Subtitle: Create Compelling (and ethical) Digital Images
Photojournalism: Composition, rule of thirds, basic photojournalim ethics.
Agenda:
- Housekeeping
- More On Audio
- Begin Discussion About Visuals (Photos)
- Lab
Housekeeping
- Updated gradesheet
- Twitter Summary
* Let’s not just copy&paste bios anymore; the #FF info should tell us why we want to follow them based on your recommendation.
* Josh – what is your handle?
* This week’s #FF was supposed to be photographers/radio-audio — anything else not credited - Audio Summary (those who did not do this lab are behind)
- TypeWithMe documents : Twitter FF photographers, Twitter FF audio/radio
More On Audio
Editing Unwanted Sound:
Changing Voice Amplification:
- How To Adjust Sound On A Track (Audacity Envelope Tool)
- How To Adjust Sound Of A Recorded Interview Using Audacity
- How to Delete Annoying Sound Using Audacity
In pairs, your audio story for this week – problems, brainstorming
- No Music!
- Intro/Closing
- Clearly identify interviewee
- This week’s audio story: details on audio assignment page
Discussion : Photos In A Digital Age
Last week’s assignment: read and come to class prepared to discuss:
- No Picture Tells The Truth – The Best Do Better Than That (NYT)
- Iraq War Photo manipulation (LA Times)
- Ethics In The Age of Digital Photography
Small group discussion: key take-aways about creating online photos?
Workshop/slideshare presentation: Create compelling photos
Key points about online photos:
- File size – quality trade-off (save at 72 dpi)
- Rule of Thirds
- Demo Photoshop basics (crop – resize)
Tuesday (tomorrow) : start your 10-day photo-a-day project
Open Lab
Resources:
- Audacity Keyboard Shortcuts
- Audacity Tips and Tutorials
- All About Sound (BBC)
- Audacity Tutorials on Audacity Wiki
Please share: if you have found useful Audacity resources, please share with the class on this TypeWith.Me document (counts towards participation grade)
Assignments
- Tuesday (tomorrow) : start your 10-day photo-a-day project
- By Wednesday at noon, a blog post with three examples of excellent news photos (singular) from three different online news sites (NOT Boston.com Big Picture) and at least one example of not-so-good one. (Stills, not slideshows. One step at a time!)
- By Wednesday at noon, blog post about audio assignment. See details on audio assignment page.
- Reading for Wednesday: Journalism 2.0 (Chapters 7 & 8)
- Enable web publishing on UW account (have completed by Wednesday or come to class with your problems identified)
- Set up accounts at SoundCloud (need to be set up by Wednesday’s class)
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Filed under: Class Notes
Notes:
* The manipulation should nt change the content of the picture
* Where do you draw the line? (context : TIME v Cosmopolitan)
* Integrity of news source – not that different from lies in written story
* Be sure credit is given to the photographer
* Use common sense
* Shift in perspective – reporting versus “art”
* The mindset for news should be accurate – but do the ends justify the means?
* Ethical concerns
* Captions are an incredibly important part of photojournalism
* Cultural change in the move to digital from darkrooms
* Setting up a shot is a form of manipulationi
For enabling web publishing –
I wasn’t able to locate “Turn Services on or off” per the directions. In case anyone else needs to know, here’s how you can do it.
*Log-in with your UW Net ID.
*Need to be on the page that says “Manage UW NetID Resources for….”.
*Click on “Computing Services” (on the left). *Then under “Inactive Services” (on the right) – click on “Student Web Publishing”.
*Click “Subscribe”.