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Class in the Spotlight
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High schoolers acquire digital photo skills
 Photo by Wayne C. Moore Melinda Hurst Frye (left) helps SCAD Summer Seminar student Alena Jaffe with Photoshop pointers June 28. By Monique Bos Published: Friday, July 20, 2007 Each week of SCAD Summer Seminars is a bit different, said Melinda Hurst Frye (M.F.A., photography, 2006; see story below), who is teaching Manipulating the Image: Digital Photography Basics during all five sessions of the one-week workshops for high school students. And she has enjoyed getting to know each group. The seminars are geared to rising high school sophomores through seniors, and Hurst Frye said she learned quickly that adaptability was crucial, because students enter the course with a range of knowledge and skill levels. “You see what the general skill level of the class is, and work toward that,” she explained. “If someone is really advanced, we try to give them things to do on the side, so they’re learning as well.” She starts the week by sending students on a “photo scavenger hunt” in City Market. She and teaching assistant Michael Wessel, a graduate student in the photography program at SCAD, also take headshots of the students early in the seminar for use in a variety of in-class exercises. Hurst Frye and Wessel provide demonstrations of how to scan both 2-D images and 3-D objects, and they introduce students to the variety of tools offered in Photoshop. The students spend most of the week on a project designed to build on the concepts they learn each day. Hurst Frye gives them four options for the assignment: They can create a self-portrait without using their faces, relying instead on photos they have taken and objects they have scanned. Or they may combine multiple headshots of themselves, taken during the seminar, into one image, or draw facial features from several of their classmates’ headshots to create a composite face. The final option is to use a tripod or another steady surface to balance the camera, take several shots of themselves in different poses and different places within the frame, then bring all the images together. The results of this assignment are due on Thursdays and are exhibited in the SCAD Summer Seminar closing receptions, held Friday evenings. On the final day of class, Hurst Frye has the students combine text and image. They select a word to illustrate with their own photographs, scanned images, or appropriated images from magazines or the Internet. Then they incorporate the text into the piece, based on techniques she presents in class that day. “They’re usually [exhausted] by Friday,” she said. “The counselors do such a great job of keeping them entertained outside class.” Although she has taught other classes at SCAD, this summer marks Hurst Frye’s first foray into teaching SCAD Summer Seminars. Her classes have averaged 14-15 students, and she enjoys watching the high school students interact. “This is fun,” she said. “They do a great job; the dynamic is the most interesting thing to see.”  |
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