PHOTOJOURNALISM

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

Two Words 1. Photo - picture 2. Journalism - story Photojournalism is literally defined as a picture story or a story picture.

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.

RELATED ELEMENTS AND DEVICES

HORIZON - characterized by horizontal line
UPPER HORIZON

MIDDLE HORIZON

LOWER HORIZON

LOWER HORIZON

UPPER HORIZON

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RULE OF THIRD - characterized by three columns

LEFT THIRD

MIDDLE THIRD

RIGHT THIRD

The man and the tuna are not placed in the center to emphasize the 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

BACKGROUND

S U B J E C T FOREGROUND

Background blur

Foreground blur

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BREAKING THE PATTERN - put something different to break uniformity

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

The surfer breaks the pattern of waves

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

The tree at the right side of the nipa hut serves as a frame

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

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

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EYEVIEW - the perspective

ANTS EYEVIEW: taken from below for imposing effect of the subject

BIRDS EYEVIEW: taken from above to show a panorama of the subject

TYPES OF SHOTS
ELS: Extreme Long Shot Person in surroundings

LS: Long Shot Whole body

TYPES OF SHOTS
MS: Medium Shot Waist up

MCU: Medium close-up Mid chest up

TYPES OF SHOTS
CU: Close up Head & shoulders

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. Dont 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.

Cut Cutline and Credit line

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

The best photograph cant be produced by the hi-tech camera if not of the photojournalists sharp eyes and mind.

THANK YOU