The document provides announcements and tips for a photography class. It announces that quizzes will be given, extra credit can be collected, and the final exam will be on Tuesday. It discusses that photojournalism aims to capture the human experience, both good and bad examples will be posted online. Tips are provided such as avoiding posed pictures, capturing emotion, getting faces not backs, identifying the main subject, getting close up, telling a story through angles and composition, focusing on people not objects, and not overcrowding frames. The "rule of thirds" and trying different techniques are also recommended. Students are advised to bring a blank CD to an upcoming lab and recruit high school students to the university for a slide

1. PhotographyJuly 29, 2009Jennifer Cox

2. AnnouncementsQuizzes – ouch…Collect extra creditSurveysSounslides lab – bring a blank CDFinal on Tuesday

3. PhotojournalismPhotojournalism is about capturing the human experience and making your own art; not just capturing the creations of othersLook at the good, the bad and the uglyExamples of good pictures are posted on the blog

4. TipsTry to avoid posed picturesTry to capture emotionGet faces; not backsIdentify the star of the pictureGet up close!Let your picture tell a storyUse different anglesAvoid inanimate objects; focus on peopleDon’t crowd the pictureAction, good; blurry, bad!Use the “Rule of Thirds”Try different things

5. Try to avoid posed pictures

6. Try to capture emotion

7. Get faces; not backs

8. Who is the star of the picture?

9. Get up close!

10. Let your pictures tell a story

11. Let your pictures tell a story

12. Use different angles/levels

13. Inanimate objectsInanimate objects tend to be boring; always try to include peopleNo pictures of buildings, cars, etc.Don’t just photograph a sculpture; photograph someone looking at the sculpture with an expressive look on his/her face

14. Inanimate objects

15. Don’t crowd the picture

16. Action is exciting; blurry is not

17. Use the Rule of Thirds

18. Use the Rule of Thirds

19. Try different things

20. Some good examples

21. Some good examples

22. SoundSlides – need to knowYou will be creating a slide show GOAL: to recruit high school students to UFTake pictures that capture life at UFHave a theme – don’t be too scatteredNo need for journalistic captions; you’ll be creating ad-like captions in labWe’ll look at examples on Monday

23. Announcements For Monday: read SoundSlides post on the blogLab 11: bring in a blank discLab 11: bring in 10-20 photographs from around the campus on a flash driveToday’s PowerPoint will be posted on the blog