No Clips for Wednesday, Feb. 27

No need to bring in clips this week, will post requirements for next week's on Wednesday.

Remember to have your Campus Scene photo on the server by 5 p.m. on Friday. Also be sure to bring your camera to all classes this week, we may do some in-class shooting exercises.

ASSIGNMENT: Campus Scene

DUE: Friday, Feb. 29 at 5 p.m. (for review in class on Monday, March 3)

Sometimes called feature photos or enterprise photos, these are stand-alone images that can really get to the heart of a community. They tell smaller stories, slices of life and there are some photographers who are absolute masters at these.

There are two ways of approaching this: wandering and hunting. The former is the more common and less successful way of doing this. You wander around, hoping something interesting just happens to happen right in front of you.

Yeah, it's a very low percentage way of getting good feature photos.

The better way is what David Labelle refers to as hunting (he even wrote two books on it that are amazingly good). It's about planning ahead, knowing where you're going to find great moments, great stories. It involves reading everything and talking to everyone. And leaving your business card with everybody you meet, asking them to call you.

So, your assignment: One amazingly great photo from this campus. Tell me a story, share a piece of someone's life, in just one frame. This is all about moment.


Somethings to look at for more ideas:

The National Press Photographers Association runs an annual Best of Photojournalism competition where there is an Enterprise category.

The University of Missouri runs the Pictures of the Year competition and they have a Feature Picture category you can browse though. (Although that first photo is more of a Spot News image than a Feature, to me.)

ASSIGNMENT: Light

Due on the server by 5 p.m. on Friday, February 22: One photo that shows the beauty of light.

PLEASE NOTE: Set the White Balance to the Sun setting ("WB" button on the back of camera, rotate dial from AWB to the sun icon) - or else all your beautiful color will get wiped out.

Remember we shoot news photos - you need to be thinking about what types of images newspapers run. People and moments are needed.

Clips for Wednesday, February 20, should be one each of hard light, soft light and diffused light.

Assignment: Reading

Please read pages 134-159 and 174-253 in the National Geographic book for Wednesday. (And bring your clips in from last week.)

UPDATED :: Assignment: Four Scenes

Due: Monday, February 4 (Which means you'll have to turn it in by 5 p.m. on Friday, February 1, when the lab closes.) Download your cards, batch captioning and renaming them, burn them to CDs and bring to class on Monday.

Four photos of the same scene. Two should be shot at 28 mm, one at f/2.8 and the other stopped down to at least f/8.0 (preferably more). Then, back up and shoot the same basic composition at 75 mm, again at f/2.8 and stopped down to at least f/8.0 (preferably more).

Be cognizant of your shutter speed when you shoot the stopped-down image, don't let it fall below 1/60 of a second.

Found: Blue Notebook

In the lab after Wednesday's class. If it's yours, let me know. I'll be in my office Thursday morning, in the lab between 11 and noon.

Assignment: Wednesday Clips

For Wednesday, Jan. 30, please bring in seven clips hitting the following things we discussed in class:

• Rule of Thirds
• Leading Lines
• Framing
• Filling the Frame
• Use of Negative Space
• Shallow Depth of Field
• Extensive Depth of Field