What makes a strong visual image? What is the thing a photograph can capture that is unique?

Our goal today is to identify what makes a strong visual image and to think about what makes a photo unique compared to other types of media.

We will examine these questions by looking at the following websites from the The Times Lens Blog.  Each capture NYC from a different photographer.

Pick one blog to look through and identify 2-3 photos that you find to be visually strong/appealing.

• What do you like about it?
• What did the photographer do that made it appealing to you?
• Why do you think it is a strong photo?

Be prepared to share with the class.

1. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/breaking-down-the-beast/

2. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/11/they-know-they-are-being-watched/

3. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/29/finding-the-moments-new-yorkers-ignore/

4. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/12/dark-light-and-constant-change/

5. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/the-lonesome-ghosts-of-a-citys-past/

6. http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/24/big-pictures-for-a-big-city/

Historic Photos of Park Slope

Your task today is to search through the Broklyn Collection: a digital gallery of Historic photos of Park Slope. Follow the link below and look through as many photos as possible.

The goal of this is to help us to understand what we will be photographing as we walk through Park Slope on Thursday.

While we are on our walk we want to keep two things in mind:

1. We are gathering more research about the story of the neighborhood -- where can we see the past in our walk? What is the story of the present?


2. What is the neighborhood's character?   The historic photos will help you see what the neighborhood character used to be like.   http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/brooklyncollection   Type Park Slope into the search