Akins Photojournalism

Monday, May 07, 2007

Final Exam - Part One, The HUNT

Forty percent of your final exam will consist of a series of critiques of some of the work published in this year's issues of The Eagles's Eye.

Step One - The hunt
Open and clip photos that are great examples of the following from the 06-07 issues of the newspaper.

  1. Peak of emotion
  2. Peak of action
  3. Well filled frame
  4. Excellent story-telling moment
  5. High shutter speed / frozen action
  6. Framing
  7. Dramatic Angle
  8. Leading Lines
  9. Repetition
  10. Hard lighting with a dramatic effect

Clipping Instructions:Go to the following link and look through the 06-07 issues linked there. Note these are big .pdf files, so give them time to load.
Archive Link - http://studentjournalists.org/eearchive.html

For any issue that has photo(s) that you might use, save the issue as a .pdf in your folder.
To clip a photo, open the .pdf in photoshop.
Select the page you want to open.
Set the resolution to 150dpi.
Allow it to rasterize.
Clear the crop tool settings.
Crop out the photo AND the caption and save this file as a .tiff in a folder named "final_clippings" in your folder.

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