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Photographing Core Activities

Taking Pictures for Core Activities

The enclosed tips are based on a workshop held in Halifax by Ryan Lash. Ryan has spent the last year photographing 30 different clusters in countries across the world at the request of the Universal House of Justice.

1. An Establishing Shot: This shows the location of the activity and roughly how many people were there to document what was happening.

2. Action Shot: Most often it is interaction between two or more people.
Children’s Class & Jr. youth – shots of them colouring; playing games; studying or singing/dancing.
Devotional meetings – Convey sense of reverence; someone with a prayer book; head bowed down in prayer or group of people looking on.

3. Detail Shot: They may not be used very often, but they are valuable things to have such as people writing in their Ruhi book; pile of crayons and colouring sheet; pictures of close-up of hands on prayer book.

4. The 5 W’s -Who, What, Where, When & Why: Who attended; What notable things may have happened whether it be the history of the activity or a funny/exciting occurrence that may have happened; Where it was held address & town; The Date & Time of the activity. One simple thing to do if you are shooting digital is to actually take a picture of those notes and keep them all together.

Regarding permission: If the photos are to be kept within the community, most times a verbal agreement is adequate if everyone agrees to having photos taken.
In Canada you need written permission from those attending any minors under 14 years of age need parents signature. It is normally not an issue, in Ryan’s experience, it is the Baha’is who have the most difficulty with this issue, most others don’t mind. It is best to be prepared.

Ryan’s Blog can be found at: http://www.bahaiblog.net/

Short video of Ryan’s Workshop while in Halifax, NS.

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