Playing With Our Food

We all know that we're not supposed to play with our food at the table, but when we're taking photos of it, we can make an exception!

Food photography is a specialized niche of commercial photography, with the goal of producing enticing images for placement in magazines, cookbooks, advertisements, or menus. We decided to try our hand at this technique.

Students brought in some of their favorite treats and arranged these vittles creatively to make them look as appetizing as possible. We all worked together to help each other with backgrounds, lighting, and of course, eating the leftovers!

After the original photo was taken, students used Photoshop tools to create various effects, such as watercolors, mosaics, graphic pen drawings, and more!

Mosaic Magic

This project was purely inspired by the students! It was something they wanted to try, so we gave it our best shot. The mosaics turned out beautifully! Each portrait of our class is made up of smaller photo tiles. These photo tiles vary from project to project. Some people chose to take photos of friends, while others chose to take photos of sports equipment, drum sets, and even themselves. If you click on the photos below to make them larger, you can zoom in to see the smaller tiles. This is a great idea, and I will definitely be using it with my classes in future years! Great job, Digi kids!

Kaleidoscopes: You Look Marvelous, My Dear!

As promised, the 7th Grade Digi Photo Kaleidoscopes have arrived! Look at the beautiful work created by our students!

We toured the campus to get close-up shots of leaves, flowers, grasses, etc. as a continuation of our study of macro photography. We focused on color, lighting, and composition. After selecting their favorite shots, students cropped a tile from the original photo and duplicated it, rotated it, and flipped it to create an abstracted kaleidoscope image.

We will hang these projects on the 2nd floor of the Middle School, so please stop by when you can to see these marvelous prints in person! They are stunning and the students are extremely proud of their work.

Macro Photography

For the past few weeks, we've been studying macro photography, or close-up photography. We walked around Calvert's campus with our cameras in hand and took several pictures of the fall foliage. The purpose of this type of photography is to gather crisp, detailed shots that show great detail and texture. Students will then select a photo they would like to use for our kaleidoscope project. Wait until you see the creations that are coming out of Room 201 in the Middle School! The patterns, colors, and shapes are breath taking! After our student critique session and a round of revisions, we should be ready to post our final pieces by the end of this week!