Best Photo of the Semester

Double Page Spread

Final Exam

Due Monday, Dec. 14th

$1

PART 1- On black poster board: 

1. DPS
   
2. 5-8 5X7 prints with top ten photo tip
3. famous photojournalist (Name and what you liked about him/her and an example of his/her work)
4. front page of your blog
5. list 3 things you learned in this class
6. 3 reasons why do you like photography

PART 2- Update blog, make it a PDF, save whole blog into "Blog Final" folder

put BEST picture of the semester on your blog

Animoto Video

Cutout with Photoshop

Photoshop is a program that allows you to edit your pictures in ways other programs can't. It is easy to use once you get the hang of it. The program lets users manipulate, crop, resize, and correct colors on photos. I learned that you need to be very careful when using the crop tool and the "magic wand" tool because you can ruin the picture if you don't use these tools carefully. It's a lot of fun to use if you use it correctly; and many professionals use it!

Photojournalism Ethics

I think it is not right when someone fools you, so as a photojournalist I don't think altering your photos is the right thing to do. When you simply change the color of someone shirt in a picture, you are fooling the reader from what the picture actually is and is portraying. I think editing pictures to make them look better is perfectly fine, but when you remove items or change the people in the photo, you are not showing the public the same picture you took, so you are causing the viewer to question if the picture really happened or if it is a fake. This has been a growing concern amongst photojournalists because readers are beginning to question almost every photo taken; It is true? Did it really happen? Is this what it was supposed to look like? I don't think we, as readers, should have to question the honesty of a photo each time we see one. In this picture, for example, we need to ask if this is really what it looks like? Probably not. This photojournalist obviously manipulated the picture to make it look like that.

Photojournalism: Behind the Viewfinder

Photojournalism is a type of photography meant to convey information about an event or events, combined with text; it is a form of journalism that utilizes images in order to tell a news story

The Typical Life of a Photojournalist

Faces in the ferris wheel

By: Lara Hartley

The Nutcracker

By: Tom Burton

Columbine Diaries

By: James Keivom

A mitzvah is a good deed...

By: Susan Markisz

How many ways can you spell G-R-A-D-U-A-T-I-O-N?

By: Susan Markisz

I don't do weddings.

By: Lara Hartley

A Day in the Bronx

By: Dick Kraus

Does Color Matter?

By: Susan Markisz

Pulitzer Prize for Photography

The Pulitzer Prize is a U.S. award established by Joseph Pulitzer and given annually for accomplishment in various fields of newspaper journalism, literature, and musical composition, photography is one of the many categories.

Nathaniel Fein, 1949

Steve Ludlum, 2002

Sal Veder, 1974

The photograph taken by Kevin Carter of the Sudan child was very disturbing and meaningful. Could I take this photo without helping the child in any way? No. Definitely not. I probably wouldn't even be able to take the picture at all because I would not be able to look at the picture every again. I can't even look at the picture now. I guess it's just because of who I am and what I've been through that I could never do something like that, no matter how important it is for those suffering. I think this picture needed to be captured, but I could not see myself taking it. I don't understand why Carter didn't go to help the child, I know I would have picked her up and taken her to get food, so that she wasn't crawling there herself. Helping her would be the first thing I did, not take a picture and then leave her be. What would you have done?