Photography Class 1a

Sunday saw Yizong and I teach our next photography class. Or rather, reteach the first class. With so many people not there we felt it would be better to go over all the previous material if we had more people. This time we definitely had more people.

The class went much as the first one did, especially with Yizong trying to be professor. He didn't engage in it as much this time around, which was good, but he still has the professorial leanings. I did more talking this time around, and I also put in some of my own pictures to help explain things. We covered all the topics previously, then I covered leading lines and some additional perspective items.

What struck me this time around was the immaturity and undisciplinedness of the kids. We had everything in there from a 12 year old to a high school senior. It was a tossup who was more undisciplined, the 12yo or the senior. Shelby, the senior, was seemed more interested in twitting Yizong for his heavily-accented English than paying attention to what was being talked about. She stopped once I started talking. Two others, Selena and Travis, were far more interested in texting or doing something else on their cell phones. I'm sure Selena didn't care one whit about anything that was being said. It was a constant battle to keep everyone's attention, and after a time, it was a drag. There was constant talking, twittering, noise, and side discussions all over the place. How do we overcome that? Do we overcome that? One thing is for sure, these kids definitely aren't Ridglea kids.