Spirit Week Project

Tuesday you should download your Spirit Week photos! Hopefully, you took at least 35-40 pictures (the equivalent to a roll of film). First, make a contact sheet of 12 spirit week photos straight out of the camera, and turn in to the shared folder on the 'n' drive. Next, you will crop, correct for brightness/contrast, check your levels on your histogram, and edit all photos. Experiment with the 'red eye' tool if necessary. Straighten photos using the measure tool if necessary. Use your map of the tools and try to create ten really good newspaper-worthy photos. For this project, we will be practicing to be Photojournalists! You will paste your ten best photos to a word document and write appropriate 2-3 line captions to accompany each. You will be graded on the project as a whole---the photos, the editing, and the captions. This project will be due Wednesday.

If you did not take Spirit Week photos (or did not take enough photos--minimum of 12), your assignment is as follows:

Since Spirit Week has passed, this is not an assignment you can turn in late. I feel that an alternative assignment should require an equal amount of effort as displayed by those who actually took their cameras out all week and got their photos, and the editing and caption-writing they are to do this week. That's only fair to the ones who put forth the effort to do the assignment.

Therefore, as an alternative to the Spirit Week project, you may hand-write a five page paper expressing to me how you might become a better Photographer, and a better Student of Photography. You may analyze specific study skills which would enhance your performance in class. You may talk about specific strategies you might adopt. You might also explore the different types of photography which appeal to you and how you can become a better photographer by using tips listed on the many Internet Photography Websites. You may specify the actual tips for each type of photography. A list of works cited should be attached to the five-page report. This should be hand-printed on notebook paper. Do not skip lines. Make your paper heartfelt and to the point for a passing grade.

Since projects make up 60% of your grade in this class, I suggest you take the next one seriously and put forth the effort necessary to get it done. However, I am willing to offer you this alternative so that you might pass this course!