Digital Photography -- Sunflowers

In this project, Digital Photography students will all given the same image of sunflowers and they had 15 minutes to manipulate the photo in any way using the photo editing and manipulation skills they had learned. The results are diverse in style and technique.

I also tied in a lesson on image appropriation.  The sunflower image was an photograph that as available for use and editing under the Creative Commons License. We talked about the different types of license and how to determine if and how an image can be used.

This is a great lesson to use at the midpoint of a course to check student understanding.  I also find that critiques are very productive, because students can share the different tools and techniques they have used, and it allows for my more advanced students to teach their classmates.