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