Thursday, September 9, 2004

Our first real day of IPS, we learned how cameras work. The neatest thing I learned was how the mirror works inside the camera. Then we all enjoyed playing soccer!

After lunch, in our second class, we learned about shutter speed and aperture. I had never really known how the aperture changes the amount of light for the pictures until now. We also went to Old City Park next door where Will took our portraits for our name tags. After this, we had a third short session about finding medium tone, tone vs. color, and types of metering.

This evening we watched a neat video about photographers who won the Pulitzer prize for photojournalism. I really enjoyed watching as it showed the persistence in the most difficult circumstances. Afterwards we discussed our thoughts on the video and the different prizewinning images. That's the start to what looks like a great week!

—American Endeavor Student Sydnee Tuckett