SP '10 WEEK 12

Detroit Foreclosures by Bruce Gilden
Multimedia presentation on the effects of the foreclosure crisis in Detroit, Michigan.

SUBMIT FINAL PROJECT PHOTOS:
Place in DROP folder. Be sure to slug them correctly:
lastname_finalproject01.jpg

For next week:
1. Be sure to review these examples of good multimedia, see below.
2. Study list of MULTIMEDIA TUTORIAL LINKS, see below.
3. Continue to shoot your subject, and edit. You should be at least 3 weeks into your project.
4. Submit new photos to the DROP folder.
5. Check GRADED ASSIGNMENTS folder, be sure all submitted work has been graded.
6. Only two-weeks remaining. May 10th is last class. All projects due.
7. See new extra credit assignment, ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAITS.

Good examples of Multimedia

The Last Days of W, by Alec Soth/Magnum
Washington DC, Center of a Nation, by Paolo Pellegrin/Magnum
Stories from Iowa, by By Danny Wilcox Frazier
Aging in America, by Ed Kashi
Love in the First Person, by Matt Eich
Kingsley's Crossing, Olivier Jobard
Undying Love, by Patrick Davison
1976, by RJD2. leftchannel, MediaStorm

good MULTIMEDIA TUTORIAL LINKS

INTERVIEW TIPS
VOICE-OVER TIPS
iMOVIE HD TUTORIAL
SOUNDSLIDES TUTORIAL
AUDACITY AUDIO EDITOR TUTORIAL
VARIOUS RECORDING DEVICES

Ten ways to improve your multimedia production, by Media Storm.

ASSIGNMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAITS

ASSIGNMENT extra credit

(Due Monday Monday May 3rd)

ENVIRONMENTAL PORTRAITS two-parts

Part 1

Environmental Business Portrait

Make well-composed, expressive personality portrait of a person in their place of work environment. Photo should give insight into what the person does, product, if any, should be present. The environment should be obvious and explanatory. Make photos of subject in different positions, locations, etc.

· REMEMBER, THE PHOTOGRAPHER IS IN CONTROL

· SUBJECT SHOULD BE DIRECTED, POSED, AND WELL-LIT.

· This is NOT an action photo assignment.

· Find someone with a visual environment.

Part 2

Environmental Personality Portrait

Make well-composed, expressive personality portrait of a person in their personal environment.A roommate, sibling, parent are all good subjects for this assignment.

Photo should give insight into what the person is like and who they are.

The environment should be obvious and expressive.

Make photos of subject in different positions, locations, etc.

Submit (2) different photos from each, (4) total images.

1. Use flash if necessary.

2. Heavy emphasis on light; natural or flash. This photo should NOT have poor lighting, poor white balance, or noise.

3. Heavy emphasis on composition; there should be no sloppy images with inappropriate or distracting objects within the frame.

Photographer may manipulate subject during the photo session.

*Students must complete:

1. Select (2) best photos from each, (4) total, see above requirements.

2. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:

EXAMPLE: franklin_env01.jpg, franklin_env02.jpg,

franklin_env03.jpg, franklin_env04.jpg

3. Place images in the “drop folder.”

SP '10 WEEK 11

-photo by Diane Arbus

Monday 4/19 is Exam Day, please arrive on-time. No make-up exams.

• -review all the Power Point Presentations. Especially if you were absent.
• -Be aware that many of the PPP’s contained more material than we discussed in class.
• -visit web sites/links listed in the PPP’s & BLOG.
• -review all entries on the class blog this semester: http://ramapophotoj.blogspot.com/
• NPPA CODE OF ETHICS -study
• -make sure you have completed all the reading assignments.
• -be sure you understand each shooting assignment & different types of photos.
• -review all photo essays discussed\assigned in class, and those in the PPP’s.
• -be familiar with important photographers, agencies, publications, discussed in class.
• -Read & study all docs in PHOTOGRAPHER’s BIO’s folder.
• -Know their names, their work, their era (no dates), why they are important.

Also, submit your edited Final Project photos to the DROP folder, slug: lastname_finalproject.jpg

FOR NEXT WEEK:

• only 3 weeks remaining.
• Bring in more final project photos.
• Everyone should be at least halfway done with shooting portion of project.
• Submit proposal if you have not done so, or if your subject has changed.
• **Remember, no matter how strong your photos are, this project MUST reflect 4-6 weeks of work.
• Submit your edited Final Project photos to the DROP folder, just keep adding a new number after the slug.
• slug: lastname_finalproject01.jpg, lastname_finalproject02.jpg, etc
  

SP '10 WEEK 10

photo by Elliott Erwitt / Magnum

AGENDA

1. ASSIGNMENT #09 Illustration
2. Let's look, Soundslide, ASSIGNMENT #09 SOUNDSLIDE TOWN
3. History of Photojournalism; W. Eugene Smith, Elliott Erwitt, Eddie Adams, Charles Moore, James Nachtwey, see PPP.
   
4. Final Project , lets see
   
5. War Photographer, James Nachtwey

FOR NEXT WEEK:

1. EXAM NEXT WEEK: starts 6pm sharp, no make-up exams will be given.
   
2. War Photographer, ; finish watching the film.
3. FINAL PROJECTS: get working, put 15-25 new images in the Drop for next week.
4. CATCH-UP: submit ALL missed assignments and red-do's.
5. STUDY: FINAL SALUTE, By Todd Heisler

6. PHOTOGRAPHER LECTURE: Prof Lipkin presents, Andy Levin is going to come to 
   Ramapo to show his images from the Haiti earthquake and talk Thursday 
   the 15th of April.
   

7. 
   
8. NPPA CODE OF ETHICS -study
9. EXAM NEXT WEEK: starts 6pm sharp.

• -No make-up exams.
• -review all the Power Point Presentations. Especially if you were absent.
• -Be aware that many of the PPP’s contained more material than we discussed in class.
• -visit web sites/links listed in the PPP’s & BLOG.
• -review all entries on the class blog this semester: http://ramapophotoj.blogspot.com/
• -make sure you have completed all the reading assignments.
• -be sure you understand each shooting assignment & different types of photos.
• -review all photo essays discussed\assigned in class, and those in the PPP’s.
• -be familiar with important photographers, agencies, publications, discussed in class.
• -Read & study all docs in PHOTOGRAPHER’s BIO’s folder.
• -Know their names, their work, their era (no dates), why they are important.

FINAL PROJECT

FINAL PROJECT
Photo essay & Soundslide
DUE LAST CLASS 5/10/10, 8pm sharp -no exceptions.

What to submit:
PART 1
15-20 of your best images, in order that you choose, that best tells the story.

1. Edit, caption, and slug these images as per usual, and submit to the drop.
2. Be sure your first image has a short story summary in the caption field.
3. SLUG: lastname_final01.jpg, lastname_final02.jpg, etc.
4. Photoshop & size each image properly (less than 2mb each)
5. Make sure you've submitted a written proposal.
   

PART 2 (SOUNDSLIDE)
Rename the "publish to web folder" lastname_soundslide, and submit just this folder.

1. Do NOT submit the entire soundslide project.
2. Be sure you've tested your soundslide before you submit (play the INDEX file).
3. You will not receive credit for any projects that do not play.
4. Be sure each image has a caption.
5. Make sure all the info fields are filled in; Headline, caption, etc.
6. Give credit to any music you use.
7. Use an opening slide with text if you can.
8. KEEP IT UNDER 3 MINUTES.
   

FINAL PROJECT
The Final Project is a 4-6 week project that requires each student to spend significant time with a chosen subject, to produce a well-crafted, in-depth photo essay. The Photo Essay is equivalent to a Final Exam.

Each student must submit a written proposal; which must meet the requirements of the assignment and approval by the instructor.

The Final Project is NOT a single event or photo shoot. It should be about a subject of social importance and worthy of a 4-6 week essay. The essay should tell a story.
Each student must develop their essay on a week-to-week basis, and bring photos in each week for critique.

The final essay will consist of an 15-20 images submitted to the DROP folder, as well as a finished slideshow with audio.

The Final Project makes 25% of your grade and is due the final week.


Due Monday March 28th
WRITTEN PROPOSAL FOR FINAL PROJECT / Photo Essay

Each student must submit a well-written, thoroughly planned proposal (250 words or 3-4 paragraphs). The proposal must be an examined, well-planned, and strongly supported idea.
Your proposal will be evaluated and part pf your grade.
Select a story idea, theme, or subject that will be both interesting and visual. You will need to photograph this subject in various stages over the final 4-5 weeks, so make it something good! Something you can spend time with and revisit multiple times.
It should be a subject worthy of a photo essay. Think of some of the work we have reviewed in class. It must also be accessible to you. Don’t select a subject that you can’t get to each week, select an idea that is do-able.
Do NOT select an uninteresting and simplistic subject, such as; my roommate, my dog, or my girlfriend/boyfriend. Select something that has substance, something complex that can be revisited many times and in different ways.

The proposal should outline in detail 4-5 different aspects that you can document, not just one thing repeated each week. This how real photojournalists get their work published. They pitch story ideas to editors. Each story proposal usually has to be approved by a series of editors, and a poorly throughout proposal will quickly dismissed by an editor.



REQUIREMENTS:

-The Final Project is due
Monday May 10th at 8pm. During FINAL CLASS, attendance required.

PART 1
The final edit must be submitted to the DROP folder.
-Each project must consist of at least 15 different images, no more than 20.
-Project should include at least one: vertical, detail, and overall.
-At least (8) photos must contain people.
-Each image must be captioned properly in File Info.
-The first image in your series MUST have a brief summary of your project, in addition to the caption. 2-3 sentences, be brief and concise.
-Each image must be slugged properly
(lastname_final 01.jpg, lastname_final 02.jpg, etc
-Each image must be cropped, toned, sized, etc in Photoshop
-Each image should be sized to 10 inches at longest side, 200dpi
-Each image should be less than 2MGS. Save it at a lower compression if too big.
-Sequence your images in the best story telling manner.

PART 2
Create an audio slide show using SOUNDSLIDES.
This should consist of audio and photos.
Audio may be: subject; interview, ambient sound, narration, music, etc.

Project does not need to consist of all these audio elements, only those required to create an effective story-telling piece. Decide which is the best approach for your particular subject.

Use no more than 30 photos.
Keep the piece under 3-minutes.
Edit in SOUNDSLIDES.

* Be sure to start with opening title slide. If necessary include a brief explanatory text page. Check for typos and usage errors. Create in Photoshop or iMovie.
* If any additional credits are required, such as for music, be sure to give proper credit with a closing text slide at the end. Create in Photoshop or iMovie.
* Slug SS Project: lastname_finalproject
* Submit 1 SOUNDSLIDE folder
* Submit to the drop folder.



-YOU WILL BE GRADED ON WELL YOU MEET THESE REQUIREMENTS, AS WELL AS THE OVERALL IMPACT OF YOUR PHOTOS.

-PROJECT SHOULD REFLECT 4-5 WEEKS OF WORK.

PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY!

FINAL PROJECT CHECKLIST:
1. be sure you submitted to the DROP updated final proposal, if you changed topics.
Slug: franklin_finalproposal.doc
2. make sure all photos are captioned.
3. sequence photos, take special care to put photos in order.
4. slug photos properly.
5. Photoshop & size each image properly.
6. submit 15-20 final photos to the DROP when you are done
Slug: lastname_final01.jpg, lastname_final02.jpg, etc.

SP '10 WEEK 9

Life was the first all-photography U.S. news magazine and dominated the market for more than forty years. Life celebrated the "photo essay." Life was wildly successful for generations before its prestige was diminished by economics and changing tastes. Since 1972, Life has twice ceased publication and resumed in a different form, before ceasing once again with the issue dated April 20, 2007. Recently, the brand name continues on the Internet. -Wikipedia

AGENDA

1. History of Photojournalism; Joe Rosenthal, Robert Capa, Magnum
   
2. Photojournalism categories
3. Illustrations
   
4. ASSIGNMENT #08 Illustration
5. Discuss your Final Project ideas if uncertain. Proposal due today.
6. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #08 CITY or TOWN
7. Audio slideshows lesson
8. How to guides: Audacity, Soundslides
   

Upcoming:
Due Next week

1. ASSIGNMENT #8 Soundslide
2. ASSIGNMENT #9 Illustration
3. FINAL PROJECT PHOTOS? -put selects in DROP.
4. Exam 4/19/10 -no make-ups given

-No make-up exams.
-review all the Power Point Presentations. Especially if you were absent.
-Be aware that many of the PPP’s contained more material than we discussed in class.
-visit web sites/links listed in the PPP’s & BLOG.
-review all entries on the class blog this semester: http://ramapophotoj.blogspot.com/
-make sure you have completed all the reading assignments.
-be sure you understand each shooting assignment & different types of photos.
-review all photo essays discussed\assigned in class, and those in the PPP’s.
-be familiar with important photographers, agencies, publications, discussed in class.
-Read & study all docs in PHOTOGRAPHER’s BIO’s folder.
-Know their names, their work, their era (no dates), why they are important.

ASSIGNMENT #08 SOUNDSLIDE FOR CITY OR TOWN (PART 3)

ASSIGNMENT #08 SOUNDSLIDE FOR CITY OR TOWN (PART 3)

(Due 4/12/10)

Complete audio slideshow of photo essay on a selected place.

PART 1:

READING:

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

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, ELLIOTT ERWITT, EDDIE ADAMS, CHARLES MOORE. DIANE ARBUS

PART 2.

Finish shooting and editing photos

PART 3

Write, record, edit narration for soundslide.

Incorporate music.

PART 4.

MAKE SOUNDLSLIDE

1. Title slide

2. Closing text slide, credits.

Include special text:

This multimedia presentation is not for publication. For educational purposes only.

3. Use music. Give credit at the end.

*FOR NEXT WEEK, students must submit:

1. Create Soundslide folder

2. SLUG FOLDER AS FOLLOWS:

Last name_townname

EXAMPLE: franklin_hoboken

3. Place project folder in the “drop folder.”

ASSIGNMENT #10 Illustration

(Due Monday April 12)

Part I:
Make an Illustration
Make an illustration for the following topic:

The War in Iraq has been a costly war.

Research and select one dimension of this military conflict that has been costly and make an illustrative image.
Remember, an illustration is a Non-Documentary photograph, and can be completely set up, manipulated, or orchestrated. Make the image has a message. Make sure it is executed with a clear preconceived visual solution.
The image’s message must be communicated clearly.
This is an opportunity to take an idea and transform it into a representative visual, with manipulated guidance. BE CREATIVE AND CONCEPTUAL.
Photo can be montage, multiple images, computer or darkroom altered images.
Image alteration is allowed, BUT not required.

*Students must complete:
1. Select (1) best photo.
2. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:
Last name_illustration.jpg EXAMPLE: franklin_ illustration.jpg
3. Place image in the “drop folder.”

PART II:
READING:
Visual Journalism
By Christopher Harris & Paul Martin Lester
Read pages 87-129 (see handout)
Documentary Assignments & Manipulated Assignments

PART III:
READING:
History of Photojournalism; ( see photographers bios or the Blog)
HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, ELLIOTT ERWITT, EDDIE ADAMS, CHARLES MOORE

SP '10 WEEK 8

photo by DOROTHEA LANGE / FSA

1. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #08 CITY or TOWN
2. History of Photojournalism; FSA, DOROTHEA LANGE and her MIGRANT MOTHER, WEEGEE, LIFE MAGAZINE
3. Proposal for your final project due.
4. Paper due
   
5. REMINDER: Exam 4/19/10 -no make-ups given.
   
6. National Geographic photo essays
7. Audio

ASSIGNMENT #08 CITY OR TOWN (PART 2)

(Due 4/5/10)
Photo essay on a selected place, continued

PART 1.
READING:
History of Photojournalism; ( see photographers bios or the Blog)
1. MAGNUM
2. ROBERT CAPA

PART 2.
Study National Geographic photo essays
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/archives.html

PART 3.
SHOOTING ASSIGNMENT
Continue shooting the interesting town, place, or neighborhood, in the manner of a National Geographic photo essay, see the "Places of a Lifetime."

Go to same location, but at a different time of day/night, as this is a multiple-week assignment. Explore the place, further and produce a diverse set of images.
Try to go at time of day/night when lighting is most dramatic; sunrise or early morning, sunset or late afternoon, or night time after dark.

Shoot photos at various times of the day and night. Use all the techniques and strategies we've discussed in class. Focus on the people, not just the places.
use your flash if necessary.

*FOR NEXT WEEK, students must submit:
1. Select (10-15) ADDITIONAL best photos.
2. Caption photos.
3. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:
Last name_townname_01.jpg, Last name_townname_02.jpg
EXAMPLE: franklin_ hoboken.jpg
4. Place images in the “drop folder.”

PART 4
Select a piece of music, original or not, and bring to class in MP3 format. WAVE files are OK also. Select and appropriate piece that goes well with you subject.

SP '10 WEEK #07

THOMAS E. FRANKLIN \ Great Falls in Paterson, NJ

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #7; ALBUM COVER; using Flash
2. Editing photos
3. Look at former students final projects
4. REMINDER: Photojournalist Paper
5. Due NEXT WEEK
6. Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture
7. Final Projects; submit proposal
   

VIDEO: At the Great Falls in Paterson, NJ

ASSIGNMENT #08 CITY OR TOWN

(Due 03/29/10) -Photo essay on a selected place

PART 1.

READING:

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

1. FSA

2. WEEGEE

3. LIFE MAGAZINE

PART 2

Log onto the National; Geographic website; "Places of a Lifetime."

Study some of the photo essays.

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/places/places-of-a-lifetime.html

PART 3

SHOOTING ASSIGNMENT

Select an interesting town, place, or neighborhood, and shoot a photo essay in the manner of a National Geographic photo essay, see the "places of a lifetime."

Be sure you select a location you can go back to next week, as this is a multiple-week assignment. Be sure you select a location that is visual and interesting. Explore the place, and produce a diverse set of images.

Shoot photos at various times of the day and night. Use all the techniques and strategies we've discussed in class. Focus on the people, not just the places.

use your flash if necessary.

*FOR NEXT WEEK, students must submit:

1. Select (10-15) best photos.

2. Caption photos.

3. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:

Last name_townname_01.jpg, Last name_townname_02.jpg

EXAMPLE: franklin_ hoboken.jpg

4. Place images in the “drop folder.”

LAUREN GREENFIELD -Girl Culture

Mirror, Mirror… by Lauren Greenfield click here

Girl Culture has been my journey as a photographer, as an observer of culture, as part of the media, as a media critic, as a woman, as a girl. These photographs are both very personal and very public. They are about what is private and what is public and where the line that divides the two lies, when that line exists at all anymore. They are about the popular culture we share and the way the culture leaves its imprint on individuals in their most public and private moments. They are about the girls I photographed. They are also about me. I was enmeshed in girl culture before I was a photographer, and I was photographing girl culture before I realized I was working on Girl Culture. In this work, I have been drawn to the pathological in the everyday. I am interested in the tyranny of the popular and thin girls over the ones who don’t fit that mold. I am interested in the competition suffered by the popular girls, and their sense that being popular is not as satisfying as it appears. I am interested in the costly and time-consuming beauty rituals that are an integral part of daily life. I am interested in the fact that to fall outside the ideal body type is to be a modern-day pariah. I am interested in how girls’ feelings of frustration, anger, and sadness are expressed in physical and self-destructive ways: controlling their food intake, cutting their bodies, being sexually promiscuous. Most of all, I am interested in the element of performance and exhibitionism that seems to define the contemporary experience of being a girl. These interests, my own memories, and a genuine love for girls, gossip, female bonding, and the idiosyncratic rituals of girl culture, have motivated this five-year photographic journey. There are girls and women in my photographs whom viewers may see as marginal or whose lives may be perceived as extreme. In effect, the popular culture has caused the ordinary to become inextricably intertwined with what to many seems extraordinary. Most girls are familiar with “marginal” experiences from television, magazines, and music. A suburban teenager says she would like to become an exotic dancer. A prepubescent girl mimics the sexualized moves and revealing clothing that she sees on MTV. Understanding the dialectic between the extreme and the mainstream—the anorexic and the dieter, the stripper and the teenager who bares her midriff or wears a thong—is essential to understanding contemporary feminine identity. The body has become the primary canvas on which girls express their identities, insecurities, ambitions, and struggles. It has become a palimpsest on which many of our culture’s conflicting messages about femininity are written and rewritten.
Photography is an ideal medium with which to explore the role of image in our culture. The camera renders an illusion of objective representation, just like a mirror. But as every woman knows, a mirror provides data that, filtered through a mind and moods, is subject to wildly differing interpretations. This project has been my mirror and my attempt to deconstruct the illusions that make up our reality. -Lauren Greenfield

More on Girl Culture:
Websiste
Interview Canada’s Sex TV
Project Fast Forward

SP '10 Week 6

photo by THOMAS E. FRANKLIN / The Record
LOCATION LIGHTING. Was a camera flash used in this photo, in mid-day sun?

TODAY'S AGENDA

1. Photos of the Week; MSNBC
   
2. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #5; Light
3. Due next week: ASSIGNMENT #6; Covering a Live Event
4. Lesson; LIGHT part II; Flash Use
5. History of Photojournalism; Jacob Riis & Lewis Hine
6. UPSTATE NY; Brenda Ann Kenneally
7. CROSSES; Carmine Galasso
8. DISCUSS: ideas for your final project for discussion.
9. Bring your camera to class next week, ready to use.

ASSIGNMENT #07 FLASH USE/ALBUM COVER

(Due 3/15/10)
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_flash00.jpg
EXAMPLE: franklin_ flash01.psd
franklin_ flash02.psd
5. Place images in the “drop folder.”

SP '09 WEEK #05

photo by THOMAS E. FRANKLIN / The Record
LOCATION LIGHTING. How was this photo lit and made to look like this?

TODAY'S AGENDA
1. Photos of the week, MSNBC
2. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #4, Composition
3. History of Photojournalism: Mathew Brady
4. Lesson; Covering a live assignment
5. Lesson; LIGHT part I
6. ASSIGNMENT #5; Lighting
7. ASSIGNMENT #6; Covering a Live Event
8. Photo essay; Eye of the Storm; Times-Picayune - NOLA.com

SP '10 ASSIGMENT Light

ASSIGNMENT #05
(Due 3/08/10)
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 photo of some aspect of college life with strong sense of NATURAL light,
this does NOT need to be documentary, can be passive:

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

NO CLASS

As I announced last week, there will be NO CLASS held this week 2/22.However, there is new lesson to be studied, and additional assignments. See below. Be sure to bring all assignments due, and to complete all the reading portions; there will be questions about the reading next week. Have a good week.
-TF

LESSON:
Covering a Live Event
ASSIGNMENT #6; Covering a Live Event

SPRING '10 ASSIGMENT #06; Live Event

ASSIGNMENT #06
(Due Monday MARCH 8TH –two 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 in the PHOTOGRAPHERS BIO's FOLDER:

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 two 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.

1.PUT ALL YOUR PHOTOS IN YOUR PUBLIC FOLDER
2. Select (5-8) different images must be submitted. Be sure to include:
-people in at least (4) photos.
-(1) over-all, scene setter.
-(1) detail or close up. Can be of a person. Make it relevant.
Do not select repetitive photos.

-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.

*Students must complete:

1. Select (5-8) best photos, including; an overall & detail. Do not select repetitive photos.
2. SLUG PHOTO AS FOLLOWS:
Last name_live event1.jpg Last name_ live event2.jpg
EXAMPLE: franklin_ live event1.jpg
franklin_ live event2.jpg
3. Place images in the “drop folder.”

SP '10 WEEK 4

photo by Marc Schauer

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?


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.

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?


Misc.

Could it be...that some submitted photos are not slugged correctly or contain proper captions....
Be sure caption explains which assignment it is.

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

Agenda for today's class.

1.Photos of the week; MSNBC
2. Let's look, ASSIGNMENT #3, SELECTIVE FOCUS
3. Lesson; Composition
4. ASSIGNMENT #4, Composition
5. ASSIGNMENT, Photojournalist Paper
6. Photo essay; “"Bound to El Norte: Immigrant Stowaways on the Freight Trains of Mexico," by Don Bartletti