Your Subject...

Please answer the following questions:

• Who is your subject?
• What are ten adjectives/traits/hobbies/activities etc. that describe him/her?
• How could you photograph each of the above?

Next we practice!!!

one in 8 million project

Photo Journalism is about telling a story with images. One way to do this is to tell a story about one person. The NY Times has been doing this the past few years. They use images and narration by the subject to tell their tale.

check them out here

Your task is going to be to do the same. You will tell us about someone with images. We will use captions in favor of narration, but the idea is the same.



Specifics:

• Choose someone to tell us about (friend, family, coworker, etc).
• Narrow down your story, what specifically about them would you like to tell us? A hobby of theirs? A specific event? A trait? etc.
• You will be shooting a BUNCH of images of this person. From these 7 will become your tell of their tale?

Today's Task:
Watch a handful of the above clips then post a comment on this blog answering the following questions:

• Which 1 in 8 million photo essay did you like the best? why?
• Which image in that essay did you find most interesting?
• What did the photographer do to make their images interesting and unique, not just snapshots? Compositionally? Lighting? etc.

Homework: Find a subject for your 1 in 8 million adventure!

PhotoJ Magazine Assignment

First photo: the 2-page layout I've chosen as inspiration for this assignment. It's from the October 2007 issue of Domino magazine.

Second photo: a student made magazine layout assignment, in reverse format, using their images.

Your task:

1. Find a layout you dig
2. Think about which section of a yearbook this could fit into
3. Now, lets try and recreate the images to fit your needs. Similar angles, backgrounds, colors etc to create a similar page of images... (3+ images)