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Challenge 14: Photojournalism (hosted by Shutter)

Challenge 14 - Eligible
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Sony Forums Challenges25-Mar-2002 04:50
pho·to·jour·nal·ism Pronunciation Key (f t -jûr n -l z m)
n.

Journalism in which a news story is presented primarily through photographs with supplementary written copy.

n : journalism that presents a story primarily through the use of pictures


Let’s tell a story. A picture is worth a 1,000 words, right? Let’s prove it. I don’t know about you, but as much as I enjoy shooting landscapes, my ultimate experience is when I can tell a story or convey a meaning through my photography. But, there are ethical issues for some with traditional photojournalism, so we are going to paint with a broad brush on this one.

There are so many ways to tell a story through photography – some requiring extensive copy, some may be through a one word caption, others may be through a pictorial. Maybe you have a gift for poetry – combine a poem with a photograph. Grandma and Grandpa’s 50th wedding anniversary – a black and white pictorial of special moments from the day. Traditionalist – get out there on the beat. Don’t want reality – make up a story…….. endless possibilities. Be creative. Be digital. Be real. Be fake. Be funny. Be serious….. you get the point. (A good example of a “fake” pictorial would be CindyD’s submission, Cokes in the Wild, from the Coke challenge)

How will this challenge work? Well, you may want to do a pictorial, which may mean 3 or so photos. You don’t want to waste all your entries on one story, so pictorials will be treated differently. Let’s try and keep pictorials to three images, and please try to resize them to 800x600 at the larges. Let’s be considerate of bandwidth and storage on pbase. So, you could actually submit 9 pictures if you choose to submit three pictorials.

CHALLENGE DURATION:

3/24/02 2:00 PM – 4/9/02 11:59 PM CST. This leaves two full weekends as well as a couple days to process photos after the last weekend. Some may think this is too long, but I really think this may require a bit more time.

CATEGORIES:

1.Eligible, Which must be shot within the time period (starting 3/24/02 2:00 PM – 4/9/02 11:59 PM CST) using a Sony Digicam. The winner of which will name the topic, and run the next Challenge.

2. Exhibition, Any time period, any camera.

VOTING:

Voting will last for 48 hours (is that enough?) beginning at the conclusion of the challenge period (4/9/02 11:59 PM CST). Voting will be the same as C13 - 15 total points, vote for THREE entries only, none getting more than 10 points.

HOW TO POST:
Request username/password by email from jimfuglestad@hotmail.com

SOME GENERAL NOTES:

- because of the possible use of pictorials, it will be imperative to announce that a photo is part of a pictorial and to number them in order. I may end up creating galleries for pictorials, I'll have to see how this goes.

- again, because of pictorials, it will be imperative that some photos remain next to each other. I'm not sure how I'm going to do this yet, but it may result in the intentional/unintentional movement of photos. PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH THIS!!!

- Please feel free to contact me via email (jimfuglestad@hotmail.com) with any questions, thoughts, concerns, etc.....

I hope to continue discussions on some of the ethical/legal issues of photojournalism throughout this challenge. Let’s not just share photos, lets learn about our art.

Again, thanks everyone for your appreciation of Diehard, Running Solo and 3 Minnesota Stooges. I am indeed proud of all three. It is an honor to be selected host of C14, and I will do my best to ensure that all runs fine.

So, TELL ME A STORY!!!!
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