Assignment 5

Goal:

• to use compositional techniques to work a scene and make creative images

Turn in:

• 20 photos with captions (captions can be reused for more than one photo)

Guidelines:

• You will choose one building

• You will make 20 different images of the building.

• Repeat: All of the pictures should look different!

• Your images should use different compositional and exposure techniques such as rule of thirds, lines, framing, find a unique angle; vary depth of field; different times of day, etc

• you should ONLY use manual controls

• you should adhere to photojournalistic standards and ethics

• you should add captions to the metadata in Lightroom

• In Lightroom, you should add a keyword about the compositional technique you're demonstrating

Grading:

• this assignment is worth 75 points within your “Photo Assignments” category

• grading will be based on

  • technical standards – correct exposure, focus, sharpness

  • composition – unique and interesting, shows a variety and creativity

  • editorial content – honest, not staged, communicates a message to the viewer

  • captions – all photos have captions that tell the viewer who, what, when, where, why

  • named correctly (last namefirst initial _ assignment number_sequence)