Saturday, 20 April 2013

What would you rather be? a photographer? a travel writer?

Remember it is very important that you post your writings on the pictures you selected. To help those who do not know where to start, I am posting the sample description of a photo, written by the photographer who took the picture:

"About 7:00am I was down by the river. Walked around took a few shots and wasn't really pleased with what I shot. So I packed up and started to leave when I came across the falls and thought to myself while the sun is still low why not try to open my shutter up and see what this looks like, I took about 6 shots but this one was the first one and my favorite I knew when I took it, it was special."
Location: Jeffersonville, IN United States
Author: Dante Cooper




Here are also a couple of videos that will give you an idea of what it takes to be a professional photographer and a travel writer. If you could choose any of them, which one would you choose? Why? Think in terms of your actual skills and lifestyle to support your ideas and choose a point of view for your photo description. Remember you need to use a rubrics and make sure your work covers the criteria detailed in the one you are using. Check your Grammar and Spelling before posting your work!!!

The typical day of a photographer....


Portrait of a travel writer...


I hope this material enhances your motivation to write!

As for the reading exercise you had for homework last week, it would be great if you posted your answers to the questions here so everybody could read them and check their own answers so we'd save a lot of time!

2 comments:

  1. Between to be a photographer or a travel writer, I prefer to be a photographer, because I love photos, these for me are the first time machine, when I saw a photo I can feel the environment in the picture, the fragrance, the sound, and bring back memorize sometimes happy sometimes sad, but in both cases is a good experiences.
    I do not if I have abilities to take photos in an artistic or professional way, I only enjoy recollect good times with friends, with family, in important events, in amazing places, in a beautiful view, in the nature, or when I see something unusual, interesting or beautiful.
    I would like take a photographer course because I want to control the shining in my picture or the movement and bad frame, I desire learn to fix a camera or understand how this operate and know how have gone change the style or feature of professional cameras throw the time.
    I would like to be a travel write too, and inspire people to visit places that I described in my post or text, but I think my abilities for writing are worse that my visual abilities.
    Answer page 125.
    1. - I think the advice in my text is realistic and interesting, live like a travel writer is not easy.
    2.- The text is for people who want to make a living doing these things, because it speak about the condition in the job, the good things and the difficulties, time that you have to invest, kind of things that you cannot do, how you have to write and until where you have to arrive to enter in your readers.
    3. - Neither of both is easy, you have to have certain skills to be good in whatever of those professions.
    4. - I would like to be a photographer, my reasons are up.
    5.- No =(

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  2. Good job! Thanks for participating!

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