Room Creativity

1) How do you plan on addressing the room creativity expectation?
 My idea for the room is to get pictures from magazines like National Geographic and newspaper, then I would put the pictures all over the room. Since I know this would be really difficult to do, I was thinking of just making a strip of photos and have the strip go around the walls. My other idea and the one I think I will most likely do is get photos from famous photographers and my own pictures, then frame them and put them around the room. I want it to have a gallery feel to the room.

2) What activities ideas do you have for answer 1 or 2?
What I was thinking for my answer 2 activity, my second answer is having strong emotion in your photo, that I would borrow the cameras from ROP and have the students take photos with emotion. I would put them into groups and give each group an emotion, have them to try and capture the emotion the best they could. The last part of the activity would to upload the pictures, so everyone could see them, then ask people to guess the emotion in the shot.

Picture of the week and Photojournalist of the week: Robert Capa

By: Robert Capa D-day

Robert Capa is a famous war photographer, know for his impact by showing his audience war and the effects of it. I really love this shot because it shows that he has no special protection he is out with the soldiers in the middle of  war. To me he was one of the bravest and greatest photojournalist, he had a great eye and captured what others were afraid to do.

Answer 2

1. EQ: What is most important to being an accomplished photojournalist?
2. Answer 2: Having strong emotion in your photo.

Examples:

• Emotion s something that everyone can connect with, which makes people understand the story and relate to it.
• Having a certain emotion from one person separates your photo from every other photographer, because nothing like it has been done. It makes your photo and your story unique.
• Since emotion is something everyone can relate to, you can have photos of people that people would normally not relate to but if the photo has an emotion you can relate to them. The photo above would be this example. Normally you wouldn't find yourself relating to one of the most popular bands of all time, but you can relate to being happy just hanging out with your best friends.
• The in between moments are the moments that you catch the most emotion and that matter.

Sources:

Knight, Cameron. "Understanding and Appreciating the Basics of Photojournalism." Photography and Post-processing Tutorials from Beginner to Advanced | Phototuts. Photodune, 9 Nov. 2011. Web. 10 Jan. 2012. <http://photo.tutsplus.com/tutorials/understanding-and-appreciating-the-basics-of-photojournalism/>.

Jitesh, A. "Tips on How to Photograph Emotions." Bright Hub. Ed. Rhonda Callow. Bright Hub Inc., 24 May 2011. Web. 08 Mar. 2012. <http://www.brighthub.com/multimedia/photography/articles/39570.aspx>.

Schulz, Constance B. "Documentary Photography: Information from Answers.com." Answers.com: Wiki Q&A Combined with Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus, and Encyclopedias. Oxford University Press, 2000. Web. 09 Sept. 2011. <http://www.answers.com/topic/documentary-photography-1

The Product

My product would be a portfolio, I picked this as my product because it will show what this whole year has done for me and it will be something I can use in my future. I would use my portfolio to show the skills that I have learned this year, from ROP ( my log will show how often I go). You can also see this in my independent component blog, which show some of the work I have done. Also it shows what I have learned from my research which is shown on my WB.