Week 4 – Monday

Create compelling (and ethical) digital images

Guest speaker: photojournalist Dan Lamont

• What makes a great news photo (discussion)
• Photo editing tips (Kathy demos Photoshop – re-size, optimizing)
• Review Friday, Monday assignment (lessons learned, listen to clips)
• Review Wednesday’s brainstorming results (group project)

Notes from Dan Lamont

• What is a pixel?
• Understand meta-data (search/findability)
• What is RGB?
• File types: RAW and TIFF (like WAV – lossless) v JPG (like mp3 – lossy) [resource 1, resource 2]
  • RAW: 12 bit data, up to 4096 different intensity levels for each pixel
  • Why shoot JPG? More shots on a memory card, faster
  • Why shoot RAW? When you plan to do post exposure processing, you have a large memory card
• Types of memory cards [resource1, resource2]
  • CompactFlash (CF)
  • Memory Stick (MS -  Sony)
  • Secure Digital (SD – most popular today) – MultiMediaCard (MMC)
  • SmartMedia (SM)
  • xD-Picture Card (xD – Olympus/Fuji)
• Project management: nested folders with assets (copies to edit – don’t edit original files!)
  • Dan files w/reverse date code: lamont_09_04_20_N
• IPTC
• Updig
• Programs mentioned: PhotoMechanic, Lightroom, Photoshop
• MediaStorm.org, NYT, MSNBC, Apple Online Seminar (Producing MultiMedia)
• Quotable:
  • “Engage with the subject in a manner that is willful”
  • “Decide what your picture is about”

Kathy’s Notes

• Create Compelling Digital Photos
• Image Size (72 dpi)
• Image Optimization

Audio Assignments 1 and 2

• Course files: http://courses.washington.edu/dmwork/com466_09/
• Lessons learned (small groups)
• Listen to clips

Brainstorming results

• Google doc
• Invite code sent to class mailing list; click on that link to get “in” to edit
• Review, then discuss small groups
• What roles are you interested in? researcher, writer, editor, producer, talent, photographer, videographer?

For Wednesday 22 April:

• Read : Chapters 7&8, Journalism 2.0 – short blog post by 8 am Wed w/key take-aways
• Tweet : three tweets related to group project (future of news) by 8 am Wed
• In lab, we will edit photos
• Wednesday guest speaker: Mark Briggs

For Mon 28 April:

• Bring to class: outline/storyboard for audi0-slideshow

For Wed 30 April:

• We’re going to create an audio-slideshow using SoundSlides. Bring to class 50-75 photos and audio files (interviews, voice over, ambient sound).

For Wed 13 May:

• Bring video to class to edit (editing exercise)

For Wed 20 May:

• Bring video to class to edit (storytelling exercise)

Report: assignment for Monday (photos in storytelling)
Reminder: (1) tell us why you make your picks (what are your “criteria” for making a judgment) and (2) no more pasted URLs as links! Link text (words).

1. Adam
2. Andrew
3. Gwen – no post
4. Jeff
5. Michelle
6. Paul
7. Reisha
8. Ryan
9. Sarah
10. Scott
11. Tara

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