Please review the calendar in the Calendar & Deadlines heading on the menu of this blog. There you will find the due dates for the projects. Your current assignment is to continue shooting street portraits, mindful of the Feb. 14 deadline for your portfolio of 10 images. You can shoot with the same partner, with a new one or solo but you will submit your … Continue reading Assignments & Deadlines
The Changing Nature and Uses of Portraits This interview with National Geographic’s director of photography. Street Portraits This is from photographer Joel Nsadha and it is a primer on composition. Continue reading More Street Portrait Resources
For a copy of the presentation about the street portrait assignment, you can click here. For some advice from outstanding photographers who work for Magnum, one of the most famous international photo cooperatives (and to see some spectacular images), click here. Continue reading Tonight
–You will work in pairs. You will shoot alone, but you will use the resources and fortification of working in a team for this assignment. –The aim is five subjects each. Each team produces 10 finished images. –Take at least 10 frames of each subject. –For each subject you must have a name and contact information. If you cannot get this information, you cannot … Continue reading Street Portrait Assignment
The first post on this blog is three links to two readings and a TEdx talk about storytelling. Watch the 14-minute TED talk by Ashley Fell and listen to what she has to say about storytelling in the digital era. Below are two links to street portrait photographers and their work. Look at the images and read the interviews with these two street photographers: A Street Portrait … Continue reading Reflection Journal Assignment
Using the posted Thinglink image of the inside of a refrigerator, take a photo that says something about you. Annotate the image with at least 4 points that reveal text about you in relation to the image. To complete the assignment: Subscribe to Thinglink. Get a free business subscription. Take a photo from your life. As this is digital storytelling, the photo should tell a … Continue reading Telling Your Story: Annotated Image
From the Harvard Business Review: Why Your Brain Loves Good Storytelling Why Storytelling is so Powerful in the Digital Era: A TED talk Things You Can Learn About Storytelling from Ira Glass Continue reading Why Tell Stories?
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