Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/University of Southern Indiana/Digital Photography (Fall 2014)/Course description

Develop basic skills of mass media photography in a digital environment. Students should use their own digital cameras to take color photographs, then crop, edit and produce those photographs in a digital computer laboratory. Emphasis will be on the needs of professional photography as used in print, electronic and digital media.

Assignment
Students will illustrate Wikipedia articles with photographs that they take, edit and submit.

Find a Wikipedia article to illustrate through your own original photography. Do this by searching for content that interests you or is the subject of your portfolio and currently has no photographs. If you don't find this search method satisfying, you can also search through the Category:Wikipedia requested photographs to fulfill an existing request! In both cases you can use Special:Search to make better use of the search function.

Wikimedia Commons offers students a superb opportunity to learn about copyright issues. Students will donate their work under the Creative Commons license. They will also learn about how to acquire photographs from government or other resources that can then be used to illustrate articles.

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