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Journalism 2300:
Week Three
February 11, 2013
Announcements
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Extra Credit:
More Words Matter!
To be a better photographer…
…you need to take a lot of photos!
The week in pictures
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MSNBC:
– http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/
Let’s turn in textbook quizzes
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What surprised you?
Let’s look at your photos
Overall excellent start!
• Composition: Photos need to tell the story
• Get in the habit of taking photos from all angles:
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– Overall, medium, close-up
– Pick best shot for future assignments
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Lighting important:
– Time of day
– Backlighting, shadows
– Correct exposure
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Put final shot first in album
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Need a focal point
Crop your photos: Eliminate dead space
Soft: Out of focus
– Usually want your focal point sharp: in focus
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Night photography: tough to hold camera
steady without a tripod
Depth of field:
– Infinity in overall shots
– Closeups: limited depth of field
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Remember: Constructive criticism!!!
What’s a caption?
See pages 147-153
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Who:
– Need names or detailed description
– Need last names
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What:
– What’s happening in photo
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When:
– Time element important
Day of week, time of day
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Where:
– Location
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Why:
– Importance of shot
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How:
– Explanations as needed
How to use AP Stylebook
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Stylebook Key
– Addresses:
Is this correct? 25 East Silver St.
– Spellings:
Adviser/advisor; Legislative titles
Sports Guidelines and Style
• Business Guidelines and Style
• A Guide to Punctuation
• Editing Marks
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Don’t memorize, familiarize!
Let’s look at the photographs!
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https://picasaweb.google.com/115943674
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Go to http://www.d.umn.edu/~lkragnes
Let’s look for……
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Working at your table in groups of 2:
– Best photo that fulfills assignment
– Strongest caption
– Strongest: Overall, Middle, close-up
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Can rewrite captions for assignment due
tonight!
Common style areas
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Dates
Months
Numerals
Titles
Addresses
Chapter 4: Features
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What’s a feature photograph?
– Way to play up average citizens in
circumstances other than accidents/tragedies
– “movements in time worth freezing forever”
What’s the difference between
features and news?
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Timelessness
– Keep holding power longer
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Slice of life
– Records everyday story in a new way
– Kids always good!
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Photographers generate own assignments
– Enterprise
“Featurizing” the news
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Main story: Event such as a fire
Feature photo: Fireman with a kitten
Emotional impact
– Viewers reaction important
Where to find features photos
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Kids, animals and nuns in habits?
– Get permission from parents when
photographing children
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The incongruous
– Things that look out of place
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Animals acting like people
First and last events
– First haircut, coach’s final game
Keep a fresh eye; take a candid
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Go to a new place, explore first
impressions
Drive around/take bus to a new area of
town
– “If you think you should stop, stop.”
Eagle
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Think like a visual anthropologist
Constantine Manos
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Where’s Boston?
– Shot 500 rolls of black-and-white and color
film for this 40-projector slide show
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Never posed/arranged photos
Introduced himself: Didn’t sneak up
http://www.costamanos.com/
Henri Cartier-Bresson
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Considered father of candid photography
Popped up, took photograph and kept on
walking
http://www.henricartierbresson.org/hcb/h
ome_en.htm
Is it OK to photograph strangers?
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Emily Nottingham research:
– “From Both Sides of the Lens: Street
Photojournalism and Personal Space”
– 86 percent of people approached by
photographers agreed to be photographed
– Forming a relationship = better results
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You decide what’s best approach for you
Where to look?
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Public Relations person
Find a unique angle
22 ways to find a feature:
– Column on page 79
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Where can a photographer take photos?
– P. 393
Major Assignment I: Due 2/18
Features photograph assignments
• Get more comfortable looking for news photos
• Let’s brainstorm possible ideas for features
photographs
• Shoot from a variety of angles: above, down low
Using Picasa, send a link with your best photo to:
[email protected]
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William H. Irvin
• Enger Tower
• Park Point
• Skyline Parkway
• Lakewalk
• Dewitt Seitz Bldg
• YMCA
• Madill Dance Center
• Rose Garden
• Playfront
• Zoo
• Churches
• Neighborhood
• Animal Allies
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Lighthouse
• 4th Street/Portland Square
• Chester Bowl
• Skating rink
• Miller Hill Mall
• Damiano Center
• Washington Street
Galleries
• Norway Hall
• Aquarium
• Spirit Mountain
• Fitgers
• Billings Park
• Lester Park
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In-class assignment
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You need to select your strongest of the
three bus hub photographs and resubmit
it with a complete caption. You can also
crop the photograph, etc., as needed
Picasa 3: Editing, selecting photos
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Set up Google Account: google.com
Go to: http://picasa.google.com/
Download Picasa 3
Upload photographs
Under File menu, select New Album
Type in Date/name of assignment
Select photos, drag to the album you created
Edit photos, put the final photo selection first in album
Select the final photo, and write cutline where it says:
Write a caption!
NOTE: Add full name to the end of the caption
Sharing album with me
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Select the album you want to share
Click on the Share button on upper right
side of the album screen
Sign in to your Google account
In the Share Photos screen, in the To: box
type [email protected]
Carry your camera with you!