• • 10 Photograph Photo Essay – Due Thursday 

Photo essays tell a story in pictures, and there are many different ways to style your own photo essay. With a wide range of topics to explore, a photo essay can be thought-provoking, emotional, funny, unsettling, or all of the above, but mostly, they should be unforgettable.

A photographic essay is a form of visual storytelling, a way to present a narrative through a series of images. A great photo essay is powerful, able to evoke emotion and understanding without using words. A photo essay delivers a story using a series of photographs and brings the viewer along your narrative journey.

You will create a photo essay about a “ PERSON…PLACE… or THING.

For example: Day-in-the-life photo essay: These kinds of photo essays tell the story of a day in the life of a particular subject. They can showcase the career of a busy worker or struggling artist, capture parents’ daily chores and playtime with their children, or memorialize the routine of a star high school athlete. A day-in-the-life photo series can be emotionally evocative, giving viewers an intimate glimpse into the world of another human being.

4 Tips for Creating a Photo Essay

• Creative photography can be fun, sentimental, eye-opening, or gut-wrenching. It can expose a truth or instill a sense of hope. With so many possibilities to share a good photo essay, it’s important to keep the following tips in mind:

• Do your research. There may be many types of photo essay topics available, but that doesn’t mean your specific idea hasn’t already been tackled by a professional photographer. Look up the best photo essays that have already been done on your topic to make sure the narrative can be executed in a new and interesting way.

• Follow your instincts. Take photos of everything. Overshooting can be helpful. You never know what you’ll need, so the more coverage you have, the better.

• Only use the best images. From your lead photo to the final photo, you’re creating a visually vivid story. However, if you use too many images, you risk diluting the impact of your message. Only include the key photos necessary.

• Be open-minded. Your project may evolve past its initial concept, and that’s okay. Sometimes a photo essay evolves organically, and your job as a photojournalist is to extract the right narrative from the images you’ve captured—even if it wasn’t the original idea.

The photo essay will consist of 10 total photos and uploaded to your blog. Also, you will include a short description of the subject you are documenting. One paragraph minimum. Title your blog post “Photo Essay.” Using Adobe Express, create a collage with your ten images. Below is an example. 

• Homecoming Photos – Due Monday October 2nd

Take photos of homecoming activities all week. You need to include your best two of the following:

Lunchtime activities

Dress up days

Carnival

Assembly

For extra credit you can also include your best two of the following:

Parade

Sports events

Dummy Hunt

Bonfire

Powderpuff

Crowning

Dance

Monday October 2nd you will edit and upload these photos. Blog post should be titled “Homecoming Photos” put them in a gallery 2×4 (if you take the extra credit images put them in the same blog post and you will just have more rows), title each photo in the caption area.