Possibility
The Call: The Green Screen — Jessica
My eight-year old son has been playing with stop-motion animation. Thanks to a great little app on his Nintendo DS, he has a made a few “shorts” of his lego Star Wars figures battling aliens and crashing their ships. He asked me if he used a green screen if I could use Photoshop to put in a different background. How does he know about green screens? I’m not sure, but technology can offer our children so many possibilities for their little minds to create and explore.
Response: Charlotte’s Web — Cheryl
I often bring my camera bag (complete with body and four lenses) with me to church on Sunday. We attend Mass in the next town over and usually drive home by the lake. There’s always a good possibility of finding something to shoot. Today, I found my shot on the way in to church. A very large spider was cruising across it’s web to the insect it had captured earlier. Said web, spider and meal were located right in front of the memorial to unborn victims of abortion. I didn’t actually pray that the spider would still be there when Mass ended, but I was hopeful. After church, I retrieved the camera from my car and got my shots. When I downloaded them and saw the carved words in the background, I was especially pleased and reminded of the talented spinner in EB White’s classic.
Don’t you love creative kids? Three of my boys would sign up to be production assistants, if they could.
THAT is a cool shot! The words behind, the action of the spider, ooh! It’s thrillingly good! And you are the boy scout this time! So well prepared with your four lenses in tow… ; )