The Photojournalist’s Toolkit with Thomas Alleman (Hybrid Learning – Six Sessions)

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Hybrid Learning

This class serves as an introductory course in photojournalism methods and conventions for students who’ve achieved “advanced beginner” status, at least. Through demonstrations and exercises, students will learn about the camera techniques that are best suited to the situations a photojournalist will be assigned to cover: breaking news, the scheduled news event, the feature situation, sports, and the portrait.

Essential to the success of then photojournalist on such assignments is pre-planning, which will be discussed at length, and follow-through: the gathering of caption information on-site, and the editing, preparation and delivery of files on deadline. We’ll give special attention to the ethics and best practices a photojournalist must practice in the field, and industry guidelines for the ethical use of Photoshop in image creation.

Students will be presented with the work of dozens of photojournalists working today
and in the past, learning about the visual vocabulary of the photojournalism style and the means by which information and feeling is communicated.

Thomas Alleman is a commercial, editorial and fine art photographer living and working in Los Angeles. During a 15 year newspaper career, Tom was a frequent winner of distinctions from the National Press Photographer’s Association, as well as being named California Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1995 and Los Angeles Newspaper Photographer of the Year in 1996. As a magazine freelancer, his pictures have been published regularly in Time, People, Business Week, Barrons, Smithsonian National Geographic Traveler, and US News & World Report, and have also appeared in Brandweek, Sunset, Harper’s and Travel Holiday.

View instructor profile here.

Details

• Six Sessions
• Dates:
  Wednesday, October 7, 6 pm – 9 pm (online)
  Wednesday, October 14, 6 pm – 9 pm (online)
  Saturday, October 17, 10 am – 1 pm (in-person)
  Wednesday, October 21, 6 pm – 9 pm (online)
  Saturday, October 24, 10 am – 1 pm (in-person)
  Wednesday, October 28, 6 pm – 9 pm (online)
• Enrollment Limit: 10 students
• Skill/Experience Level: Students should have a working knowledge of their camera.
• Tuition: $595 (Become a Member today and receive 5% to 20% off!)
• Location: Hybrid class online via ZOOM and in-person

A details email complete with the Zoom link will be sent to the attendees prior to the start date. If you have additional questions please email info@lacphoto.org.

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