This year I have had the opprotunity to become a photo editor and lead a team of four photojournalists. Three of the four were new to the class and had never worked on a publication (like a yearbook or newspaper) before. My work began over the summer before this school year began, when I worked with my adviser and fellow editors to plan out and set the ground work for the year and for our publications. I had to create a new way to organize photos and captions for my team that worked not only for me, but made it easy for them to accomplish more work. I have also gained the ability to teach skills in Photoshop like cutouts, color replacement and layering. I taught members of my team the basics of Lightroom like scropping and controlling white balance as well as highlights and lighting levels. I developed new skills this year, a lot of which centered around videography. Because of these new skills, I had the opprotunity to share my self-taught skills in Adobe Premiere with a fellow editor who was attempting to develop a news show for our new website.
Because many of the photojournalists in our class were new, we had some people that were inexperienced in photography, so sometimes I had the job of telling people that their photos were not usable. But intstead of just telling them their photos were horrible, I attempted to find something in their photo essay that was good (even if the photo wasn't good) and praise them for that, and then tell them we needed new pictures. My group had photo assignments for events and clubs that I would not necessarily have picked (and even though my team knew this). Despite this,they still saw my determination to work toward getting photos for every assignment we had.
