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Choose two photos you’ve taken in this class. Blend the images in Photoshop using techniques inspired by Jerry N. Uelsmann.

Participate in the latest 26 Things assignment, a.k.a. the Photographic Scavenger Hunt. Post link to VoiceThread or your own photo gallery to Youth Voices by May 1. Optional post to Sh1ft.org site. Here is the list

1. sound, 2. press, 3. turn, 4. label, 5. wheels, 6. silence, 7. new, 8. old, 9. list, 10. creep (the verb, not the noun), 11. stand off, 12. admiration, 13. mess, 14. always, 15. half, 16. strings, 17. hallway, 18. grand, 19. graffiti, 20. juicy, 21. instrument, 22. logo, 23. on the horizon, 24. yawn, 25. bump, 26. macro

Now that you’ve made a Voice Thread of your photo essay, use the same photos to compose a one-page photo spread using Illustrator and InDesign.

Here are a few examples from the Society of News Design:

After the Storm , Dallas Morning News
A Sense of Place , L.A. Times
The Haj , L. A. Times

Step One. Read about what makes a good photo essay.

• 5 photo essay tips

Step Two. Look at these examples of photo essays.

• Time magazine photo essay examples
• Human Rights Watch
• Photo essay of the Great Depression
• 10 cool photography sites from the Exploratorium
• Lauren Greenfield
• James Nachtwey
• Joachim Ladefoged’s multimedia photo essays

Timeline

• This week: Browse all the examples.  Make some posts on Youth Voices about what you’re learning about photo essays. The posts should specifically reference some of the photo essays you thought were best.  Make sure you tag your post with the keyword “photo essay” (Due: 3/13)
• Week Two: Do the research and find the real story.  Create your “shot list.”  Make sure you tag your post with the keyword “shot list” (3/20)
• Week Three:  Photos completed. (3/27)
• Week Four: Photo Essay created on VoiceThread.

Now that you’ve surveyed a lot of professional photographers and completed a Google Presentation comparing two of them, you will complete a tribute assignment.  Take a series of photographs that are inspired by a photographer’s technique, approach, subject matter, or philosophy.  Due February 13.

Research the work of two professional photographers.  More info here

Photograph Judge teachers in their teaching environment. If you’re taking a picture of your gym teacher, take the photo in the weight room, for instance. If it’s a science teacher, take a picture of them in a lab. Remember to use the elements of good portrait photography that we learned in December.

Over the break, photograph Thanksgiving. That could mean taking photos of people or things you’re thankful for, or anything that’s symbolic of Thanksgiving.

Post a discussion on Youth Voices using either your own images or Creative Commons images that illustrate what you’re thankful for.

If you want to use other people’s images in your online writing, make sure the images are Creative Commons – otherwise you’re violating copyright laws.  Here’s a link to a web page that has links to copyright-friendly places.

Browse a number of these sites today, looking for images that you’re interested in.  For instance if you’ve taken a lot of photos of nature, search these portals for images of nature.  Keep track of which sites provided the best images and which ones were the most user-friendly.

By the end of the block class this week, you’ll write a post on Youth Voices where you compare the sites you looked at.  In your post be sure to include a representative image and be sure to cite the source of the image correctly.

Create a Voice Thread where you present four different aspects of your identity or four different communities that are important to you.  Consider your age, culture, background, gender, or anything else that might help show who you are.  Illustrate each one with an original photograph.