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 Today We Are Going to Learn:

• How people used to take photos

• How we can take photos on phones and cameras
• How to take a good photo
• How to improve the photos you took

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 How People Took Photos Before Phones

• People used to take a photograph

on a camera that used film.
• The film could only fit a small number of shots on it.

• People paid a shop to turn their film into printed photos.

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 How People Took Photos Before Phones

• Sometimes you had to wait days for your

photos to come back from the shop.

• These photos were on glossy paper.

You could frame them or send them to people in the post.

• If there were bad photos, there was nothing you could do.

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 Using Technology to Take Photos

Taking a photo now is much easier.

• All you need is a phone, tablet or digital camera.

• You can take lots of pictures at a time.
• You can see your shots right away and share them quickly.
• You can delete ones you don’t like or edit them.

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 Digital Cameras
• A digital camera has a view screen that shows you
what your photo will look like.

• You can usually take lots of shots.

• It’s easy to delete the photos you don’t like.

• You usually need a computer to edit these photos.

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 Phone and Tablet Cameras
• Smartphones and tablets have a camera app
for taking photos.

• Most apps have the same buttons to help

you take a good photo.

• You can look at the screen as a preview

and click the shutter button to take the shot.
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 Phone and Tablet Cameras
• If a photo is not quite right you can delete it.

• Phones can store thousands of photos.

• It’s easy to share your photo with others.

• Your camera app will let you edit your photo,

e.g. you can brighten it or crop bits off that you don’t want.
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 Taking Photos Today is Much Easier
You can look at your You can edit the photo.
photo straight away.

You can delete the photo

You can share
the photo online.
if it’s no good.
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