All about images!

Europaeische Bildungsinitiative — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:34:25 +0000

The CICERO course used digital photography to convey digital competences. Therefore, images are a central issue. To put it better, one could say: All about images. You have to see this short statement in two ways: On the one hand, the course actually offers a lot of information about images, on the other hand, working with images is used to impart knowledge and skills in the field of digital skills.

Image knowledge and skills

This area of the CICERO course focuses on image composition and proper use of all types of cameras.

The term cameras addresses – in the context of the course – smart phone cameras as well as DLSR and similar cameras.

Digital competences

This part of the course addresses the knowledge area and skills in the field of digital competences. The consortium orientated itself on the DigComp 2.0 framework and integrated essential content from this framework into the course.

In this project, hundreds of people from Austria, Greece, Portugal, and Spain participated in these courses. They created hundreds of pictures during the learning process. These images have been peer-evaluated, discussed, published in a joint facebook group and used for further work.

You can find the gallery with many of these images here: Course Image Gallery

The photo contest

Screenshot of the contest web page

The course participants were able to take part in a photo contest, the prizes for the best photos were 4 tablets. This competition served as an incentive to deal with the learning material and to achieve the desired learning goals.

More than 120 images were submitted to the contest. The winner was determined by a jury.

The first prize, awarded by the jury

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How can you learn to use camera without camera? Try the camera simulator tool

Juan De Lucas — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 09:33:39 +0000

When we begin to learn photography, we use to struggle with the parameters that define the exposure of a photograph works.

These parameters, as we see in the CICERO courses, are aperture, shutter speed and ISO.

Quick resume: aperture = amount of light; shutter speed = time of exposure; ISO = sensor/film sensitivity.

The best way to master these parameters is through practice. Take your camera, select the manual mode and try to modify them to see how they affects to your picture (you may take the shoot to see it). Sometimes taking a look to our camera’s instructions is a great way to understand our device.

But, what if we don’t have a camera which let us to modify these values? How can we get familiar with them? There are some free tools that, although they are not going to provide us the experience of taking pictures, they will make it easier to understand how photography works (or how these parameters work).

This is possible thanks to some “photography simulators”. Here we show you a free simulator from Canon that let us to “experiment” with aperture, shutter speed and ISO values, revealing to us (after clicking on the “virtual shoot” button) the picture result of the values we decided.

LET’S TRY: http://www.canonoutsideofauto.ca/play/