Photo of the week by Maggie McCauslandby Carolyn Brown
SJHS Staff Writer
Photography is a popular elective class at Springville Junior High. Students learn how to take pictures the professional way and enhance them with a program called GIMP. The students in the class take pictures of many things like portraits and landscapes. Right now the class is shooting pictures of babies. Soon they will be doing abstract themes. For example, they will be asked to take pictures of love, greed or fear. They get to go out of the classroom and take one set of pictures every week. “With week long assignments you get a lot more room to be creative,” says a ninth grader in the class, Kate Baxter.
SJHS Staff Writer
Photography is a popular elective class at Springville Junior High. Students learn how to take pictures the professional way and enhance them with a program called GIMP. The students in the class take pictures of many things like portraits and landscapes. Right now the class is shooting pictures of babies. Soon they will be doing abstract themes. For example, they will be asked to take pictures of love, greed or fear. They get to go out of the classroom and take one set of pictures every week. “With week long assignments you get a lot more room to be creative,” says a ninth grader in the class, Kate Baxter.
This class isn’t only about school though. “The internet is a visual thing, and everything is becoming digital. I think that students should learn how to use something that is becoming more popular every year,” says Mr. Gillespie, the photography teacher. Digital Photography is a new territory that has been gaining popularity for the last five or so years.
It is also popular among the student in the class. “It’s challenging but fun; every picture will be different,” says Phoenix Mackley an eighth grader in the class. The photography class is a really big hit at Springville Junior High.
