Assignment:   Shoot an event

Goals:             Get out and shoot.           

Tools:              Camera   

Turn In:           2 - 8x10s per 6 wks, Contact Sheet (95 points), Shooting Log (5 points). Beginning 2009-10. Only a CS is required. Take notes.

 

Instruction:    

The emphasis of this assignment is shooting daily activity, preferably some activity that you attend or witness. The “event” can be anything going on around you. It can be of your days at school but needs to be outside of school hours and should be a specific event. It should be journalistic in nature, i.e.. of people doing things. It could be sports, a wreck, a guest speaker. It can NOT be an inanimate object or nature scene. It CAN have special effects applied at capture (or in post processing)...but the picture must still be of an event. You can take a picture of a dog getting a bath...but you should see the person giving the bath. The image should be fairly close as in you are COVERING the event as a news photographer. Not a far off view of a bunch of things or something going on that you just happened to attend. Imagine that you are on assignment for the Beaumont Enterprise and you are responsible for covering a rally, or concert or event. Think about what the newspaper, like the Beaumont Enterprise or the West Brook Times, would want to run on the front page. Get clearance, get close, and get good coverage. Your job includes turning in a contact sheet to the editor. You don't want the editor to see all of your raw images...show them your best. Cull your work down. Delete the duds, and surely don't show them your irrelevant stuff.

 

Contact Sheet/Shooting Log:

Need contact sheet showing a minimum of 24 pictures per event. You will need to turn in a shooting log with the assignment. Film logs need to include the exposure. Digital can just include the name of the people, etc. Start shooting now...shoot plenty...shoot daily and/or weekly as needed.

 

If your event is yearbook or newspaper worthy, please plan to provide a digital file (scan your 8x10 when shooting film).

 

Note: Here is a definition from Texas Photo Forum. "Photos documenting different events such as protests, press conferences and any other editorial topic." On a personal note, I do not know if people just don't get this...or they are too lazy to do this, but after several years of doing this assignment, even into the 2 and 3rd 6 weeks, we have challenges with people getting the EVENT nature of the Current Event. Bottom line? Shoot like a dad gum press photographer. Shoot to tell a story with your picture. Also, about the cropping. YOU should crop it correctly at the Kiosk. If it is not cropped correctly, you can take the picture back, and have it reprinted for free. If it is worth doing, it is worth doing well.

 

Here is an event I covered all day, from the first moment of arriving on campus to the celebration after the game: The Tale of the Two Tigers 2007

 

Samples:

Remember...CE is OF people doing SOMETHING. It is NOT people posing. It should be something you would see on the front page of the newspaper. This is your JOURNALISM component for the year. Take it serious...get out and shoot. Have some fun. Go to some events you wouldn't ordinarily go to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beaumont Camera Club Monthly Competition, March '07 Themed Topic was "Journalism". Current students help me pick what photos to enter. Well, my photo titled "Yuk" didn't place. :(   Check out the composite image I made of all three of the images (see below). But I did get 1st in the Digitally Projected Category (the two girls below) and 1st and 2nd in the Print Category.

 

 

1st (Digitally Projected Category)

 

Did not place (Digitally Projected Category)

 

Did not place (Digitally Projected Category)

 

1st place! Thanks Hector!! (Print Category)

 

2nd Place (Print Category)

 

Did not place (Print Category)...probably because they had already judge the previous category where a similar image place 1st.

 

 

[Please RE-READ the details regarding what constitutes a CE. READ: "i.e. PEOPLE doing things". Not dogs. Not stop signs. Not statues. Unless, the dog is jumping up to get a cat on the stop sign! That could be a Current Event. Or better yet, a person THROWING a Frisbee for a dog to catch in mid air. Now THAT would be exciting...and a CE!]

 

NOLA Wedding

 

 

 

 

 

 

The following was done to the mother of a bride while I was photographing their bridal pictures at Tyrell Park. The mom had taken off her 25th anniversary wedding ring as well as 3 other rings and had left behind countless other things in her purse. And some spineless, heartless person ripped it out of their car. We must all do our part by being the best that we can...to serve as role models for others. We must all do our part to be good citizens. To not accept unacceptable behaviors of others, to stay away from drugs and alcohol, and to do whatever you can to be successful in life in society and as a person. And, let this be a warning that during tough times, people resorting to drastic measure is on the increase.

 

 

 

Tennis - A local event. I shot 1,000 pictures...but here area  few.

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