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2. START HERE –
White balance your camera
BEFORE AFTER

3. Photo planning
Ask readers what they want
Conduct surveys, interviews and focus groups
Uncover ways to work their ideas into the book
Tell both individual and collective stories
One-of-a-kind experiences
Common activities and events
Brainstorm fresh angles and new ideas
Discover new angles to repeated stories
Add stories that have not appeared in the book

4. The Graphic Organizer
Cover PEOPLE & GROUPS OF PEOPLE involved with event.

5. The 2nd Graphic Organizer
Person by person, or group by group,
write down everything they do

6. Find your
focus
• Plan photo coverage
• Schedule interviews

7. Make sure to cover things
and immediately after the event
that happen before the event,
during the event,

8. Using a red marker, circle activities that would
make great photos

9. BEFORE

10. BEFORE

11. BEFORE

12. DURING

13. AFTER

14. AFTER

15. AFTER

16. organizing
content
on a spread

17. Full Cast Number
Transformation
Crew Chorus-- speaking Leads
parts

18. plan
photocoverage
dominant secondary secondary
Shape: Shape: Shape:
# of subjects: # of subjects: # of subjects:
Special techniques: Special techniques: Special techniques:
Suggested content: Suggested content: Suggested content:

19. plan
photopackages
WHY? Packages include more students in the book.

20. Vary the number of people in photos on the spread
36 TOTAL
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Leads
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21. reflection
• one person

22. nclude more people in your book by varying the number
of subjects in the photos.

23. relationship
• two people

24. Photos feature two people often show relationships

25. interaction
• three people

26. Photos with THREE people show camaraderie

27. action
• four or more people

28. Small groups show cooperation and/or interaction

29. Larger group shots give & overview & perspective

30. Anticipate the moment.

35. Find a different angle.

40. Use rule of thirds.

45. Use leading lines.

52. Fill the frame.
If your photos aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.
--Frank Capa

57. Look for dramatic lighting.

61. Include establishing shots.

64. Use framing.

69. Look for repetition.

73. Stop the action.
Keep the ball in the shot.

78. Look for emotion.

83. Use the aperture to give a strong
center of focus.

87. Let’s look at more great shots.
See if you can identify the photocomposition techniques

121. Special Thanks
Kiski High School’s photographers
& adviser Paul Fantaski
Legacy High School’s photographers
& adviser Leland Mallett
McKinney High School’s photographers
& adviser Lori Oglesbee
Shawnee Mission North’s photographers
& adviser Becky Tate

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