2003 School Magazine

FACULTIES

R E S O U R C E AN D L E AR NIN G INITIATIVE S

FROM FILM To DIGITAL Students today live in an era where layering multiple images and merging technology is developing at a hundred miles multiple images. Such images cannot be an hour' The advances in technology have created when using film. Digital cameras been improving every possible aspect of our also allow the user to delete poor quality lives. At Brisbane Girls Grammar School, shots at the press of a button. With film, the students are kept up to date with the user only sees the shot once the photos are technological advances occurring within developed, and if several poor quality shots our society. Among the more recent are taken, they cannot do anything about it. developments the changes in With digital. the user can instantly see are photography from film to digital. results and has the opportunity to replace the poor quality shot with a new one. This is Last Year, Brisbane Girls Grammar School such as Athletics Day students use these cameras. Digital cameras. at first, generated poor quality Arts students also benefit from digital photographs, but are fast approaching the cameras. Students can insta ntly tra nsfer high quality obtained by traditional film their photographs to the computer, edit photography. Digital cameras come with them and then print them. This not only many benefits, including the ability for removes the hassle of developing the students to use special features such as photographs, it also removes the hassle of especially useful for the School photographers who cover School events purchased six top-of-the-range digital cameras. The School photographers and Art

scanning them into the computer. Within digital cameras, there are several effects within the camera itself that Art students can utilise for maximum benefit, such as the negative effect in which the dark colours are reversed to light colours and vice versa Both School photographers and Art students can take advantage of the ability to edit their digital images on their computers Students can enhance, retouch or even embed their photos into documents, all with the click of a mouse The change from film photography to digital photography within the School has Improved the ability of students to express themselves and has provided students with up-to-date facilities that can only enhance their learning in today's ever-evolving digital world. Kalpana Maharage

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