Lab Hours for the End of the Semester

Lab Hours:

Monday, December 8 - 3:30-6:30
Tuesday, December 9 - 9-5
Wednesday, December 10 - 9-5
Thursday, December 11 - 9-5
Friday, December 12 - 9-5 (3710 deadline)

Equipment must be turned in with your portfolio.

Fill and Diffuse

A short video that talks about using reflectors and diffusers. If you're heading into a world of more portraits, good to pay attention.

Notes from Tuesday

Sorry for the delay, but I've posted the presentation (sans images) online about finding features and story ideas.

ASSIGNMENT: Features, Reading & Learning

For next Tuesday, please shoot three feature photos. One needs to be weather related, one needs to focus on color and one needs to focus on a strong moment. Upload to the site as normal.

Please read chapter 9 in the book and the handout "In A Flash" (now available in the corner of this site and on the class site).

Don't forget to sign up for the Flying Short Course (and the NPPA) and talk with me about internship opportunities.

And don't forget to blog, either. Or do your photo requests. Or do a Tumblr post, if you want. 

ASSIGNMENT: Blog, read, shoot news

Don't forget, you are all supposed to blog every week - posts by Friday at 9 a.m., comments by noon. 

For Tuesday, please read chapter 11 in the book and have a 3-5 photo package on a news event up online. You need to have them up before class starts - we won't have time in class to do this.

Letters - remember the letters? You were supposed to shoot letters ... let's get those on the server in the lab for Tuesday, as well. If you don't have time to do them before class, I'll stay a little late and you can upload them afterwards. Please crop them into a 5 inch wide by 7 inch high at 300 dpi image and I'll build something cool from there. 

And don't forget the tumblr page ... 

tumblr

As asked, it is done. Everyone should have gotten an invitation by email to join the VisualizeAthens Tumblr site. 

First word: brush

Make of it as you will. 

Links to Student Work

Bookmark this link:

http://www.grady.uga.edu/~3710

That will take you to the main page and then to everyone's pages. If you are dying to have a different paragraph on your page, send it to me and I'll update it next week when I add your photos ... 

Lab Hours

Lab Hours, for the foreseeable future:

Monday - 3:30-6:30

Tuesday - 12:30- 2:00

Thursday - 11:30-4:30

Friday - 12:30-4:30

Hours are a little shorter this semester due to budget cuts, but I know you're all free on Thursday afternoons, at the very least ...

More on RAW v. JPG

Fro Luminous Landscape, a comparison of the two ...

Final Portfolios

Lab hours:

• Dec. 7 – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Dec. 10 – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Dec. 11 – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Dec. 12 – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Dec. 13 – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.
• Dec. 14 – 9 a.m. – 5 p.m.

Don’t push the deadline. Be paranoid - no portfolios will be accepted after 5:00 p.m. Remaining time will be announced throughout the day as shown on the clock on computer 0.

Deadline: Friday, December 14, 5:00 p.m. SHARP

You must turn in your equipment with your portfolio. Be sure that all filters are in good condition, all lens caps are present, hoods are there, synch cords, audio recorder, microphone and adaptor are in your bag. If anything is missing or broken, you’re responsible for replacing or repairing it. If you don’t, your account will be flagged and you won’t graduate.

Portfolio requirements:

20 single images, shot during this semester
1 photo story
Intellectual Photographer Paper

DITL project folder should be on the CD, as well

Color laser prints of all the images, as well as one CD with high resolution versions of the images, to be placed in a 9x12 manila clasp envelope with your name and section on it.

All images must have complete, AP style captions, proper credit lines and correct file names.

To print photos with captions:

• When you are done toning, cropping and captioning, go to File -> Print with Preview
• Make sure “Center Image” is checked
• If a horizontal, click on “Scale to Fit Media”
• If a vertical, set height to 7.5 inches
• Click on “Description” to get captions to print
• Click on “Labels” to get file name to print
• Do not rotate prints in Page Setup
• Send to the HP 4600 printer

DITLs

Two past DITLs for you to look at:

Colin Smith on John Rawlston

Katie Monroe on W.A. Bridges

Things To Do ...

By next Wednesday, Nov. 7, please drop the ALMS and football images you want to contribute onto the server. Inside of the 3710 folder are two more - named ALMS and CCHS - for your images. (There are copies of the rosters in the glass office.)

Hearst entries need to be to me by tomorrow, Nov. 2, and noon. Two portraits/personality images, two features - one has to have been published. Need a tearsheet of the published image.

If interested in the Terry shooting gig, let me know and I'll pass along your name.

Join us for pizza and bugs tomorrow at noon, too.

Lit portraits

It was asked, and here are some more links to portraits, both executive and environmental. Pay attention to the way the light is balanced between ambient and the flash, as well as the quality of light.

Ed Carreon, Los Angeles based photographer

Chris Ware, New York based photographer

Greenville News and American Le Mans Series Visitors

Jam-packed Thursday ...

Chris Weston, managing editor at the Greenville News in Greenville, S.C., will with us for the first hour. They are doing lots of high quality multimedia stuff - check out the video galleries and the restaurant guides. Be prepared to ask questions - specific questions.

After Mr. Weston, Jamie Sellers, Broadcasting & Public Relations/Media Services Manager for the American Le Mans Series will join us. Go run through the ALMS web site so you have an idea for what they're doing. (And, btw, they are desperate for video editors there - and I cannot get any telecomm kids interested. Learn to edit. Fast.)

DITL Project

As mentioned in class, the deadline for notification by your photojournalist is this Thursday, Sept. 13. I've only heard from about half thus far.

So ... chime in down in comments with who you're doing and I'll let you know if I've heard from them yet.

FYI - Guest on Sept. 18

Next Tuesday, Jim Alred, New Media Director for the Rome News Tribune will be joining us in class. Please poke around their web site and be prepared to talk about what they're doing.

Health/Medical Project

As discussed we'll be working with Prof. Pat Thomas' graduate health and medical reporting class. She's a little undersubscribed with just six (!) students, so we'll be double and triple teaming them.

They have created a class blog where they've identified different areas they'll be reporting on - along the left hand side are the six topic areas. Take a look at what they're talking about and see what interests you. By Monday morning, please email me your top three choices and then Prof. Thomas and I will work on pairing you guys up.

Also, remember we'll be meeting with her class at 9 a.m. on Wednesday in room 205 - note that's different from where I told you before.

Post questions here, comments there - start the discussion.

Out of curiosity ...

For the spring semester, there will be two (TWO!!) visual communication courses offered. Documentary Photography (JOUR5370) will be on the books, as always, as well as a new capstone-esque course - JOUR5990, Multimedia Journalism.

Since I'm limited in how many classes I can teach, we'll be hiring an adjunct to teach the 5370 course so I can do the new, experimental course. Because Doc will be done by an adjunct, the scheduling will be different - probably, probably, Tuesday OR Thursday evenings from 5-8. We're talking with a couple of staffers from the AJC about it so the adjunct will have a lot of experience at high level story telling.

Would anyone see a problem with doing an evening class? I know there would be R&B conflicts, but those should be easily worked out as not everyone would be in the class. (I hope some would choose the new course ...)

Let me know ASAP.

Thanks.

-mej

business cards

Just wanted to confirm what information we're putting on here

Name
Photojournalist
Real Home addres (not local)
Phone number
email
Univeristy of Georgia?
website? Mark, would you recommend me using georgiadogs.com?
Anything under company name?

I dont know why I'm making this so complicated... it semi-bothers me that I'm asking people about what to put for MY information

Camera settings

Remember what I said in class about always resetting my camera to the same place? So I'd know where I was if something happened? Now there's a comic for it ...