During Wellesley Middle school years, 8th grade students are given the choice of several electives within the visual art dept. This allows students interested in art to choose a specific art material they would like to concentrate on. For Photography students, they will be challenged to explore further with film cameras and photo paper their primary art material. Students will begin to learn the basics of how film cameras work and experience how a black and white darkroom set up is operated to develop their film images captured on camera to have it come alive on photo paper. By the end of the course, students will have a strong foundation of elements and principles of art within a 2D format to bring to the next level if they so choose to continue their studies of visual art at the high school level. As well as specifics in how to talk about photography, assess and improve work, how to load and operate a manual camera, frame a shot, set up lighting and shoot film, prepare and develop film and photos and safely use a darkroom. And most importantly, how to think like a photographer.
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