Photo Essay Evaluation

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Name ______________________

Choose a photo essay on the NYTIMES LENS BLOG at http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/

Title of story_____________________________________________________

Date stamp and time (next to title/headline) _______________________________

Look at the accompanying photographs and evaluate 3 photographs that are included in the story.

FIRST IMAGE

Sketch the image below

Describe the image and write the first few words of the caption:

What first catches your eye in this image?

What compositional techniques are used? (shape, repetition, pos/neg space, etc)

What are the active choices the photographer made? Describe the framing, distance, orientation, lighting, angles, etc.

What do you like best about the image?

What is something that this photo does that you would like to incorporate into your own photographs? How would you do that? Describe what you would do:

 SECOND IMAGE

Sketch the image

Describe the image and write the first few words of the caption:

What first catches your eye in this image?

What compositional techniques are used? (shape, repetition, pos/neg space, etc)

What are the active choices the photographer made? Describe the framing, distance, orientation, lighting, angles, etc.

What do you like best about the image?

What is something that this photo does that you would like to incorporate into your own photographs? How would you do that? Describe what you would do:

THIRD IMAGE

Sketch the image

Describe the image and write the first few words of the caption:

What first catches your eye in this image?

What compositional techniques are used? (shape, repetition, pos/neg space, etc)

What are the active choices the photographer made? Describe the framing, distance, orientation, lighting, angles, etc.

What do you like best about the image?

What is something that this photo does that you would like to incorporate into your own photographs? How would you do that? Describe what you would do:

 

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