FALL 2012 Week 6

photo by Victoria J. Ahlers

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Photos of the week, MSNBC
2. History of Photojournalism: History of Photo Timeline, Roger Fenton, Mathew Brady
3. ASSIGNMENT #5; Lighting
4. Lesson; LIGHT part2
5. Photo essay; WELCOME HOME by Craig walker, 2012 Pulitzer Prize
6. Discuss potential ideas for Final Project photo essay.
7.  Flash demonstration in class
8. Assignment #06 Flash usage/Album cover 
9. EXAM; November 26th. NO MAKE-UPS.

ASSIGNMENT #07 FLASH USE/ALBUM COVER

ASSIGNMENT #07 FLASH USE/ALBUM COVER

(Due 10/29/12)

Flash Usage (2 parts) Rock Star

PART 1.

READING:

National Geographic Ultimate Field Guide

Read pages 25, 95-103, 103-117

Guide to Photojournalism

By Brian Horton

Read pages 79-101“Features and Portraits; Seeing the World Around Us.”

Visual Journalism

By Christopher R. Harris & Paul Martin Lester

Read pages 63-86“Technical Considerations.”

PART 2

History of Photojournalism; FSA (see photographers bios or the Blog)

PART 3

SHOOTING ASSIGNMENT (2) PARTS

Find a musician(s) to photograph, or an actor(s) to play a musician, and make an album/CD cover shots USING YOUR FLASH both indoors and outdoors. Also, add album title/artist text using Adobe photoshop. Plan your text placement before composing your images. Save image as Photoshop document

PART A

Photograph your musician indoors using a camera flash.

Be creative, and make personality driven images, highlighted by excellent lighting. Make well-composed and expressive photos of a person using your flash. Must be taken indoors.

***You will be graded on your creativity and use of flash.***

-Flash use should be executed perfectly.

-Set proper white balance setting be sure to have correct white balance usage.

-Use bounce flash whenever possible.

-AVOID: red eye, shadows behind heads, and other forms of sloppy flash use.

Keep in mind some of the elements of good composition, avoiding; cluttered and distracting backgrounds, objects appearing behind heads, dead space, etc. Fill the frame, making interesting, personality-filled photos, that have impact.

Composition, positioning, background, lighting, and lens selection should all be taken into consideration.

-consider the various flash techniques, such as: bounce flash, fill-flash, diffused flash.

PART B

Photograph your musician outdoors using a camera flash. This should be a different set-up than the indoor images.

Can be taken during daytime, night-time, or twilight.

Be creative, and make personality driven images. Make well-composed and expressive photos of a person using your flash. Must be taken indoors.

***You will be graded on your creativity and use of flash.***

-Flash use should be executed perfectly.

-Set proper white balance setting, be sure to have correct white balance usage.

-Use bounce flash whenever possible.

-AVOID: red eye, shadows behind heads, and other forms of sloppy flash use.

Keep in mind some of the elements of good composition, avoiding; cluttered and distracting backgrounds, objects appearing behind heads, dead space, etc. Fill the frame, making interesting, personality-filled photos, that have impact.

Composition, positioning, background, lighting, and lens selection should all be taken into consideration.

-consider the various flash techniques, such as: bounce flash, fill-flash, diffused flash.

*Study methods discussed in class and in reading material.

*Students must complete:

1. Select (1) best photo for each part.

2. Add text: album title and artist name

3. Save image as Photoshop document, NOT JPG.

4. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:

Last name_flash.jpg

EXAMPLE: franklin_ flash01.psd

franklin_ flash02.psd

5. Place images in the “drop folder.”

Week 5 Fall 2012

photo by Kaylee Lazzaro
TODAY'S AGENDA
1. Photos of the week, MSNBC
2. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #04 Composition
3.Lesson; Covering a live assignment
4. Lesson; LIGHT part I
5. ASSIGNMENT #5; Lighting
6. ASSIGNMENT #6; Covering a Live Event
7. Photo essay; Eye of the Storm;Times-Picayune - NOLA.com
8. Final Project; be prepared to discuss (3) potential ideas for Final Project photo essay.

9. Elian Gonzales photos, by Alan Diaz. Time

ASSIGNMENT #06 Live Event

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ASSIGNMENT #06

(Due Monday 11/5/12 (three weeks)

Live Event (Multiple Pictures)

PART 1

READING:

Guide to Photojournalism

By Brian Horton

Read pages 54-77

“News: Sensitivity, Thinking, Instinct and Curiosity”

Read pages 131-152

“Lessons; Horst Faas, J.Pat Carter, Alan Diaz”

PART 2

HISTORY OF PHOTOJOURNALISM

Please read the following DOC’s:

1. DOROTHEA LANGE
2. FSA PHOTOGRAPHERS
3. JACOB RIIS & LEWIS HINE

PART 3

Come up with a short list of subjects for consideration for your final project. Be ready to discuss in class.

PART 4

Cover a Live Event / Multiple Pictures

Select a scheduled public event and photograph all aspects of the event in the form of a photo essay. Be sure to shoot various scenes, including overalls and details, and illustrate what the event is about. Get photos of all the important people and subject matter.

Select a carefully chosen event to shoot, thus you have three weeks to plan.

Suggestions; news event, parade, protest, performance, etc.

Do not shoot a sporting event, a press conference, fair, etc. Check newspaper, campus fliers, and magazine listings for a schedule of events in your area.

Select an event that will be visual, not something static like someone standing at a podium talking. Think of some of the work reviewed in class. Your event selection is key, give it some thought and planning.

Be prepared to use your flash if necessary. Keep in mind some of the elements of good composition, avoiding; cluttered and distracting backgrounds, objects appearing behind heads, dead space, etc. Fill the frame, making interesting photographs that have impact. Composition, positioning, background, and lens selection should all be taken into consideration. Photos as a collection should illustrate what the event is about. Make the photos relevant, avoid repetition.

1. Select (8) different images must be submitted.
2. Be sure to include people in at least (4) photos.
3. Include (1) over-all, scene setter.
4. Include (1) detail or close up. Can be of a person. Make it relevant.
5. Do not select repetitive photos.
6. CAPTION: be sure to get subject’s names and brief description of what they are doing,; who, what, when, where, why. Missing names will hurt your grade.
7. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:

Last name_live event1.jpg Last name_ live event2.jpg

EXAMPLE: franklin_ live event1.jpg

franklin_ live event2.jpg

8. Place images in the “drop folder.”

ASSIGNMENT #05 Light

ASSIGNMENT #05

(Due 10/22/12)

Light

PART 1

History of Photojournalism; Jacob Riis & Lewis Hine

PART 2

READING:

National Geographic Field Guide

Read pages 103-117

Guide to Photojournalism

By Brian Horton

Read pages 79-101“Features and Portraits; Seeing the World Around Us.”

Visual Journalism

By Christopher R. Harris & Paul Martin Lester

Read pages 63-86“Technical Considerations.”

PART 3

Light

Lighting MUST be the key element in these photos.

DO NOT USE A FLASH!

Photo 1: A documentary photo of some aspect of college life with strong sense of ARTIFICIAL light:

   1. Make well-composed and expressive photo using one of the lighting techniques discussed in class. Photo should have exceptionally strong quality of light.

   2. Lighting technique should be very obvious.

   3. This must be a documentary-style photo, do not manipulate the image in Photoshop.

   4. Do NOT USE A CAMERA FLASH!!!!!!!!!

   5. Lighting must be from an artificial light, such as a lamp or bulb. Can be indoors or outdoors, day or night.

   6. Keep in mind some of the elements of good composition, avoiding; cluttered and distracting backgrounds, objects appearing behind heads, dead space, etc. Fill the frame, making interesting photos that have impact.

   7. Composition, perspective, background, and lens selection should all be taken into consideration. Consider the various lighting techniques discussed in class; directional light, soft light, window light, back light, etc.

Photo 2: A documentary photo of some aspect of college life with strong sense of NATURAL light:

   1. Make well-composed and expressive photo using one of the lighting techniques discussed in class. Photo should have exceptionally strong quality of light.

   2. Lighting technique should be very obvious.

   3. This must be a documentary-style photo, do not manipulate the image in Photoshop.

   4. Do NOT USE A CAMERA FLASH!!!!!!!!!

   5. Lighting must be natural; sun, or cloudy day. Can be indoors or outdoors.

   6. Keep in mind some of the elements of good composition, avoiding; cluttered and distracting backgrounds, objects appearing behind heads, dead space, etc. Fill the frame, making interesting photos that have impact.

   7. Composition, perspective, background, and lens selection should all be taken into consideration. Consider the various lighting techniques discussed in class; directional light, soft light, window light, back light, etc.

Review examples showed in class and Power Point Presentation.

*Students must complete:

1. Select best photo from each part, submit (2) photos.

2. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:

Last name_natural.jpg

Last name_artificial.jpg

EXAMPLE:

franklin_natural.jpg

franklin_artificial.jpg

3. Be sure to caption photos.

4. Submit  to drop folder

WEEK 4 Fall 2012

photo by Jake Silverman

Agenda for today's class.

1. Time Lightbox; Pictures of the week
2. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #3, SELECTIVE FOCUS
3. Lesson; Composition
4.  Steve McCurry; Magnum -good examples of composition
5. William Albert Allard -good composition
6. ASSIGNMENT #4, Composition
7. ASSIGNMENT, Photojournalist Paper
8. 6. Photo essay; “"Bound to El Norte: Immigrant Stowaways on the Freight Trains of Mexico," by Don Bartletti

By now, we should be well aware of the technical considerations that determine a photograph, such as aperture, shutter speed, lens selection, and camera types. You should also be familiar with the categories of the"Visual language."
So, what can your determine in looking at these three iconic images? Depth of Field, motion control, focus, lens selection, visual language, etc.

Charles Moore's photo from the Civil Rights movement in the 1960's.

Eddie Adams won the Pulitzer Prize for for his picture of a Viet Cong lieutenant being executed at close range on a Saigon street by a South Vietnamese general.

How about this Diane Arbus image?


Jerome Delay's iconic image from Iraq, as hundreds of Iraqis storm the Abu Ghraib jail Oct. 20, 2002 following the announcement by President Saddam Hussein that most of Iraq's prisoners would be freed. Tens of thousands of prisoners were greeted by their relatives and friends upon their release.

Misc.
Be sure to review the Powerpoint Presentations, they contain material not always covered in class, due to time restriction.