What makes a good photograph?

Here is the criteria that you decided would make a good photograph. These are the characteristics we will look for in critique, these are the things we will use to determine weather your image fails or succeeds. Here they are. Memorize them. Print them out. Tattoo them to your brain.

Good images have control of:
Composition
Contrast
Light
Color
Shutter Speed
Timing

Good photographs also have a good:

Subject Matter
Concept
Focal Point
Unique
Tells a Story
Personality
Meaning
Creativity

Most important, and this is something NO ONE got out of either class, is that what seperates a good photograph from a great one is...WAIT FOR IT...

Emotion

If you can convey emotion through your images, through control of the above listed criteria, you will succeed as a photographer.

I will lecture about many, if not all of the things we listed.