Attention Students!
This week you will receive information regarding a photo contest we will have to encourage you to continue developing your skills as photographers. You will each be required (for a grade) to take new photos, and you will enter your three best photos into different categories for the contest. You will only be graded on three photos, but you will have to take many photos to get three that are submission worthy.
The categories are the following (taken from the "Big Photo Ideas" guide from Jostens):
1. Get an angle: Great yearbook photos should take the reader to someplace they can not go to themselves. Shooting from a different angle helps do just that.
2. Have to have emotion: We have always believed that the best pictures in the yearbook have one of two things - either great emotion or action.
3. Action is a must: Your photo has no emotion? Then it has to have action. Stop that action anyway you can. It turly grabs the reader.
4. Get close: No matter what you are taking a picture of, your pictures will attract the reader's eye that much better if you get closer to your subject.
5. Show the eyes: the poets say that "the eyes are the windows to the soul." Take this to heart when you shoot or choose photos.
The photos will be due Monday, May 10th.
Information about the journalism and drama courses offered at Oshkosh Christian and Valley Christian High School.
