Photojournalism Group Project

This week we are try photojournalism, and we are to do some group work with other classmates to collect photographs that would illustrate an article such as would be in a newspaper or a magazine.

Our group is rather scattered with two living in the Abilene area, one about fifty miles east and another member many miles further to the east. We realized that it would be difficult to cover a local news story, so we looked for stories on-line.

Also, we did not know everyone on the group. I had met two of the four members, but did not know them very well....and we just had a week to get the project together.....so there was not a lot of time to see what the common interests would be.

We started thinking about food and sports and came up with an article that seems to address the issues of how diet drinks can affect health issues. Our challenge to each other is to see if we can come up with three photograph each, take them to the digital darkroom of Photoshop for processing, and to make captions for each of the three pictures.

We had planned to have our first meeting in Second Life on Tuesday at 7 p.m., but the system was down, much to our dismay. We were able to communicate on the thread for our group that our teacher had started, and we used some e-mail on the webCT to set up another time. We decided to try to meet at 7 p.m. on Wednesday night. Three of us were able to meet and to come up with a plan of action. We also designated a leader, who took charge and helped us to get organized.

We decided that we would all try to have our three pictures ready by next Sunday evening. We plan to post our three pictures to the webCT by 6 p.m. Sunday so that we will have time to look them over before our meeting in Second Sife at 7 p.m. on Sunday night. At that time we will choose the ones from each member to submit to illustrate the article for the assignment.

I will admit that this task seemed a bit daunting at first, since the committee members were so scattered, we did not know what would interest each other, and to find a subject that all of us could cover in the short amout of time given. Fortunately, we were able to get the ball rolling and it seems like a "do-able" task now.

Now, we just have to get out there and take several photos so that we can process at least three of them, and to caption caption them by Sunday night.