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Multimedia Storytelling JOUR 203

The document discusses composition and Photoshop techniques for photojournalism. It covers concepts like finding a clear center of interest or point of entry, filling the frame, avoiding distractions, using diagonals, layering foreground and background, incorporating color, repetition, surprise, framing, and capturing the decisive moment. It also provides tips on cropping photos and color correction. Students are assigned to crop and color correct some of their photos and their homework is to take three portraits of a stranger, faculty member or athlete that reveal something about the subject.

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Multimedia Storytelling JOUR 203

The document discusses composition and Photoshop techniques for photojournalism. It covers concepts like finding a clear center of interest or point of entry, filling the frame, avoiding distractions, using diagonals, layering foreground and background, incorporating color, repetition, surprise, framing, and capturing the decisive moment. It also provides tips on cropping photos and color correction. Students are assigned to crop and color correct some of their photos and their homework is to take three portraits of a stranger, faculty member or athlete that reveal something about the subject.

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Multimedia Storytelling JOUR 203

Click to edit Master subtitle style Week 6 More on Composition; Photoshop Basics Jeff Young [email protected]

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Event Photo Critiques

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Get closer!

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Always Remember Rule of Thirds

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More on Composition

What makes a good photograph?

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Luck

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More on Composition
Find

a clear center of interest.

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More on Composition
Find

a clear center of interest.

Another

way to look at it: have a point of entry.

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Have a Point of Entry

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More on Composition
Fill

the Frame

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Fill the Frame

Chinese paramilitary policemen take their breakfast with snow before shovelling snow from a road where a 4/22/12

More on Composition
Watch

out for distracting elements (or cut off limbs)

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More on Composition
Diagonals=good

(for some reason, diagonals are more visually interesting).

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Kuwait City airport employees wipe the sand from the red carpet during a sand storm before the arrival of France's President Nicolas Sarkozy in Kuwait February 11, 4/22/12 2009.

Diagonals=good

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Diagonals=good

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Layering

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ForegroundBackground

N.Y. police officers receive instructions as they stand near protesters sleeping at Zocatti park, where they are camping out, before demonstrating outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) September 21, 2011. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz)

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Color

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Repetition

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Surprise

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Framing

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Decisive Moment

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AP Visual Checklist
Is

the image active or passive?

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AP Visual Checklist
Is Is

the image active or passive?

the photograph of something no one has ever seen before or is it a unique or interesting photo of something everyone has seen?

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AP Visual Checklist
Is Is

the image active or passive?

the photograph of something no one has ever seen before or is it a unique or interesting photo of something everyone has seen? the photo style and the writing style consistent?

Are

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AP Visual Checklist
Is Is

the image active or passive?

the photograph of something no one has ever seen before or is it a unique or interesting photo of something everyone has seen? the photo style and the writing style consistent? the photo communicate quicker, stronger, better or more
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Are

Does

AP Visual Checklist
Does

the photo have visual content or stop short at story elevation?

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AP Visual Checklist
Does Does

the photo have visual content or stop short at story elevation? the photo go beyond the trite and the obvious?

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AP Visual Checklist
Does Does Does

the photo have visual content or stop short at story elevation? the photo go beyond the trite and the obvious? the photo contain essential information to help the reader understand the story?

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AP Visual Checklist
Does Does Does

the photo have visual content or stop short at story elevation? the photo go beyond the trite and the obvious? the photo contain essential information to help the reader understand the story? the photo have enough impact to move the reader?
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Does

AP Visual Checklist
Does Does Does

the photo have visual content or stop short at story elevation? the photo go beyond the trite and the obvious? the photo contain essential information to help the reader understand the story? the photo have enough impact to move the reader?
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Does

AP Visual Checklist
Does

the caption information answer who, what, when, where and why?

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AP Visual Checklist
Does Does

the caption information answer who, what, when, where and why? the photo communicate effectively? Photos should move, excite, entertain, inform or help the readers understand a story

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Cropping
Crop

ruthlessly. Cut out anything thats not essen5al to the picture, so that the readers afen5on wont be distracted or wasted. Edmond Arnold, newspaper design pioneer

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Cropping
...

but preserve the mood.Mindless cropping can ruin a pictures intent by elimina5ng parts that gave it its mood.

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Cropping Demo

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Color Correction
Auto

Color Correct:

ImageAdjustments Auto Color

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Color Correction
Brightness/Contrast:

Image Adjustments Brightness/Contrast

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Color Correction
Variations:

Image Adjustments Variations

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Color Correction
Levels:

Image Adjustments Levels

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In-Class Exercise
Crop and/or color correct 3 of the 6 photos you have turned in so far.

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Homework
Photo

Assignment #2 (100 points): "Portraits" Find a stranger, faculty member, athlete or coach, and take three distinctly different portraits that say something about the subjects life, profession, major, personality, background, etc.

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And Due 2 Weeks From Now...


Final Project Proposal
Must

include: Format you plan to use. (video or audio slideshow) Story arc and hook Types of people who will appear Proposed headline for the piece Expected run 5me
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