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Protected: Class 3/31: Guest Appearance from Tracey Berg-Fulton (Community Manager, AuthenticJobs) and Pat Fulton (Front-End Developer, Sparkbox).

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Pat Fulton and Tracey Berg met in Pittsburgh in the early 2000's. Pat was finishing a degree in journalism from Point Park College (now Point Park University). Tracey was a photographer. We all met going to punk/DIY shows in pgh, and helped to build a short-lived online publication/community/record label/event promoter in Western PA called Pittpunk. Then they fell in love and got married and bought a house and got a dog and everything.

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Class 2/20: Introducing Photo Galleries

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In class, we discussed the different types of photos that you might include in a photo essay for your upcoming assignment. The photo essay is a form made famous in TIME magazine, where photographers like Ansel Adams and W Eugene Smith made some of the most important contributions to the genre. Incidentally, many wedding photographers essentially use the tools of the photo essay. Inspired by this post on Poynter (as well as some discussion of it here), let's take a look at a photo gallery produced for an NPR story on health care for some examples of the different sorts of photos (or illustrations!) in multimedia publications. https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=44&v=N_3m52fzBV0

 

The different shots that the Poynter article identifies here are a scene-setter, a medium shot, a portrait, an action shot, a macro/detail. 

Poynter's description is in italics, mine in standard font.