PHOTOJOURNALISM

•What comes to your mind when you hear the word photojournalism?

Two Words1. Photo - picture2. Journalism - story

Photojournalism is literally defined as a picture story or a story picture.

PHOTOJOURNALISM

Photojournalistic Question: What does the picture tell?

•It gives information about people and events as in news story;

•It entertains as in feature story;

•It gives an opinion about issues as in editorial;

•It presents dynamic action as in sports story.

The Golden Hours

The Direction Of Light

Train yourself to notice and to use aesthetically the direction of your

light source.

LOWER HORIZON

MIDDLE HORIZON

UPPER HORIZON

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HORIZON - characterized by horizontal line

LOWER HORIZON

UPPERHORIZON

LEFT THIRD

MIDDLE THIRD

RIGHT THIRD

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RULE OF THIRD - characterized by three columns

The man and the tunaare not placed in the center to emphasizethe rule of third

The sun and the boat are not placed in the center to illustrate right third

Rule of Thirds

- giving your subject off-center emphasis

[1] Divide the picture area into three equal parts, both horizontally and vertically. The dividing lines will create four intersecting points which are called the intersection of thirds.

The intersection of thirds

[2] Place your subject (or some important element of your image) at or near any of the intersections.

Foreground and Background

Background must not be cluttered with distracting details

SUBJECT

FOREGROUND

BACKGROUND

Background blur

Foreground blur

The red umbrella breaks the pattern of women in black robes and white veils

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BREAKING THE PATTERN - put something

different to break uniformity

The surfer breaks the pattern of waves

The tree at the right side of the nipa hut serves

as a frame

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FRAMING - the use of objects or structures to support as frame of

the subject

The diagonal position shows dynamism and captures the effort of the young musicians in producing music with their instrument.

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ANGULARITY - the use of diagonal line to illustrate a dynamic perspective

ANT’S EYEVIEW:taken from below for imposing effectof the subject

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EYEVIEW - the perspective

BIRD’S EYEVIEW:taken from above to show a panorama of the subject

TYPES OF SHOTS

ELS: Extreme Long ShotPerson in surroundings

LS: Long ShotWhole body

MS: Medium ShotWaist up

TYPES OF SHOTS

MCU: Medium close-up Mid chest up

CU: Close upHead & shoulders

TYPES OF SHOTS

ECU: Extreme close-up Face or eyes

Shoot from various

viewpoints

FREEZING MOVEMENT

When you want to freeze movement, there are factors other than shutter speed which you have to consider:

subject distance; Focal length of the lens; and direction of the movement.

GUIDELINES IN USING THE PHOTOS

Avoid “firing squad” photos. Use action photos.

Crop a picture intelligently:

Look for the very focal point of interest. Have only one point of interest. In portraits, emphasize details such as

eyes. Leave some space on the side towards

the subject is facing. (rule of thirds)

GUIDELINES IN USING THE PHOTOS

In a group photo, each face should not be smaller than a 25-centavo piece.

People in pictures should be looking in towards the center of paper.

Sacrifice the body to play up the face. Don’t place the cuts on the fold. Use proper captioning.

USING CAPTIONS

Use bigger, bold types than the usual body type.

Write simple captions, except for a caption story.

Have the picture in front of you when you “caption” it.

Describe what is happening without being obvious.

Avoid opinions.

USING CAPTIONS

Say when or where the picture is made. Avoid expressions such as “is pictured”.Use the present the tense to describe

action.If all persons are identified, check the

number of people against the number in the caption.

Check agreement of verb tenses with adverbs of time.

REQUIEM FOR HEROES. Rescuers dig out of the muddy rubble the bodies of a fireman, an engineer and a volunteer who died trying to save the victims of a landslide at Sitio Buyagan in La Trinidad, Benguet, on Friday. EV ESPIRITU/INQUIRER NORTHERN LUZON

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The best photograph

can’t be produced by the hi-tech camera if not of the

photo-journalist’s sharp eyes and mind.

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