Page 4 College Station, Texas Wednesday, October 12, 1966 THE BATT/ SL: 1 t !i|if f 'dl 6 " .'i !; .. 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. A&M’s lab, termed one of .. the best among Southwest Ill is! s J* : " / / 4 id! 906 Ife L 1- ■ ■ r - 0 :xz 7 F This dramatic view of Kyle Field caught the eye of Larry Priesmeyer. Mi A, r !:x r.: P-- «s . R if »r < Mi % M Conference schools, can ac- pi, comodate about fifteen stu- Kirby Heintschel was at the right place at the right time to get this amusing shot. dents at one time. To allow each student a chance to get to one of the five film-developing booths * or one of the ten enlargers in the print room, he holds l ^ 1 several non-scheduled labs ^ |y&'' : A Eatc Y \A •-/ each week. In a proud but perplexed [ manner, Boggan explained A A 1 C.V AAAI Vx X y f-, CA. X A. ^ ^ V A CV A A A VA y ^ 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 5 A v tk glad they enjoy it enough to want to stay in there and iX ‘ ^ Hi work. I feel this is one the main reasons for the stu dents’ success in the course,” Boggan said. Yes, many negatives find The architecture courtyard, as seen by Ralph Clampitt. & 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. THE CAMPUS... As seen by photography students on their first assignment. With can i * wm ^4| '' Y IImMI H.: H-;, xt L iHllsMlill tlifiiMii iHgTt^l^w by^ iT^ W 6 'i S USe