American Soldier slide show and captions

A. What is the most powerful image from the slideshows? Why?

The most powerful image was # 47, Because Lan had a moment to say his last goodbyes to Buddha and Cody before he left back and get ready to go to Iraq.   

B. Through the photos, Ian is in different locations, each set of photos from the same location comprise a short series or set.

Set #1 At home in Denver -  from image #1 to image #9

Set #2 At Basic Training -  from image #16 to image #30
Set #3 In Iraq -  from image #51 to image #70
Set #4 Back in Denver -  from image#71 to image # 83

Which set of images was the most powerful? Why? 

 Set of images was the most powerful were set #2 and set #3 because  is when he went trough some hard and sad moments like on set #3 picture # 56 is when he found out that his girlfriend had cheated on him with another guy while he was in Iraq .

c. How do the images work together to tell a story?

 They start from the beginning where Ian is enlisting into the Army from going off to basic training, back home, flying overseas to Iraq, and back home. The images are all numbered off to how Ian progresses in his life as he joins the Army.

3. Underneath each photo is the caption that ran in the Denver Post

A. For the photos in which Ian is the main subject of the photos, in what tense are the verbs usually written?

B. How do the captions enhance the photographs?

4. Now its your turn to write a few captions - DO NOT COPY THEIR WRITING

A. Write three of your own captions to photos without looking at the caption written by the photographer. Be sure they are written in the following form. For this assignment you can make up names and facts to write your captions.
First sentence:

Subject -- action verb (present tense) -- object -- how -- why -- when -- where.

Optional second sentence:

Subject -- verb (past tense) -- object (describes background [context] of the situation shown in picture.)

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A. How do these other features enhance the photographs?

B. In what ways are videos better than photographs? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site.

C. In what ways are photos better than videos? Provide an example from the Denver Post Web site.

1. What challenges did you encounter while trying to get the photos following the rules I set out for you? 

2. What technical aspects of photography or the assignment in general (focus, framing, holding the camera, etc.) did you find yourself thinking about the most? Provide a specific example of what you did to do this correctly.

3. If you could do the assignment again, what would you do differently now that you know some basic rules of photography?
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4. What things would you do the same?
out what that rule is?

5. When you go out with your next set of prompts, which rule do you think will be the easiest to achieve?


6. Which rule do you think will be the hardest to capture?


7. What rule are you still not totally clear on and what can you do to figure out what that rule is?