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Grade 7/8 students at Alvin A. McKay Middle School in Greenville in the Nass Valley take the pictures for photo day at school after learning a few photography tips.
Students gain photographic experience
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GREENVILLE - A group of Grade 7 and 8 students in the Nass Valley are getting some extra learning in photography and taking great pictures in the process. The students recently took pictures of themselves and their friends on school photo day and will be taking more photos as the school year goes on, notably the eulachon run next year, says Ken Cornett, principal of Alvin A. Mckay Middle School in Greenville (Lakalzap). It started when Cornett went to take Santa photos and when
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asked, he said he was going to take some and the students were going to take some. The young people had been given some instruction about posing the day before and they did what they were told and the photos turned out really nice, said Cornett. “One boy’s mother is into photography and she was telling him how to pose and he said ‘I already know that stuff, he said, that’s what we learned yesterday,’” said Cornett. Six or seven students were interested in learning and taking the photos out of the classes, he added. “They love it. They want to
do more,” he said, adding that the school photos were done in front of a green screen so they could change the background but there was a time constraint so no changes were made. Students that were absent for photo day will have their photos taken by these young photographers at the next school photo day next year. Cornett, who’s a wildlife photographer and likes making documentaries, wants to do a photojournalism project of the students’ photography. And besides the eulachon, there’s plenty more wildlife for the students to photograph: seal lions, seals, killer whales and
then the fishermen too. When Cornett first came to the Nass Valley, he visited with different people and whatever their occupation was, he tried to make a story out of it with a series of photos. “That’s what I want them to do,” he said about the students’ future subjects. Alvin A. McKay Middle School contains Kindergarten and Grades 5-8 classes. It was formerly called Lakalzap Elementary School but was later renamed to recognize the achievements of Alvin McKay, a longtime educator and also school administrator in the Nass Valley.
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