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Photography Lecture
- 1. Photography Sept. 23, 2010 Jennifer Cox
- 2. Photojournalism Photojournalism is about capturing the human experience and making your own art; not just capturing the creations of others Look at the good, the bad and the ugly Examples of great photographer’s blogs are posted on the blog
- 3. Tips Try to avoid posed pictures Try to capture emotion Get faces; not backs Identify the star of the picture Get up close! Let your picture tell a story
- 4. Tips Use different angles Avoid inanimate objects; focus on people Don’t crowd the picture Action, good; blurry, bad! Use the “Rule of Thirds” Try different things
- 5. Try to avoid posed pictures
- 6. Try to capture emotion
- 7. Get faces; not backs
- 8. Who is the star of the picture?
- 10. Let your pictures tell a story
- 11. Let your pictures tell a story
- 13. Inanimate objects Inanimate objects tend to be boring; always try to include people No pictures of buildings, cars, etc. Don’t just photograph a sculpture; photograph someone looking at the sculpture with an expressive look on his/her face
- 15. Don’t crowd the picture
- 16. Action is exciting; blurry is not
- 17. Use the Rule of Thirds
- 18. Use the Rule of Thirds
- 22. Questions Don’t forget to check out the photography blogs that I posted If you have any questions prior to Tuesday, send me an e-mail
Hinweis der Redaktion
- The purpose of this lecture is to introduce you to the nuts and bolts of photography. You will put this information to use during our photo field trip on Tuesday.
- -Photojournalism is about capturing the human experience and making your own art; it’s not just about capturing the creations of other, including buildings, statues, and other man-made works of artPhotography is about looking at the good, the bad and the ugly, because there is beauty in all of itI posted some examples of great newspaper photographer’s blogs on our blogs.In lieu of readings, please check them out before Tuesday.
- Here are some tips for taking good, journalistic pictures.Try to avoid posed pictures – it is impossible to capture raw, real emotion through posed picturesTry to capture emotion – look for expressions that capture feelingGet faces; not backs – there is nothing interesting about someone’s back in a pictureIdentify the star of the picture – someone in the picture is usually doing something interesting; try to highlight itGet up close! – pictures from too far away lose meaning and clarityLet your picture tell a story – we should be able to deduce what is happening from a picture or series of pictures
- Use different angles – take the same picture from different angles and using different settings on your camera. Experiment because you never know what will work.Avoid inanimate objects; focus on people – people are far more expressive and interesting than buildings and fields Don’t crowd the picture – too many people or things in a picture take away from its value and focus. Be selective.Action, good; blurry, bad! – Action shots are great, but only if you can capture them with the camera you have. Blurry pictures are not useful.Use the “Rule of Thirds” – divide your picture frame into three parts and capture your subjects in the first or the last third. More on this later.Try different things – again, you never know what’s going to work. Try it all. Digital cameras eliminate the need to conserve film, so go nuts!Now, let’s go into greater detail on these tips.
- Avoid posed pictures: This pose is great... For a photo album. It is not journalistic, because it doesn’t tell a story nor would it compliment an article.
- Capture emotion: This woman’s face tells a story. Although it may not be clear what the story is, it makes you feel something important is brewing below and makes you want to learn more. Also, notice how her face is framed so that it is the dominant focus, even though not all of it is captured in the shot.
- Get faces, not backs – it would be much better to see these kids reacting to the hippo than to see their backs.
- Can you identify the star in this picture? Great emotion here, and, even though others are in the picture, your focus immediately goes to the star of the shot.
- Get up close. The first shot has too much business in the background. The close-up shot zooms in on the subject and is much more interesting.
- Let your pictures tell a story – clearly this picture tells the story of an emotional moment between two people. We can deduce that this is a meaningful father-daughter wedding dance without any text information to help us.
- Again, pictures that tell stories are very powerful. Remember the adage, a picture is worth a thousand words.
- Use different angles and levels – a straight shot of this person and the wine bottles would not have been as interesting or artistic as this shot angled upward from below.
- Inanimate objects tend to be boring; always try to include people in your pictures because people emote.For your Soundslides pictures, try not to use pictures of buildings, cars, or other inanimate objects by themselves.Instead of photographing a sculpture; photograph someone looking at the sculpture with an expressive look on his/her face
- Isn’t the picture on the right much more interesting that the one on the left?
- Don’t crowd the picture – there is too much going on here for the viewer to focus on any storytelling element. Remember, the goal of journalistic photography is to tell a story; it’s not landscape photography or art in that sense.
- Action is exciting, blurry is not. As you can see, there is a little bit of blur in the picture on the right, but not so much that it distorts the picture.
- The rule of thirds – as you can see, the subject is concentrated mainly in the left third of the picture, which gives an illusion of action. It looks like he’s headed to the right.
- Here is another example where the subject is concentrated to one side. It’s not appropriate in ever picture, but for many shots, it is a more interesting approach than a straight-on shot.
- Try different things. Again, you never know what is going to work.
- Here are some good examples of subject composure. [5 seconds]
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