Quick Announcement: First Dollars & Sense meeting next Thursday at 1pm in the journalism department’s conference room. There will be pizza! Come check it out.
DSLR Camera Workshop
First, everyone will check out a camera for the semester. You will use this for the photo essay assignment and then again toward the end of the semester for your video assignment. There are enough for each person to keep one out for the whole semester. Please make sure to take good care of it! Any lost or broken pieces will need to be replaced by you.
We’ll take some time to play with the settings and get the hang of where all the controls on the camera are located.
In-Class Practice Assignment: Photo Scavenger Hunt
Go out and take 8-10 thoughtfully-composed images that capture some of the following elements of composition. Some of these will inevitably contain multiple elements, and that’s fine. You want to end up with a final edit of 8-10 images, which means you will need to take more photos than that and then decide which are your strongest.
Contrasting colors
Monochromatic colors
Symmetry
Pattern
Rule of thirds
Close-up detail shot
Shallow depth of field
Portrait
Dramatic/beautiful/interesting use of light
Slow shutter speed
Internal framing
Movement
Decisive moment
Layers telling a story
Dramatic perspective (shooting from high up or from low to the ground)
If you are happy with your photos by the end of class time, great; you can submit the photos to me and you won’t have any homework other than coming up with your pitch, which (as a reminder) is due next class. If you want to take a little more time with the photos, that’s fine; send them to me via WeTransfer.com by class time next Thursday.