Jacob's Photo Journalism Blog

Reser Stadium at what looks like half capacity. Corvallis, Oregon 10/26/17 A father holding his child waiting for the next play. Corvallis, Oregon 10/26/17 Ominous police officer looking down as Stanford players assemble. Corvallis, Oregon 10/26/17

  Welcome to Bloktoberfest: Corvallis, Oregon at Block 15 Wild Hog in the Woods playing their lineup The band with its audience Band member of Wild Hogs in the Woods displaying two beers                                                                                                                                                                                              

     As a new photographer, I've noticed when you take a good shot you'll notice.  Whether your photograph is the next Mona Lisa, you will find something wrong with it.  You can have something moving between your shots, have lighting issues, or in my regard boring shots. There will always be something you can critique as a new photographer, you're new, you might not understand the basics of your camera model, and that's entirely okay. Self-Critiquing is important to find out what you can improve upon.        In my two examples, I'll try to explain what I could have done better and what I did wrong.  I'm still a new photographer and have many things to learn and critiquing myself is a way of learning from one's past mistakes. Example #1                                           Long line at the Oregon State campus Dutch Bros for $1 coffee                   I would consider E#1 my best picture so far, as it illustrates a multitude of people in

 This book has brought many of my worst nightmares and dreams come to life. Even in just two small chapters of 49 pages, this autobiography brings the life of a photographic journalist to the minds of the reader in an understandable light.  With the prelude chapter, telling of Lynsey's experiences covering the Libyan Civil War, I think it really shows how photographic journalists have to deal with their personal ethics and fears. Lynsey, in my utmost opinion, describes this on the first page of the prelude "I picked up my camera to shoot what I had shot so many times before, then put it back down, stepping aside to let the other photographers have their turn. I couldn't do it that day". Prelude pg. 1  I was in a way, touched by that quote. The words she chose for that passage symbolized what she had already captured in her lens, Lynsey sees the opportunity of photographic evidence of a war-torn nation but is stopped by something, could this happen to correlate wi

                  William Eugene Smith He was considered the originator and developing the photo essay into a sophisticated form. He was fired from Newsweek for refusing to use a medium format camera, thus joining Life magazine in 1939 using a 35mm camera. Was a war correspondent for Flying magazine (1943-1944), and a year later Life. He covered the US island hopping of the pacific front, capturing some of the most emotional and groundbreaking photos from the war in the pacific front.     Standing out                    With every photograph you look at of W. Eugene Smith's, you notice the complexity and emotions in an utmost                      heartbeat. He captured everyday events into something new and special. Claim to fame           W. Eugene Smith has been seen as the originator of sophisticated photo essays that can tell a story with great ease.                                     

Long line at the Oregon State campus Dutch Bros for $1 coffee   Memorial Union lit up at night