Photojournalism lecture

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PHOTOGRAPHY July 29, 2009 Jennifer Cox

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PHOTOGRAPHYJuly 29, 2009Jennifer Cox

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Announcements Quizzes – ouch…

Collect extra credit

Surveys

Sounslides lab – bring a blank CD

Final on Tuesday

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Photojournalism 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

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Tips 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

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Try to avoid posed pictures

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Try to capture emotion

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Get faces; not backs

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Who is the star of the picture?

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Get up close!

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Let your pictures tell a story

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Let your pictures tell a story

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Use different angles/levels

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Inanimate objects 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

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Inanimate objects

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Don’t crowd the picture

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Action is exciting; blurry is not

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Use the Rule of Thirds

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Use the Rule of Thirds

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Try different things

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Some good examples

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Some good examples

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SoundSlides – need to know

You will be creating a slide show GOAL: to recruit high school students to

UF Take pictures that capture life at UF Have a theme – don’t be too scattered No need for journalistic captions; you’ll

be creating ad-like captions in lab We’ll look at examples on Monday

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Announcements 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