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fandomhigh2024-02-22 04:04 am
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Photography Through the Ages; Thursday, Third Period [02/22].
"With the school trip coming up," said Prompto, leaning on the desk in the front of the classroom as usual, "I thought today would be a good day to deviate a little bit from the usual timeline and talk about a few things that I hope will be relevant to you next week, if you're going on the trip, especially since, well, taking a one-year-old into space for her first big vacation seems a little ill-advised, so I actually can't make it this time around. But that's where you guys come in! Because, yes, I'm that teacher who gives an assignment over the break period, but, I mean, it's also an assignment that I would hope you guys were going to do anyway. Just maybe with a little slight tweak.
"So, today, we're going to talk about travel photography, a little of its history, and we'll go over some examples and some helpful tips to follow.
"Then," he chuckled a little, because it sounded like a lot, but it was basically just looking at pictures, it wasn't that bad!, "we're going to talk about these guys." He reached back to pluck a disposable camera up from the desk and show it off. "Disposable cameras! Now, the first one of these showed up here around the year 1949, but it wasn't until about 1986 that they really started to take off, and then really had their heyday in the 1990s. The encroaching popularity and convenience of digital cameras, especially once cell phones started having camera built right in, turned these guys into a bit of a novelty or just a fun little gimmick...I know me and my wife had a bunch at our wedding so that guests could take pictures at the ceremony and reception, and it was a lot of fun to go through them all afterwards. And that's kind of what you'll be doing on the school trip!
"Err," he chuckled again, this time a little sheepish, "if you want. It's your vacation, you do whatever you want, but it'll be really cool to just see what you can shoot, and then when we're back the week after, we'll get a little more practice in developing them and see what you got! They're really easy to use, too, that's kind of the whole point, but we'll save that for after we talk a little about travel photography itself, to hopefully inspire you to really snag some good shots, because I am definitely looking forward to living vicariously through your experiences."
Well. At least he was honest about it, right?
"So, today, we're going to talk about travel photography, a little of its history, and we'll go over some examples and some helpful tips to follow.
"Then," he chuckled a little, because it sounded like a lot, but it was basically just looking at pictures, it wasn't that bad!, "we're going to talk about these guys." He reached back to pluck a disposable camera up from the desk and show it off. "Disposable cameras! Now, the first one of these showed up here around the year 1949, but it wasn't until about 1986 that they really started to take off, and then really had their heyday in the 1990s. The encroaching popularity and convenience of digital cameras, especially once cell phones started having camera built right in, turned these guys into a bit of a novelty or just a fun little gimmick...I know me and my wife had a bunch at our wedding so that guests could take pictures at the ceremony and reception, and it was a lot of fun to go through them all afterwards. And that's kind of what you'll be doing on the school trip!
"Err," he chuckled again, this time a little sheepish, "if you want. It's your vacation, you do whatever you want, but it'll be really cool to just see what you can shoot, and then when we're back the week after, we'll get a little more practice in developing them and see what you got! They're really easy to use, too, that's kind of the whole point, but we'll save that for after we talk a little about travel photography itself, to hopefully inspire you to really snag some good shots, because I am definitely looking forward to living vicariously through your experiences."
Well. At least he was honest about it, right?