DIGITAL PHOTOJOURNALISM

Week 4

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Review Tech

Questions?

Concerns?

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Light Incident vs Reflective... The Smackdown

Distance and Size = Softness

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Your Meter

3 types

Matrix

Center

Spot

Tuesday, 29 January, 13

Your Meter

3 types

Matrix

Center

Spot

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Don’t be a fool, meter

fooling your meter

exposure compensation

Tuesday, 29 January, 13

Review Tech

Tuesday, 29 January, 13

Review Tech

Tuesday, 29 January, 13

Review Tech

Tuesday, 29 January, 13

Review Tech

Tuesday, 29 January, 13

Review Tech

Tuesday, 29 January, 13

Review Tech

Tuesday, 29 January, 13

Review Tech

Tuesday, 29 January, 13

Journalism in Photojournalism

Captions and Cutlines

Captions are there to help answer all of the 5W’s

Although pictures are worth a 1000 words, sometimes they are not all helpful if the scene is confusing or ambiguous

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Journalism in Photojournalism

Captions must stand alone from the story in paper/web

People look at pictures first THEN continue to read on

Therefore you must include as much information as you can that will...

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Journalism in Photojournalism

A. Establish the relevance of the photo and answer the 5W’s

B. Draw the viewer into the picture

C. Clearly identify the subject of the picture

D. Provide context for the photo

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Journalism in Photojournalism

E. Write in the present tense even though the image was made in the past (yesterday X welcomes Y)

F. Avoid being too didactic in your captions, let the image teach/emote

G. Brief is best - be succinct

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Journalism in Photojournalism

Evaluate: Is it complete?

• Does it identify?• Does it tell when and where?• Is it easy to read? (Sentences should be short, direct and in proper sequence?• Does it have names right? (spelling and order?)• Is it specific? (Does it give information on specific points of interest in the picture of does it

merely echo the obvious?)• Does it have adjectives? (The reader should be able to determine “excitement” or “dismay”

from the picture. Remove adjectives.)

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Journalism in Photojournalism

Always have your camera AND a NOTEBOOK when you take pictures !!!

Names must be spelled correctly and usually groups are capped L-R

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Journalism in Photojournalism

Photo Credit and Overlines/Headers are company specific FEA/ENT etc

AP Guidelines

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Wild Art

Wild Art is NOT a news story or photo essay

Wild Art is a stand alone feature photo that is usually community based and exposes a “slice of life” feel to a coverage area.

Community centres, parks, boardwalks - public places (very often WX related)

Almost always has a person identified with caption

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Wild Art

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Assignments

WILD ART ASSIGNMENT Flickr account - post pic titled WILD ART #1 post 5-10 other variations on the shot WITH CAPTIONS!!!!!!Make a blog post and post your links

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Simple Essay Elements

Simple Essay Elements

OPENER… Your bang shot, like wild art, very feature like… WIDES location shots to establish your location/subjects, PORTRAITS to introduce your characters, DETAIL SHOTS to establish intimacyMOMENTS EMOTION makes a picture, we are empathetic creatures, the more you feel the better you'll shoot, hence it is not a pursuit for conservative mindsCLOSING SHOT

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