5.11 Your Photo of the Year

5.11 Your Best Photo

Good morning, Photojournalists,

I've LOVED looking at your self portraits, but they've made me miss you all more than I already do!!

This is your LAST assignment for PhotoJ this year. I'm unsure how finals will go, so we'll figure that out. It won't be difficult, just something like we've been doing the past six weeks.

Your last assignment for photoj is to find the best photo you've taken this year. You SHOULD have all of your photos still on your desktop, so find the best photo you've taken. The photo that is the BEST example of your work.

Walsworth, our yearbook publishing company, is running a photo contest, and the winners in each category will win a $100 gift card.

You need to do TWO things with this photo:

Number 1: Enter it into the Walsworth Publishing Company contest using this site:

https://www.walsworthyearbooks.com/walsworth-photo-contest/

Your photo needs to fit into one of these categories:

Academics (anything that happened in a class)
Club or Organization/Community Service (anything that happened in a club meeting)
Feature Portrait (a special portrait I asked you to take)
School Spirit (crowd photo)
Sports Action (photo of the action at a game)
Sports Reaction (photo of players reacting to something that happened at a game)
Student Life (dance, Homecoming Pep Assembly, etc)
Yearbook Life (Yearbook class stuff)

They also ask you to give your photo a name and provide a description, like how you took it, when you took it, what event it was, etc.

RIGHT BEFORE YOU ENTER IT, take a screen shot of what you filled out. If you forget to do this and you enter it and then realize you forgot, go view the entries and take a screen shot of your photo in the entries.

The deadline is May 15th, so you need to do that by then.

Number 2: Go to this google doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1of5yIgBBavEgVBj1kQSq1_7EeT71nKJWUPpiaW9RNaw/edit?usp=sharing

Put the screen shot of your photo in the entries so I'll know you did it. Then put your actual photo on the google doc.

You need to do this BY MIDNIGHT ON MAY 15TH.

If you have any questions or need anything, please let me know!!

5.4 Self Portrait

Good afternoon, photojournalists!

I'm sorry I didn't get this on the blog earlier. I was having issues with my blog being blocked for some reason.

This week, you're going to do a self portrait.

Note, I said "SELF PORTRAIT" NOT "selfie."

It's relatively easy, and you can make it as fun or as serious as you want. Think about what you want it to represent about yourself.

Here's a blog about how to take self portraits with your iPhone (or any smart phone), but it's kind of serious:

https://iphonephotographyschool.com/self-portraits/

Here's another one:

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/self-portrait-tips,review-4621.html

Here are some ideas for cool self portraits:

https://www.format.com/magazine/resources/photography/cool-self-portrait-ideas

Here are some examples:

https://photography.tutsplus.com/articles/100-seriously-cool-self-portraits-and-tips-to-shoot-your-own--photo-5689

Does it need to be serious? No. You can make it fun.
Can you use props? Sure, as long as they're school appropriate.

Think about you and what represents you.

Here's one I took a few years ago. It was a deadline night. I was exhausted and waiting for kids to hand pages in so I could edit them, and all I really wanted was a strong latte. You can see there's a mess of things behind me, which typically happens on a deadline night.

AND I had bangs. I'm still trying to decide if I want to do bangs again or not. What do you think?

When you're done with yours, put it on this google doc:

Put your self portrait and then a short paragraph or a few sentences of how it represents you or why you chose to do your photo that way.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Dpzt5r6h6Tt88VRRU3sY0nl9LafzozZvsJJXgEPmuc/edit

This is due on Monday, May 11th.

As always, if you need ANYTHING, please let me know!!