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(drawing by Beg. Art student, Amanda Worden) My name is Jeanne Townsend. I am married and have 2 daughters who make me extremely proud and keep me extremely busy. This is my 24th year as a art teacher with Midland Public Schools. I like to travel with my family, draw and scrapbook.

__Digital Photography applications in art class__
 * Have students use digital photography to photogragph refernces (in 3D photograph at multiple angles)
 * Creation of portofolios (contest submission, college application)
 * Perspective assessment - have students shoot examples of 1 pt, 2 pt and 3 pt perspective to demonstrate the under the the concepts and the differences.
 * Open house slide show
 * Shoot still life references (for students who are behind, or are absent)
 * Creation of virtual field trip
 * Document the process of creation of a project (ex: bronze casting)
 * Perspective references - have students shoot a perspective reference, print the reference and then physically locate the vanishing point(s)
 * Use photo editor to demonstrate what contrast can do to improve the quality of a drawing (could photograph a work in progress and show the student how much better it could be with stronger contrast)

My brother in law purchased this group picture of his daughter's dance number but did not for some unknown reason have an individual photo taken. He has an individual dance photo of her for the past 7 years and wanted one for this year too. SO.... using Gimp I cropped her out of the group photo and then used the cloning tool to duplicate the back ground behind her.

I used Gimp to arbituarily rotate the photo to straighten it out. I then used Gimp to clone out the table leg in the upper right hand corner.