It's Elementary

Today, we're on a mission—educate elementary school children of their rights. Really? I know it's a long shot, but who am I to argue? Anyway, kids have always been a great subject for photographs. I'll tag along and see how many smiley faces I can capture.



Hmm. The kids seemed mildly interested ... or amused at the bigger kids who came.

     
     

I actually had a hard time picking the photos to upload, but I'm content that the ones I chose will tell the story.


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* [02-JAN-2009 1335H] We went back to Bgy. Agsungot—the exotic mountain barangay where we made our "crime scene" documentary. Anyway, this time we were visiting a public school. It was a different photography problem. There were so many people around that I actually had a hard time picking my subjects. And much more problematic here was the pace, everybody seems to be moving and moving a lot. I had several photos (4 out of 5) with subjects blurred in some way. Using the flash didn't help much also. It meant waiting for the flash to recharge while the subject already moved somewhere.

I just realized it now that the 4x4 (or multi-shot 16) photo should be suitable in this situation. I know the photos seemed tiny, but cropping the original to yield a 2x2 (or multi-shot 4) photo will actually produce a balance between action and size. This photo of Sharmine's classroom is illustrative.



Actually, there was so much going on in Sharmine's classroom that day, but I was rather slow to respond. I was too occupied with adjusting the settings of my camera such that in the end I missed the interesting moments entirely.