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The document discusses assignments for a photojournalism class, including quizzes, collecting extra credit, surveys, and a final exam on Tuesday. It provides tips for taking photos, such as capturing emotion, getting faces rather than backs, using different angles, focusing on people rather than objects, and avoiding blurry or crowded shots. Students are instructed to bring a blank CD for a SoundSlides lab and 10-20 photos from campus on a flash drive.

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Lecture15 090728231439 Phpapp01 PDF

The document discusses assignments for a photojournalism class, including quizzes, collecting extra credit, surveys, and a final exam on Tuesday. It provides tips for taking photos, such as capturing emotion, getting faces rather than backs, using different angles, focusing on people rather than objects, and avoiding blurry or crowded shots. Students are instructed to bring a blank CD for a SoundSlides lab and 10-20 photos from campus on a flash drive.

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July 29, 2009

Jennifer Cox
 Quizzes – ouch…

 Collect extra credit

 Surveys

 Sounslides lab – bring a blank CD

 Final on Tuesday
 Photojournalism is about capturing the human
experience and making your own art; not just
capturing the creations of others

 Look at the good, the bad and the ugly

 Examples of good pictures are posted on the


blog
 Try to avoid posed pictures
 Try to capture emotion
 Get faces; not backs
 Identify the star of the picture
 Get up close!
 Let your picture tell a story
 Use different angles
 Avoid inanimate objects; focus on people
 Don’t crowd the picture
 Action, good; blurry, bad!
 Use the “Rule of Thirds”
 Try different things
 Inanimate objects tend to be boring; always try
to include people

 No pictures of buildings, cars, etc.

 Don’t just photograph a sculpture; photograph


someone looking at the sculpture with an
expressive look on his/her face
 For Monday: read SoundSlides post on the
blog

 Lab 11: bring in a blank disc

 Lab 11: bring in 10-20 photographs from


around the campus on a flash drive

 Today’s PowerPoint will be posted on the blog

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