Taking a quality photo, organising it and reusing it for different purposes is a foundational skill for creating a digital outcome.

By creating your own stock photo you own the copyright on it, so you can use it and say who can use it.

The starting skills of taking a good photo

Follow this tutorial and take 50 photos trying out different ideas

Privacy regarding cars and licence plates, try and take photos of students without their faces, ask permission and show the photo to the people in it to make sure they like it. Respect if they don’t and delete it and ask if you can take another photo. 

Review the photos you took after each session check: 

• Is my photo blurry or is it in focus? 

• Is my photo balanced? Is the subject in the right place?

If the answer to either of these questions is yes, then delete the photo. 

If the answer is no, then rename your photo with your classes filing system. Remember the name needs to make sense to someone else.