Captions and their important role in pictures.

    Captions
   Why do we need them? Why are they important? Well its simple: captions identify the people who are in them, the place where photos were taken.
   The caption should not be more than two sentence long. The first sentence describes the people from left to right, and is where it was taken. This is to make it easy for people looking at the photo to know whats going on. The second sentence of the caption gives other background information on the photo, mostly in past tense.The last part is to give credit to the person who took the photo.

     The idea is to make it short and sweet and to the point.

The First Amendment and the five rights we were given

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

      What the First Amendment means to me is no one has the right to censor you. We as people of the United States have the right to challenge the world around us and give our opinions. We have a right to our beliefs and should always stick by them.
     After going over the First Amendment in my photojournalism class, I remembered that we learned this in junior high school. However, I had forgotten it because I didn't think it was that important. Now that I'm in a photojournalism class and the Arts and Entertainment editor on the Owens Outlook newspaper, I realize just how important and precious these freedoms can be. 

So heres a little piece me as I'm learning something new every day.

lacie hayek

   My name is Lacie. I am a photography student at Owens Community College, and editor of Arts and Entertainment on the Owens Outlook Newspaper.
   I have  recently become interested in photojournalism. Originally, I was a music major, for many years before studying photography. I've studied the arts at the Toledo School for the Arts and the French Woods Festival of the Performing Arts in Hancock, NewYork.
   I first became interested in photography at French Woods Festival in black and white film and the love of it grew from there. Being at camp my lens found its place in the arts. My first  photos were of the circus, musicals, horses, and dance everything besides sports. The arts for me is home it's where I fine the most joy in life. 

   One day I hope to write and take photos about music and the arts in a newspaper or magazine.