journalism 2300 :

Journalism 2300:Week Two

January 30, 2012

Announcements

Today is the end of the 2nd week of the semester. The following take effect today:

1. Last day to add courses.2. Last day to use permission numbers.3. Last day to withdraw from a course with a

W appearing on the transcript.4. Last day to change a grading option.5. Last day to apply for a degree.

Just call me Lucy!

An instructor, not professor OK to just use Lucy!

Let’s turn in textbook quizzes

What surprised you?

To be a better photographer…

…you need to take a lot of photos!

Aspire to work in:– NHL Public

Relations– Graduate

School/Professor– Women’s health

magazine– Photojournalist– Sports reporters– Broadcast

journalism

Who you are

– Public Relations for theater company

– Lucasfilms– Freelance

journalist– Law– Marketing– Newspaper– Magazines

Chapter 1: Assignment

Where to find spot news?– Scanner– Local news radio– Local television news– Cell phones– Websites– Contacts: officials, firefighters, police

officers, friends, acquaintances– News tips

Text message alerts

Duluth News-Tribune Minneapolis Star Tribune

Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News

Where to find more information

Beat reporters Public Relations offices

Best time to shoot

Not always when reporter conducting interview

What did you learn with your photos of the DTA bus stop?

Visual variety

Overall shot– Sets scene

Medium shot– Tells the story in one photograph

Close-up:– Adds drama

High/low angles

New perspective– Going wide– Above, below

Persistence

Pros stay until they have the best shot

Plot out best time of day for photo Might take 100 to 1,000 shots to get

the best photograph

Catching candids

Preset your camera– Aperture priority/shutter priority

Watch your subject Anticipation and timing

Approaches to candid photography

Out in the open Click and run Big game hunter Introduce yourself

Marketing spot news story:– San Francisco earthquake

The week in pictures

MSNBC:– http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/

Chapter 2: News

Contacts:– Police

Train derailment Sunshine Hostage situation: page 29 Crime scene in progress

– Staying alive!

Why shoot fires?

Church fire Forest fire

– Billings Gazette Pulitzer Sawmill fire

– Drove film to the newspaper

Accidents/disasters

Grim but necessary– Williston stalker– Airplane crash

Accidents– Don’t get in the way!

Weather affects everyone

Chapter 3: General news

Covering elections– Get to know candidates

Meetings generate news– Avoid lines of speakers!– Shoot from side– Look for props!

Photograph the issues Steer clear of the pack!

Let’s go find news photos online

Work in groups of 4 Newseum: Today’s Front Pages

– http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

Photojournalist defined

What is a photojournalist?– http://markhancock.blogspot.com/1996/

01/what-is-photojournalist.html

– What to remember? Photojournalists capture verbs!

Understanding exposure ISO: Film speed

– Higher the number, faster shutter speed Sacrifice quality for reproduction

Aperture: Lens opening– Amount of light that the camera allows in

Shutter– How fast the lens captures action

Page 156 in textbook http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdotfhMGfTk&f

eature=related http://photodoto.com/understanding-exposure-sh

utter-speed-aperture-and-iso/

Understanding Depth of Field

Depth of Field:– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzed

efUXARE

Using a histogram

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3yiz1sBKLc

What’s a caption?See pages 147-153

Who:– Need names or detailed description– Need last names

What:– What’s happening in photo

When:– Time element important

Day of week, time of day Where:

– Location Why:

– Importance of shot How:

– Explanations as needed

For next assignment

Need to bracket!– Backlighting

Underexposes foreground

Become friends with the Associated Press Stylebook

Remember that you are telling a story with the photograph

Captions fill in the blanks

How to use AP Stylebook

Stylebook Key– Addresses:

Is this correct? 25 East Silver St.– Spellings:

Adviser/advisor; Legislative titles Sports Guidelines and Style Business Guidelines and Style A Guide to Punctuation Editing Marks

Don’t memorize, familiarize!

Photography lingo

Shoot: take photos Sharp photo: in focus Soft: out of focus; not sharp Flat light: Even, with no highlights Bracket: Take several shots of same scene

at different exposures Shoot a lot of frames!

– Take a lot of photos – memory cards are cheap!

Major Assignment I:Feature Photograph

Let’s review the assignment We will go over features next week,

but can start to think now about where to find a feature photograph

Let’s practice editing with Picasa

Go to this website:– http://www.d.umn.edu/~lkragnes/11Jour

2300Spring/IcyStairs.JPG

Picasa 3: Editing, selecting photos

Set up Google Account: google.com Go to: http://picasa.google.com/ Download Picasa 3 Upload photographs Under File menu, select New Album Type in Date/name of assignment Select photos, drag to the album you

created Edit photos, put the final photo selection

first in album Select the final photo, and write cutline

where it says: Write a caption!

Sharing album with me

Select the album you want to share Click on the Share button on upper

right side of the album screen Sign in to your Google account In the Share Photos screen, in the To:

box type lkragnes@d.umn.edu

Carry your camera with you!

Assignment for 2/6:

General news assignment Get more comfortable with your

camera Popularity of UMD food service areas Shoot from a variety of angles:

above, down lowUsing Picasa, send a link with your

best photo to: lkragnes@d.umn.edu

Let’s practice editing with Picasa

Let’s practice …depth of field/shutter speed

Jumping Bulldog Get in groups of similar type cameras

Reading Assignment for next week:

Read Chapters 4, 7 Read the Duluth News-Tribune!