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College Station, Texas
Wednesday, October 12, 1966
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First Photographs Devilishly Band
By LEROY SHAFER
“Two weeks ago we cudn’t
spale fotogerfer. Now we y'
are one,” so reads the sign f
on the bulletin board dis- ' ^
play outside the photogra- / /
phy lab. : f/
And it’s true
Two weeks ago only a few /~ :
of the 55 students enrolled j / | s
in the photography course ¥
(Journalism 315) knew how
to put film in a camera. The
pictures on this page show
what a command of photo
graphy they have gained
after only one week of in
struction.
These pictures are a select
few of those produced by ■ ,
students during their first
week of photography lab.
This is the Jack Boggan
brand of photography! Bog
gan, a journalism instructor,
teaches the increasingly pop
ular photography course that
meets one hour of lecture and
three hours of lab weekly.
Boggan’s lecture is filled
with photographic techni
ques combined with personal
philosophy about what makes
a good photograph. Photo
graphs turned in for weekly
assignments are graphic ex
amples of his teaching know
how.
“If you just want to learn
to take family-album pic
tures, drop the course,” Bog
gan tells his students at the
beginning. “Come by to see
me between classes and I can
teach you that in 10 min
utes.”
“On the other hand, if you
want to learn to take drama
tic, story-telling pictures that
have impact, then you’re en
rolled in the right course,”
he quickly adds.
The course enrollment has
doubled since Boggan start
ed teaching last fall. Sixty- ^
one students were enrolled
last spring and approximate
ly forty were turned away at
registration because of limit
ed lab facilities.
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dents at one time.
To allow each student a
chance to get to one of the
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or one of the ten enlargers
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that his students enjoy the
lab work so much that he # ^
often has trouble closing the \**
lab at the end of the day.
“Every time a student
works in the lab, he learns 1
a new trick of the trade. I’m
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glad they enjoy it enough to
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work. I feel this is one
the main reasons for the stu
dents’ success in the course,”
Boggan said.
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their way into the trash can,
and many sheets of photo
graphic paper are used in
vain during the first week of
lab.
Some students only get one
good print the first week.
With a little experience they
are able to produce a dozen
good prints in a matter of
minutes.
Tragedy in the darkroom
comes in many forms. Most
are exasperating at the time,
but later become the topic
for a good laugh.
For instance, the time a
student was in complete
darkness putting his film in
to the developing tank. He
was pleased that things had
gone so smoothly in his first
try at developing a roll of
film. To his disbelief he
turned on the light and
found his film lying ruined
on the floor — he had placed
the protective wrapper in
the, developing tank.
“One of the biggest prob
lems students must solve,”
said Boggan, “is to think
creatively and to learn to see
things as dramatically as the
camera does.”
Students soon learn crea
tively and begin to see great
possibilities in a pile of con
struction materials or excit
ing facial expressions that
can be captured candidly at
football games.
Boggan’s students have
won numerous awards in
photography contests.
“It was the most work I’ve
ever done in a two-hour
course, but it was the most
fun I’ve ever had in any
course,” quips one of Bog
gan’s photography students.
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