Matthew E. Semrau

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WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Genocide on Campus

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Oakland University is talking about genocide after a student group presented provocative images of death camps, executions, and abortions to campus, last week — April 7th and 8th, 2014.

The Genocide Awareness Project

The exhibit, called the Genocide Awareness Project, was hosted by Students for Life at Oakland University. The exhibit belongs to and is sponsored by The Center for Bio-Ethical Reform which is based in Lake Forest, California.

“I would say that before this display was up here, say a week ago, very few people were really talking about abortion,” Mark Wolf said, a volunteer representing the center. “I would say right now the whole college campus is talking about this.” Mark adds, “It’s started conversations going that weren’t going before.”

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A Tutorial for the Photojournalist

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A quick and easy guide

The folks at the Journalists’ Toolkit have compiled a list of articles from Photo Composition Articles into an easy to understand guide to the basics of photojournalism. In seven links, they address several important aspects of photography that should be considered by every photojournalist (or photographer for that matter.)

The tutorial covers:

  • Simplicity

  • Rule of Thirds

  • Lines

  • Balance

  • Framing

  • And how to avoid mergers

 Included, with each step of the tutorial, are photos and captions briefly explaining the principles covered in the article. This makes the subject material easy to digest and understand. Taking a cue from its first tutorial, the articles are simplistic. There is not large sections of text to digest, but rather a few sentences to each photograph. Most of the photos concisely pull together the concepts being discussed. The entire tutorial should take you no more than half an hour to fully-digest.

 The articles combine technical tips with aesthetics to make sure the photos you select (and take) are aesthetically pleasing. This means that in the process of understand the technical aspects of the photographic concepts, but that the overall impression of the photo to your average audience is pleasing and fitting.

 All of these articles are provided free of charge. They can be easily accessed via the Journalists’ Toolkit website at http://www.jtoolkit.com/photojournalism/ If this tutorial isn’t enough, the Photo Composition Articles website has a plethora of other content regarding photography at http://photoinf.com/

 If you’re looking for an even more succinct overview of the lessons you can checkout my slideshow embeded below.

The Disaster that is Sochi

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