Photo Diary as a reflection method

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What it is?

Photo diary is one’s personal project or agenda, where he or she somehow regularly produces meaningful photographs about his or her life. Photo diary helps to perceive world around us, supports to recall one’s memory, thoughts, emotions.

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Dialogue with yourself

Perhaps the most important feature is however to make ‘inner’ dialogue with yourself. It reveals meanings to your life. Photo diary can be public or private and it’s form is totally free. Technically it can be weblog, homesite, ordinary photo album, shoebox full of photos, negative archive, part of wider net service etc.

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Reflection is thinking

Thinking and writing, reflecting, is very important when working with photography as photo diary.

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How can you make your own photo diary?1. Photograph your everyday life, meaningful, joyful

and interesting things.

2. Publish your photos on your own blog or make a new blog for it.

3. Pay attention to those thoughts, feelings and emotions of success that diary working arouses. Write them down (reflect).

4.Keep on blogging at least 2 months. Take photos and reflect regularly.

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When you decide to start your photo diary working, try to find out such thingswhich are interesting and meaningful for you

you feel to strenghten you

that could help you to surpass your expectations of yourself

that give you new ideas

that brings up good memories

which represents your way to thing and act when gaining success

which head your thoughts to the future

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Your own stuff

Keeping regular photo diary is your own decision, your own 'business' and you are the very person who is getting potential benefit from it. Perhaps you'll find some new aspect of studying by acting like this manner.

More information about photo diary and the study:

http://photodiaryblog.com

Keywords: photo diary, meaningfulness, self-efficacy, reflection, self regulation, metacognition

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Learning assignment

Keep photodiary for one week (7 days) on your blog

Comment at least once your every studying pal's postings

Start TODAY :)

Closing session on virtual meeting 13.3.2013 6pm

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Rehearsal: The time dimension of photograph

Let's make some photographic rehearsal that you can utilize on your own photo diary! One of the most relevant aspect of photography is the time dimension. Photograph always stops a certain 'time slice' which is some kind of sample of the stream of time. The sample can be thin or thick: from permille of second to several hours time. Photograph's very fascinating property is just that: to make visible things the human eye doesn't normally see.

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Three ways to manage light

There are three ways to manage the intensity of light on camera exposure: the aperture, the time speed and ISO value (so called film speed)

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Some options to try out time dimension

1. If you have possibility to take time exposure (long exposure) on your camera, try it. Requirement of time exposure is dark light condition. Keep the camera steady or swing & sweep the camera during long exposure.

2. Take a photo sequence: try to make sequence (3-5 photos) that tells something about time.

3. Try TimeLapse photography. Time lapse means kind of photo sequence (hundreths or thousands of photos) that make an animation. There are applications for mobile phones for that purpose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-lapse_photography

4. Try pinhole photography, Image without the lens. It is easy to try with Digital SLR. You need only tin foil and body cap. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinhole_camera

5. Try Everyday app or take a photo everyday of your face. After you have at least few hundreth photos you can make an animation. http://everyday-app.com/

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Publish your rehearsals!

Upload your photos to Flickr Group Timedimension:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/2072002@N21/

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Questions?

ari.rapo @ gmail.com

044-033 0333

www.blipfoto.com/arirapo

www.twitter.com/arirapo

www.photodiaryblog.com

www.opemedia.mobi/blog

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www.raponet.fi

This presentation stands for mentoring purposes for Oulu university LET students by group ‘Mejipo’, 2012-2013. All rights reserved.

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