Photography Merit badge for Merit Badge College 2011.

My goal as a counselor is to teach you the requirements of the merit badge and I hope you can learn something from me teaching it. My class is based on the latest MB work book and more current information. To pass my class you will need a filled out work sheet and a completed project; poster board or slide show.

You will need to read my presentation (see link below) and/ or be at the class to fill out the work sheet. To complete the project (requirement 4) you will need to read the presentation, AND, follow guidelines of how to take the photographs below.

Photography Merit badge requirements;

http://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Photography

You will need a filled out work sheet, can be downloaded from here;

http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/b/bf/Photography.pdf

Please note that in the past no real direction has been given on the photo taken for the prerequisite story or slide show.

If you read my presentation, you will find several techniques to make photos more interesting. In your poster board or slide show I will need you to use at least FIVE (5) of these techniques in the photos. Only one technique is necessary for each photo but more is OK and common. I prefer all photos to use at least one of the techniques. You need to be able to explain to me which technique(s) was used in each of those photos.

My presentation from 2011 in Adobe pdf (~5Mb);

http://www.miramis.com/images/photographyNEW.pdf

or, in Powerpoint presentation (large file 164Mb)

http://www.miramis.com/images/photographyNEW.pps

Techniques you can use;

Fast shutter speed – Stop motion (like wings of a bird or sports)

Slow shutter speed – Show motion (waterfall, or panning a car in motion showing wheels spinning or background blurred due to motion.

Depth of field – Shallow depth of field (used correctly like a portrait of a person or pet)

Depth of field – Deep, such as nature landscape, cityscape or other.

Wide Angle (zoomed out) – Landscape

Narrow Angle (zoomed in) – Portrait, animal, sports

Leading lines – Fence, road, train tracks

Framing – Use tree branches, bridges buildings to create a frame around the picture.

Various light sources – Natural light, Flash, ambient, fill flash

Questions? Counselor: Christian Ennerfelt, Tel: 410-546-1732 or Email; cennerfelt@hotmail.com