School Curriculum in Photography is an online resource for students of all ages who are wanting to improve their photography skills. This site was originally designed for students at Santa Cruz High School in Santa Cruz, California who were working with black and white photography and a darkroom. Time has grown the site into a place where photo students from all over the world can come for extra help and a few photo challenges to help learn how to "make a photograph" rather than a "snapshot" that is taken without thought for the finished product.

Here are a few of the things you will find helpful - click on the links to view each and perhaps discover some hidden material not listed.

Technical Assistance

This section contains information about using your camera to make a great photograph rather than a snapshot.

Projects - Try these

These are some of the projects used at SCHS for beginning photography students. Use them to challenge your own skills

Curriculum Extras

Here are a few handy links to material useful in a classroom.

Photo Composition
Looking at what it takes to make a photo special
Shadowgram - Pinhole Camera
Making a photograph without a camera
Magazine Projects 1 - 2 - 3 - 4
Look for pictures in magazines that illustrate
photo techniques
Camara Use
Types - Controls - Loading Film
Telling a story with a photo
Ecology - Building Piece - Posed
Film Types
For those of you who are not digital yet
Close Up
Looking for a photo from a different view point
Exposure Controls
Shutter - Aperture - ISO/ASA
Cropping to fix problem pictures
Portrait - Studio Still Life
Pictures taken in the studio
Creative Controls - Depth & Motion
Emotion Shot
Challenge yourself with this assignment
Test you knowledge
Test 1 - Test 2 - Final Photo Project
Reflection - Fill Light
Looking for that little extra in your photo
Photo Standards
Visual Arts standards for this class
Silouette
Dodge/Burn Demonstration
Zone System of Exposure
Ansel Adams system overview
Frame - Shapes
Choosing a subject that is unusual
ONLINE CLASS
Study photo online - find out more
Storybook - This is My Life
Photojournalism assignments
Enroll today in the SCPhoto Online Photography Class!

This is a semester class that was designed for secondary school students who are looking for a way to study photography on their own. Independent study working at home or through your school this class is open to anyone wanting to spend time looking at the process of photography and their own work with it. Students will complete the same assignments and work on the same material used by instructor Keith Wills while teaching photography at Santa Cruz High School for 28 years. This will be a standards based program helping students learn how to communicate using photography. All you need is a camera and film and a darkroom (or commercial photo lab) and a scanner to scan your work for Internet viewing (or a digital camera and Photoshop Elements software) and you are ready to go.

This class is self-directed. You work your own hours as they fit into your schedule. Assignments are completed and turned in before the end of the semester for review and evaluation.


MORE information.......Enroll Now


This site was designed and produced by Keith Wills, Education Technology Consultant - all materials on this site are under the usual copyright rules.  Photography teachers and educators are welcome to use any or all of this site for their curriculum as long as they don't place that content on their own web site.
Reguests for more information can be sent to keith at scphoto.com

Keith Wills Design


Last modified: Monday, July 09, 2007