White Balance and Subject Homework - this week

Play with the White Balance settings on your camera - set camera to program mode, and take the same picture with -1, 0, and +1 WB settings.

Also, pick a subject (object) to take many different pictures of, with different light, in different places and at different angles. Use multiple White Balance settings for the same shot.

You may try this at home if you have a camera. We will also work on these two activities all week at school.

Take the picture you want handout

Late Post... send a link of favorite pictures by Monday

Here are a few great photo sites (links below). Use them to send me one link for each of the exercises that we completed in class on Thursday and Friday. Your email to Mr. Rodgers should include a full link to the actual picture with a brief key word next to the link for each exercise.

Exercises:
Thursday
1. take picture of object with camera close to object with no zoom (keyword - closeup or close-up)
2. stand back from same object and take picture while zooming in to same size of frame (crop) of the picture from #1 (keyword - telephoto macro)
3. a macro closeup of an object (closeup macro)

Friday
4.

Some photo links - there are plenty of other sites:
Flickr  - in search option search for key words and objects that you took pictures of
Utata - use the pull down "project menu" toward bottom of window to find an interesting category
Flickr - Macro textures

Some Concepts of Photo Composition

Composition Class Notes

Photo Composition Links
1. Composition Basics
2. Photography.com

Photo Tutorials - a great site

Photo Journalism 1 - Homework due Wednesday

Please fill out and return the Camera Permission Sheet passed out in class:

Camera Permission

Also, send an email to Mr. Rodgers with your first and last name and the words photo journalism in the subject line.

Welcome to Photo Journalism

I would like to welcome you and your son or daughter to the Seventh Photo-Journalism Wheel class this year, in Room 601 during 5th period, which will run for the first six weeks of school. We will learn by doing. We will learn to take amazing pictures and learn to do interviews, conduct surveys, write great articles, and post our articles and pictures on our class website, which will become the student publications website.

This class is a great opportunity to learn to take and process great digital photos. The school has a number of digital cameras for the class, but if you give permission to your son or daughter to bring their digital cameras to school, we will have enough cameras for all students in the class daily. We will learn photo composition and editing strategies, and ultimately create an entire photo portfolio for your son or daughter and the class as a whole.

Along the way, we will also interview and write about our photo topics, using an integrated arts approach, so that the two outcomes foster each step through the process.

In coordination with Mrs. Wollman, a number of our by-products may also be used in the final production of the yearbook. On this score, I encourage your son or daughter to join the yearbook group if they are so inclined to be an editor, photographer and assistant to the yearbook with Mrs. Wollman.