Snapseed in Just a Snap!

The free Snapseed photo processing app is my favorite tool for giving pictures more pop. A friend in my photography club Carolinas' Nature Photographers Association (CNPA) told me about Snapseed a few years ago and I've come to really like it.

The processing tools I really like to bring in are the high dynamic range or HDR filters. These can truly make images more dynamic with great vibrancy and luminosity. Here are three examples from my recent trip to Chicago:

The HDR effects really work well outside on cloudy days. A little processing in Snapseed and you can produce dramatic images like these:

Comparing Top Newspaper Front Pages

In our Copy Editing class today we are doing an exercise to study and comment about newsworthiness. This in the sense of how newspaper editors decide what to put on their front pages.

Using the Newseum website that daily has hundreds of newspaper front pages every day, I selected three of the nation's largest circulating newspaper in the country. They are the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the New York Times.

Front page of the LA Times today 

Today's Los Angeles Times front page for Thursday, Jan. 24 has five news stories.

There are three "above the fold" stories. Most prominent is "Trump retreats as Pelosi delays State of the Union." Beneath that time is a story headlined "Cohen Delays Hearing, Citing Threats.” Also above the fold is a report about the just-resolved LA teachers' strike.

The front page is rounded out with a piece about Venezuela's new president receiving support from U.S. President Trump and a column about Tuesday's Oscar nominations.

2019 Spring Semester Begins!

I took this photo during my Electronic Media Production II class as a way to show the students how to import photographs into a Blogger blog post.  I love the variety of expressions!

Photo taken in Crawford Communications Room 203. Teachers always like the front row sitters! 

The spring semester is underway here at SC State University.  Good luck everyone!