5th lecture - photojourn.ppt
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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
RELATED ELEMENTS AND DEVICES
HORIZON - characterized by horizontal line
LOWER HORIZON
UPPERHORIZON
LEFT THIRD
MIDDLE THIRD
RIGHT THIRD
RELATED ELEMENTS AND DEVICES
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
RELATED ELEMENTS AND DEVICES
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
RELATED ELEMENTS AND DEVICES
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.
RELATED ELEMENTS AND DEVICES
ANGULARITY - the use of diagonal line to illustrate a dynamic perspective
ANT’S EYEVIEW:taken from below for imposing effectof the subject
RELATED ELEMENTS AND DEVICES
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.
THANK YOU