Captions!

In my photojournalism class, we learned how to do captions. We took pictures around our school and picked our top three to write a caption on. Here is my favorite of my three.

Chemistry blow out. Carefully touching the bunsen burner, sophomore Kaitlyn Shanks adjusts the gas of the fire in a chemistry lab. The students of Chem 1 were to do a lab of four chemical reactions that involved fire. “I love the labs we do in chemistry and when we get get to use the bunsen burner, it makes lab more exciting!” Shanks said. Photo by Domenique Rieder.

Last Tips!

In my photojournalism class, we learned the last tips on how to make your pictures better.

7) Move it from the middle- to make your picture more interesting, move your subject a little to the left or right (rule of thirds)

8) Know you flash's range- When you know your flash range you can know how far back the flash will work. Pictures taken beyond range will end up to dark. Most ranges are 10 ft.

9) Watch the light- Choose soft lighting on cloudy days, avoid overhead sunlight. You don't want a shadow on someone's face because then you can't see the persons face

10) Be a picture director- Take and extra second to arrange people in the picture to make it more exciting. Add props, rearrange the subject, try different view points, etc. You want to bring the subjects together and make their personalities shine.

Black and white plus ONE!

In my photojournalism class we learned how to make a picture black and white an then make one color out of the whole picture stand out. We had to to this to three pictures. Here is my favorite: