Daily Tasks

I will be out until Friday. You must do the following every day.


1. Write a daily photo critique.

Go to cnn.com and choose a recent photojournalism photo. Upload it into your flickr account, and post it on your blog with a full critique.

Your critique should include the following and make specific reference to elements in the photo. You do not have to answer every question for every photo, but you should discuss the major areas ( i – iv ) for every photo, and focus on prominent items in the photo.

• What is the story? – Write one to two sentences explaining, in your own words, what story is being communicated by the photo. DO NOT copy the caption. Instead, discuss what the photo adds to the story visually.
  
• Focus- Is the depth of field deep or shallow? How can you tell? What is in focus and what is out of focus and what effect does this have?
  
• Exposure - What is dark and what is light? What is in shadow and what is highlighted? What is blurry and what is frozen? How does the exposure affect the photo?
  
• Composition – What is the CVI? How do the different elements in the photo help to create this CVI? What advanced techniques do you see, and how do they add to the effectiveness of the photo?
  

2. Finish your other work.

All past blog entries as described below, and your photo essay complete with 2-3 sentence captions must be finished by before Friday.

I will be monitoring your posts on the web from NY, and the photo essay is a HUGE grade, so keep working and be good to the sub. See you Friday.

-Connolly