Life Style Photojournalism Assignment
For this assignment, you need to select a person, or a small, specific group of people to depict in a series of photographs to be presented to the class. The object of this project is to capture a glimpse of a lifestyle that could theoretically be used to capture a viewer's eye in order to lead them to a corresponding article within a publication. Before starting the assignment, you need to create a proposal indicating your topic of focus. This proposal should be one paragraph in length, typed and should give a detailed description of who your subject is, why they were chosen, and how you will go about photographing them.
Guidelines:
-Do not pose or set up anything, take the approach of "Fly on the Wall."
-Avoid the subject making eye contact with the camera whenever possible.
-Allow any "meaning" to arise from your work naturally, resist the temptation to force ti down the viewer's throat.
-Always get permission when photographing someone specific.
-Get to know your subject, take notes on what they do, things that they tell you, the way they interact with other people and their environment.
-Take an unusual viewpoint.
-Shoot what people feel, not what they are doing.
Some things to look for-
- MOTION: blurred movements in parts of the image, to accentuate the capture of a moment in time.
-EMOTION: allow your subject enough time to get comfortable so that you can shoot the display of real emotions.
-MOOD: established through finding proper lighting, or lack of lighting.
-ACTION: photograph your subject actually doing something!
-REACTION: shoot while subject is responding to something that happened.
-INTERACTION: capture images of subject interacting with others (besides yourself)
Possible Topics:
-employee at a job
-"green" lifestyle
-Local politics
-athlete
-music scene
-instructor
-artist
-sports game
Rubric
-Layout (professional looking, clean composition)
-Quality of Photos (exposure, high resolution)
-Photojournalism Techniques (motion, emotion, mood, action, reaction, interaction, other learned techniques)
-Visual storytelling (communication of a single story/ subject matter through the photos alone).
-Text (spelling, grammar; each paragraph provides concise, pertinent, and factual background information on each photo).
Guidelines:
-Do not pose or set up anything, take the approach of "Fly on the Wall."
-Avoid the subject making eye contact with the camera whenever possible.
-Allow any "meaning" to arise from your work naturally, resist the temptation to force ti down the viewer's throat.
-Always get permission when photographing someone specific.
-Get to know your subject, take notes on what they do, things that they tell you, the way they interact with other people and their environment.
-Take an unusual viewpoint.
-Shoot what people feel, not what they are doing.
Some things to look for-
- MOTION: blurred movements in parts of the image, to accentuate the capture of a moment in time.
-EMOTION: allow your subject enough time to get comfortable so that you can shoot the display of real emotions.
-MOOD: established through finding proper lighting, or lack of lighting.
-ACTION: photograph your subject actually doing something!
-REACTION: shoot while subject is responding to something that happened.
-INTERACTION: capture images of subject interacting with others (besides yourself)
Possible Topics:
-employee at a job
-"green" lifestyle
-Local politics
-athlete
-music scene
-instructor
-artist
-sports game
Rubric
-Layout (professional looking, clean composition)
-Quality of Photos (exposure, high resolution)
-Photojournalism Techniques (motion, emotion, mood, action, reaction, interaction, other learned techniques)
-Visual storytelling (communication of a single story/ subject matter through the photos alone).
-Text (spelling, grammar; each paragraph provides concise, pertinent, and factual background information on each photo).