fandomhigh | Photography 101; Wednesday, Second Period [01/04].

It was a little surreal, honestly, to be back in a classroom, even if Prompto had spent the last few months looking forward to getting back into this again. And it was a nice, small class, good for easing back into it, and he was sitting on top of the desk at the front of the classroom when they came in, greeting them with a smile and a lift of his hand in a wave.

"Hey, guys," he said. "Welcome to photography class! I'm Prompto, I'm your instructor, and be patient with me if it's a little rough getting started, it's been a really long time since I've done this! But I've been into photography ever since I was a little kid, and I've just recently started doing it professionally, too, and I help run the Photo Hut here in town with my..." You'll have to forgive him a moment, to pause and grin stupidly at the fact that this was going to be one of the few times he'd have to use this word, and over what word he would very soon be replacing it with, "...fiancée...so I've got a decent amount of experience on me. But the nice thing about photography is that you don't even really need to be experienced to get a few good shots, but knowing the techniques and styles and what you can do to make better shots is not only really helpful, but it can also be kind of fun, too!

"Since we're such a small class," he added, "I hope we can really veer the class into the things you guys are particularly interested in, and I know this week is the first week, and everybody does introductions this week, but I'd like to do something a little different. Today, I mostly want to just introduce you to the equipment. I've got some great cameras on loan from the store for you guys to use, as well as some other things that'll come in handy later on in the semester when we really start to get into it, and I just want to show you how to use them, all the different functions, and really have you get to know your camera.

"And then, with that knowledge, I want you guys to go out there and start snapping up pictures to put into a collage and next week, you'll introduce yourself by showing off what you put together. Take pictures of yourself, your friends, pets if you have them. Things that you're interested in, things you like to do, favorite foods, favorite books, favorite spots on the island....anything about yourself you'd like to share in photographic form, and we'll all share our collages next week before we start really diving into the basics.

"But first..." Here, he hopped off the desk, and picked up a few cases to start handing over to the students, "let's make sure you know how to take all those really great shots of your favorite things, and I'll show you how to use these bad boys and all the cool things they can do."

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Ready to take some pictures!

Sakaki

Josephine Jones

On the one hand, you are getting a homework assignment on the first day.

On the other hand, as far as homework assignments go...that's not too bad of one!

Prompto had definitely snagged some very nice, high quality cameras for the students to use for the duration of the class, both digital ones and film ones, although he explains they'll be mostly working with the digital ones. And, with that, he gives a very enthusiastic and very detailed explanation of how to use them, their various features, and encourages a lot of snapping shots around the classroom to give them a try, all of which will be handwaved because someone doesn't actually know anything about cameras, but this guy sure does, and he's determined not to leave any stone unturned!

Sakaki knew her way around a camera pretty well, since she'd taken Argentum-sensei's photography class before (making her feel a little confused when he said it had been a while since he taught it, but he did look a lot older than she remembered, and also, it seemed like one of those things you just didn't think about too much if you could help it), but it was good to have a refresher.

Somehow, most of her test photos still ended up being of the floor or blurred by her thumb.

Jo didn't have a lot of experience with cameras, except for the disposable ones that she had gotten to take with her on the school trips so this was still something that was taking some used to.

She was still mostly confused about some of the features on the digital cameras and she had ended up taking a lot of photos of herself by accident when she had the camera turned round to figure out some of the buttons.

And, of course, Prompto is there should anyone need him for anything else, as well!

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