For anyone who has or knows a budding young photographer!! Check it out and pass it around, please! Photojournalism Workshop for High School Students (July 20-24, 2015) Date: July 20-24, 2015 Intended Audience High school students who are seriously interested in exploring a career in photography/photojournalism. Overview This workshop is specially designed for high school students who have a strong desire to transform their pictures from simple snapshots into effective and interesting storytelling photographs. This rigorous, hands-on workshop will emphasize the storytelling aspects of photojournalism while also instilling strong technical fundamentals. It will consist of five intense days of instruction using state-of-art facilities at Rochester Institute of Technology’s nationally acclaimed School of Photographic Arts and Sciences photojournalism laboratories. The workshop will include multiple field trips organized to expose attendees to photographing people on location. This workshop welcomes young participants who are interested in a unique experience that will introduce them to the real world of photojournalism and could set in motion a career path in this field. Several past attendees have gone on to attend RIT or other universities to pursue careers in photojournalism. Group critiques and one-on-one sessions from the School’s world acclaimed faculty will be daily activities. You Will Learn: Basic Digital Capture - proper exposure, color balance Basic Composition and Lighting Basic Camera Controls - shutter speed, aperture, & depth of field Basic Hand-held Flash Techniques Basic Visual Story-telling Basic Techniques for approaching/photographing strangers Program Outline Through daily lectures, critiques, demos and daily assignments the instructors help students learn basic technical skills along with basic photojournalistic skills, visual story-telling techniques and to always consider the storyline when making photographs. Multimedia Links youtu.be/wdvqC88-Y10 blurb/bookstore/detail/2353667 Instructor William Snyder is a four-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, editor, manager and educator. He graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology with highest honors and a BS in photography. He returned to RIT in 2008 to teach and also serves as the Chair of the Photojournalism Program. Following graduation from RIT in 1981, Snyder began working for The Miami News where he covered many of the citys major news stories. In 1983 Snyder moved to The Dallas Morning News where he won three Pulitzer Prizes along with numerous other awards during his 15 years as a staff photographer. In 1989 Snyder became an Assignment and Photo Editor and, in 2005, was named Director of Photography. Under his direction, the DMN photography staff won dozens of awards from the Texas Headliners Foundation, Pictures of The Year Internationally, NPPAs Best of Photojournalism and Best Use of Photography in addition to other state and national awards. The photography department was awarded the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News Photography for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina. williamsnyderphotography Program fee: $500
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