Quick Announcement: First Dollars & Sense meeting this Thursday at 1pm in the journalism department’s conference room:
Dear All,
Welcome (back) to a new semester at Baruch! My name is Caspar Gajewski, and I am a senior and the editor-in-chief of Dollars & Sense, the journalism department’s magazine. We are looking for new staff writers, editors and social media managers. While experience is beneficial, it is not required. We only ask that you come prepared to learn, publish and improve.
If you are pursuing a career in journalism, publishing matters. At Dollars & Sense, you will have the chance to explore voice, style and longer forms of writing. Alongside breaking news reporting, we publish features, profiles, reviews and longform Q&As. Original pitches are welcome, we encourage them, but all that classwork you’ve done? That can be submitted, too! Don’t let your hard work languish in a folder on your computer.
Our first meeting is this upcoming Thursday, the 14th, from 1-2 p.m. in conference room 7-268, which is inside the journalism department on the 7th floor of the vertical campus. We cannot wait to see you there.
Sincerely,
Caspar Gajewski
Editor-in-Chief
Pitch Workshop, Continued
If we didn’t get to your pitch last class, you’ll have an opportunity to pitch your photo essay today at the top of the class.
DSLR Camera Hands-On Workshop
We’ll take some time to play with the camera 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 other homework. 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 on Thursday. We will be using them in a photo editing workshop, so please make sure the photos are accessible to you on the Studio H computers that day (either send them to yourself or bring in your memory card.)
Your photo essays will be due on Thursday, October 5.