Artography.

[Tom Raymond]

My son is a freshman this year. His mother and I were a little upset that he dropped spanish to make room for digital photography in his schedule.

He took these before school started with a tiny Nikon point and shoot. There are some technical flaws but the compositions are pretty impressive for a 13 year old with no training, even if I am a little biased. Maybe dropping spanish wasn't such a bad idea.

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[Les]

third one #748 is my favorite. I certainly am not a professional, but do know what I like to look at!

[Mike Lamb]

I like the third one, too. He is looking at things from different angles which is good. For a beginner, I think composition is more important than execution. If he enjoys it he will get better at the execution. Learning photo software is a must especially with cheap cameras.

[kurt]

Agreed on composition. Makes or breaks it.

[Tom Raymond]

Class requires a DSLR with manual focus. Fortunately we were able to borrow on.

They have a great program. They are learning camera functions, interpretation of others work, composition, and post production with Photoshop.

Ill post his progress.

[Jim Baird]

...digital is incidental to photography. It mainly just frees the user from film limitations. User still has to master composition, exposure, sensitivity, depth of field, f-stops, and shutter speed. I like most of these. Today's phones have pretty good cameras on them for point and shoot.