but we're definitely not getting there today. In fact, we're not even going to ge tto framing and the Rule of Thirds yet, either, because I'm pretty sure you all have some pictures to show me, right?"

He grinned over at them, and hopped off the desk to move to the computer.

"So we'll take turns and come on over, and I'll show you how to hook up the camera so we can display the pictures on the board here for everyone to see, and we'll talk abuot them a little before getting into the real nitty-gritty technical stuff. Any volunteers to go first?"

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With good framing! Or the Rule of Thirds!

Alara Kitan

Kurt Wagner

Sakaki

Tahani al-Jamil

Alexis Rose

After Prompto's walked you through the process to transfer your pictures to the monitor, it's time for a little amatuer photography slide-show! Feel free to describe the pictures you took in as much or as little detail as you see fit and share whatever you'd like about the whole process!

Alara had managed to not break her camera in the first week that she’d had it and she’d managed to get quite a few different shots over the last week.

Her photos included shots of the gym and the dorm and then she’d also taken a few photos during her walk to JGOB on Saturday. There were still a few different shots of the ground in between her photos but for the first week they were actually pretty decent.

"There's always a few ground shots in there," Prompto noted with a small, sympathetic smile. "I tend to get a lot of random bushes in there, myself."

And she didn't break the camera! Or, if she did, Alara had been very sneaky about replacing it with a new one.

Kurt was actually kind of excited to show off his photos, especially after talking to Liz a little the day before. So when his camera was hooked up he was showing Prompto the phots he had gotten so far:

There were several of the quaint storefronts around town.

There were a few of some kind of animal tracks in the snow.

And a few of some people at the coffee shop, Libby at the clinic, and some other candid shots as well.

Are you excited about seeing just soooo many selfies, class?

Tahani went into excruciating detail about the clothing she was wearing, the lighting she was using, and the celebrities who liked the picture on Instagram.

"Well, maybe when we do get to selfies," Prompto had to note with a little chuckle, "I should just sit back and hand the reins over to you, Tahani. Those were great. Love that ~~handwavey designer of your choice~~, too."

What? If he turned to photography as a career, he'd sort of wanted to focus on fashion photography, after all!

There were a few shots on Sakaki's reel that involved her collection of stuffed animals, a few pictures of Hedwig, and a smattering of just random cute things that had caught her attention, but most of her photos were definitely from the animal shelter, up to and including all the puppies in the puppy pen dressed up as bumblebees, an insane amount of sleeping cats, a picture of a cat that just screamed 'warning!', followed very closely by another one of previous cat leaping toward the girl behind the camera, and then a photo of Sakaki's bandaged hand to show just a hint of the damage that had caused. Then more puppies, a few lizards, and Sidon photobombing her attempt to get some starfish in the fishtanks with a thumbs up.

"Oh!" Prompto's attention immediately snapped up with some of Sakaki's pictures. "Hey! Is that Furnado? That's my own stomping grounds, I used to work there, oh, man, are those bee costumes??"

And once everyone's had the chance to show off their pictures, it's time to get into the actual lesson, where Prompto will break down the basic concept behind framing and why it's important, as well as a pretty thorough breakdown with diagrams on the board and everything of the Rule of Thirds...

....also incorporating, where he could, examples directly from the photographs the students had taken themselves, to point out instances where they pretty much naturally nailed the framing or used the Rule of Thirds effectively, so please feel free to mod your photo being used as a good example!

He definitely would not be using any of their photos as examples of bad framing or Rule of Thirds, though, but he provided plenty examples of those from his own photo roll.

"And for next week," he offered, toward the end of class before completely dismissing everyone, "I'd like you to try and take a few more shots that really put these concepts to use, okay? I wanna see some good framing and some good Rule of Thirds at work, okay? Gotta put that stuff into practice, you know?"

He's definitely there, and would honestly probably appreciate some modicum of distraction before getting on with the rest of what his day may have in store for him.

After showing the photos he had taken Kurt was interested to see what Prompto thought of them.

"So, for a total newbie, what do you think of the first attempt?" he asked with a hesitant grin.

"Total newbie?" Prompto asked with a slight grin back. "Wouldn't have guessed it, those shots were really great, Kurt! I especially like that you really mixed it up with your subjects, got a little bit of everything in there. The animal tracks in particular were kinda artsy, I really liked those."

"Thank!" Kurt said beaming a little bit more. "The tracks were out in the woods so I'm not sure what animal made them. I think they look like dog tracks, well... puppy tracks since they are so small."

"Could be a real interesting project," Prompto suggested. "Try to see what kind of animal tracks you can get photos of and try to compare them to figure them out! Set some puppies from the shelter loose a little and see if they're the same."

Which, really, was just an excuse to play with puppies, and who wouldn't love that?

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