1. Consider the things that you have done and seen in the past week or two. Choose one event or experience and imagine that you were photographing this event or experience. What would be the decisive moment that you would want to capture on film? Why? Explain and illustrate this decisive moment.

2. Your photography instructor has given you the option of using pictorial, straight, or documentary photography to shoot a series of photographs that will serve as your final exam. You are not sure which to choose and want to weigh your options. Identify and demonstrate your knowledge of each by explaining what they are and providing an example of what you might shoot for each category.

3. Nowadays, we often photograph our lives to validate their reality, allowing for digital storage of our visual memories. Some feel that this may impact our ability to fully experience the events of our own lives because we are so busy taking photos of them. Explore and analyze this idea by providing a scenario where taking photos of an event might take away from the experience as well as a scenario where photographing the event might add to entire experience. (These can be from personal experience or made up.)

4. You want to study photojournalism next year at college but your parents, both lawyers, want you to study law. You are preparing an argument for why you should be allowed to study photojournalism to share with them at dinner and want to be prepared to discuss several aspects of the industry. Identify and explain several different aspects of photojournalism that you could use in your argument.

5. Is a photograph an objective representation of reality (something not influenced by the biases and personal feelings of the photographer)? Or is it a subjective representation of reality (influenced by the thoughts, feelings, and biases of the photographer)? Provide examples that would support both of these concepts and analyze and explain them.