The OTHER Blog

As a reminder, there's another blog I run for all photojournalists, particularly students - the UGA Photojournalism blog. It has info on industry news, local events, tips and tricks of the trade - including info on Thursday night's speaker.

ASSIGNMENT: 36 Faces

Time to get over being shy ...

For Wednesday, September 3, you need to shoot 36 different people. These need to be shot vertically, with the tops of the shoulders showing to just above their heads. (Examples to the right.) Shoot the first 12 people at 75 mm, the next 12 at 50 mm and the last group at 28 mm. 

Pay attention to your exposure meter - make sure you're getting a proper quantity of light and that your exposure makes sense for what you're shooting. (High enough shutter speed? Enough depth of field or too much?) Shoot several frames of each person so you have a few different expressions. 

Shoot outdoors, paying attention to where the light is coming from and what's in the background. Do not do this indoors - you'll be miserable trying to get things sharp. (Note that you cannot judge sharpness on the screen on the back of the camera. Everything looks sharp, and it might not be.)

For the captions, you need their name, age, home town, major or job title and one piece of contact information (phone number or email address). In your note book, write down their shirt color, as well - this will make confirming names easier. 

I would take some time Tuesday to type up your captions and then email them to yourself - you'll be able to copy and paste them very quickly then.

We'll download your images in class on Wednesday (a whole new set of buttons to push).

Questions? Fire away.

Open Lab Hours

The photojournalism lab will be open for the hours listed below throughout the semester. This lab is set up for your use only - it is not open to non-photojournalism students.

Monday - 3:30-6:30

Tuesday - 12:30-2:00

Thursday - 11:30-4:30

Friday - 12:30-4:30

ASSIGNMENT: More Clips and Re-reading

For Wednesday, August 27, please bring in three clips (mounted and annotated) that show the best news, sports and feature photo you can find. You should be looking to daily newspapers and weekly newsmagazines for these images - please avoid non-news magazines. 

If you struggled with the exposure section of the book, you may want to re-read that before Monday, as well. We'll be going over that in a lot of depth on Monday, so a refresher would be a good idea.

The UGA bookstore has, for some unknown reason, ordered two different books and placed them on the shelf for this class. The book you need is the National Geographic Photography Field Guide, not the "ultimate" guide, I'd never seen that before someone brought it into class.

Not sure what's going on at the bookstore, the ordered the wrong book for my other class, as well. 

ASSIGNMENT: Clips and Reading

For Wednesday, August 20, please bring in three clips from recent newspapers or news magazines that show what you think are a good news photo, a bad news photo and one you have questions about.

Please cut them out and neatly tape them to a sheet of paper with your name and one or two sentences about the image. We'll discuss these in class.

Please read the first 75 pages of the text book, The National Geographic Photography Field Guide, as well. 

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