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Elvis' Module 3 (working in progress)
**Elvis' Example of Foundations of Photography: Composition From [|Lynda.com] ** [] Problem Analysis
 * 1) Does the course you selected in Module 1 involve problem solving? If it does, can you identify the content elements of the problem? If it does not, can you identify a problem for which this course teaches component skills? For the problem you select, try to identify the content elements required by the problem you selected. Try to identify the prescribed instructional events required by the problem you selected.

The objective for this course is teaching people understand the foundation of composition. In my opinion, this foundation of photography course does involve problem-solving but it is definitely not using a problem-centered instructional strategy. However, I think this course contains a lot of information about composition. As I watched through some of the videos, I noticed this course includes the problem-solving step (how-to) but lacks of the what-happens. I was having a hard time identifying the problem solving event. This course does give out examples from topics to topics. Each topic contains a short example of a common problem that people might have. However, it's not a simple-to complex progression of whole real-world problem from the very first chapter to the end. All those questions and problems are unrelated to each other in each chapters so I think this course is not a problem-based instructional course.

In fact, this course might be a good example for learning three component skills:information-about, part-of, and kind-of. The learners are learning different topics and all of them are the basic skills in order to fully understand the foundation of composition. It's a topic-centered instructional tutorial site. The topic information starts with an introduction to foundation of photography, describing basic photography elements and basic photography terms. Then it begins with lines, shapes and many other kind-of, part- of component skills. As the topics get more complex, such as working with the lighting, perspective,direction, texture and symmetry and etc. A possible problem that could be used as a problem-centered focus for instruction is to have learners work on a photo set. Mastering each topic could lead you to a lot of different problems and requires you to have the abilities to solve the problem.

Take the lighting lesson for example, if you are shooting for a friend's wedding invitation photo set then you need to know what kind of lighting will look good on both of the bride and groom. Your friends, the couple, might have a different skin tone, different height and many other reasons which will lead to bad photos. How do you as a photographer eliminate the bad outcomes? Then you identify the lighting for outdoor and indoor, the direction you are shooting, the perspective you are selecting > ||~ ||> || 08m 30s || > ||~ ||> || 02m 07s || > ||~ ||> || 01m 19s || > ||~ ||> || 02m 44s || > ||~ ||> || 00m 58s || > ||~ ||
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