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Slice Class: Week 4: Visual Thinking, Shot Variety, Photo Ethics, Cap Ons Jeff Young
Slice Class: Week 4: Visual Thinking, Shot Variety, Photo Ethics, Cap Ons Jeff Young
Visual Thinking, Shot Variety, Photo Ethics,
Cap<ons
Jeff Young
jryoung@gmail.com
Profile Cri<ques
Profile Cri<ques
• Try to equalize levels
Profile Cri<ques
• Try to equalize levels
• Don’t be afraid to layer sound
Mul<media News of the Week
Photojournalism Slice
"The camera is an instrument that
teaches people how to see
without a camera." ‐‐ Dorothea
Lange
What Photo Editors Look For
• Joe Elbert (Washington Post Photo editor)’s
4 major categories:
What Photo Editors Look For
• Joe Elbert (Washington Post Photo editor)’s
4 major categories:
#1 Informa(onal: Who, What, Why, When,
Where, How
• This undated photo released by the Egyp<an Supreme Council of An<qui<es in
Cairo, Egypt, Sunday Feb. 28, 2010, shows the newly unearthed 3,400‐year old red
granite head, part of a huge statue of the ancient pharaoh Amenhotep III, at the
pharaoh's mortuary temple in the city of Luxor. Egypt's Culture Ministry says a
team of Egyp<an and European archaeologists has unearthed a large head made
of red granite of an ancient pharaoh who ruled Egypt some 3,400 years ago.
(AP Photo/ Supreme Council of An9qui9es)
What Photo Editors Look For
• Joe Elbert (Washington Post Photo editor)’s
4 major categories:
#2 Graphic: Aaempt to make the mundane
interes<ng through composi<on
What Photo Editors Look For
• Joe Elbert (Washington Post Photo editor)’s
4 major categories:
#3 Emo(onal: Cause viewer to feel something
about the subject
What Photo Editors Look For
• Joe Elbert (Washington Post Photo editor)’s
4 major categories:
#4 In(mate: Make viewer feel close to the
situa<on or subject
Shot Variety
Shot Variety
• Overall shot
Shot Variety
• Overall shot
• Medium shot
Shot Variety
• Overall shot
• Medium shot
• Close‐up shot
Shot Variety
• Overall shot
• Medium shot
• Close‐up shot
• High/low‐angle shot
Composi<on
Rule of Thirds
Rule of Thirds
Rule of Thirds
Wrong Way
Ligh<ng
Ligh<ng
• Main light source should generally be behind
you.
Ligh<ng
• Main light source should generally be behind
you.
• Don’t photograph someone in front of a
window (same rule really)
Photo Ethics
3 Basic Approaches:
Photo Ethics
3 Basic Approaches:
#1 U<litarian: “The greatest good for the
greatest number of people.”
Photo Ethics
3 Basic Approaches:
#2 Absolu<st: Strict/fundamental about beliefs.
i.e. “People have the right to privacy.”
Photo Ethics
3 Basic Approaches:
#3 The Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.”
Photo Ethics
Don’t stage anything!
Photo Ethics (Digital)
Photo Ethics (Digital)
Pyramids were
squeezed together
digitally to fit the
cover's ver<cal
format
Photo Ethics (Digital)
Photo Ethics (Digital)
Clouds were
“cloned” in
Photoshop to
make it look more
severe than it
was.
Cap<ons
• Start with the most newsworthy, inters<ng, or
unusual facts.
Cap<ons
• Start with the most newsworthy, interes<ng,
or unusual facts.
• Start with the picture at hand.
Cap<ons
AP Cap(on Style (3 rules):
#1 First sentence describes what the photo
shows, in the present tense, and states where
and when the photo was made (i.e. Friday,
March 5, 2010)
Cap<ons
AP Cap(on Style (3 rules):
#2 The second sentence gives background on
the news event or describes why the photo is
significant.
Cap<ons
AP Cap(on Style (3 rules):
#3 S<ck to two sentences if at all possible, while
including relevant informa<on. Try to
an<cipate what a newspaper editor or reader
will need.
Cap<ons
4 th rule
#4 End with photo credit informa<on.
Photographer and affilia<on in parentheses.
Example: (U of M Photo/Jeff Young)
Lolo, a black Jaguar, plays
with her newborn spoaed
cub inside their cage at
Jordan's zoo in Yaduda
February 16, 2010. The two‐
month‐old cub made his
first public appearance on
Tuesday aner being born to
Lolo and Falah, who
originate from South
America. (REUTERS/Ali
Jarekji)
Cap<ons
5 th rule
#5 Get names of central figures in photographs!
Student Jeremy Jeaon, center, protests with fellow students
and faculty during a rally at George Washington High School in
San Francisco, on Thursday March 4, 2010. Students staged
raucous rallies to protest educa<on funding cuts on college
campuses na<onwide Thursday, but some demonstra<ons got
out of hand as protesters threw punches and ice chunks in
Wisconsin and shut down a major freeway in California. (AP
Photos/San Francisco Chronicle, Michael Macor)
Cap<on This
Photo#1 Assignment
In‐class assignment:
• "U of M in three photos." Your editor wants
three images for a story <tled "My U of M":
one overall, one medium, and one close‐up
(detail) shot that relates your view of campus.
• Each shot should have a cap<on.
• Post to blog before end of class.
Photo #2 Assignment: Event
Homework assignment:
• Capturing an event in pictures: photograph an
event or scene.
• Turn in a minimum of three *different*
images, with cap<ons.
• Post to blog by start of next class.