Overview: Like great pieces of art, great photojournalism shots are well composed. The photographer carefully places the elements of a photo within a frame in order to tell a story in the most visually powerful way possible.
Unlike art, the content of photojournalism is not, for the most part, controlled by the photographer.
This was never more true than during the attacks of September 11, 2001. This has been called one of the most photographed events in history.
Imagine being a photojournalist on that day, running into this disaster while most people are running away. In the midst of this misery and chaos, it is your job to capture the the human side of the story in an orderly and effective way.
Assignment: You will learn about some composition techniques and find examples of how photojournalists applied them to the chaos of 9/11.
Step 1: Read about the the basic Rules of Photo Composition by clicking on the link below. You should read about Simplicity, The Rule of Thirds, Lines, Balance, Framing, and Avoiding Mergers. You can skip the Introduction and Conclusion pages.
Step 2: Go to the three websites below, and find excellent examples of photos shot on 9/11 that follow each of the Composition Rules.
Post one example of each of the photo Composition techniques from the Composition Website.
You will make a total of 6 different blog posts. The title of the post should be the name of the technique.
For example: Post a photo with "Framing" as the title. You will need to do a post for each of the composition techniques. This means you should have 6 posts today.
Below are the 9-11 Websites. They should be clickable links. If not copy and paste then into a new browser window.
(For the website above, there are 25 pictures make sure you find the clickable link labelled NEXT and look at all 25 photos.)
Step 3 (Bonus): you might be interested to read this story - if you post your reactions to this story in a separate blog. I will give you extra credit points.
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