day 2: how to shoot a news event...batteries? disk space? be prepared to shoot a lot of photographs....
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Day 2:
How to Shoot a News Event
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What is News? • “New information about specific and timely event.”
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Spot News • News that just happened or continues to unfold as the reporter watches.
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Feature News • Feature news is about a topic or news event that already took place, which bears more explanation.
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Impact, Interest
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Preparing to Shoot
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Go early ifpossible
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Batteries? Disk space? Be prepared to shoot a lot of photographs. Be sure you have fresh batteries and adequate disk space to store your photos. It’s always better to have several photos to choose from. Best
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Getting Access
Ask before the event.
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Covering the event
Be invisible to others.
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Fill the Frame
Get closer.
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Think About the Foreground Having something in the foreground, such as the top rails of this fence, helps frame the subjects.
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Mind the Background
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Room to Run
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Leading Lines A road, a log, a valley, or in this case, a rope, all can lead into the photo from the foreground to a point of interest.
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Rule of Thirds
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Vertical or Horizontal?
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Try a Different
Perspective
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Editing in the Field
Save
Delete
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Did you get theshot?
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