httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnwf2RShNV0
From Reuter’s You Witness News site :
As you’re thinking about taking news photographs, think about what constitutes a good picture. Most importantly, it will be of interest to a wide audience. It may depict an event in the news: a train crash, a clash in the streets, deliriously happy fans the moment the big game is won. Or it may not be of a strictly ‘news’ event. It could be an out-of-the-ordinary moment in time in an otherwise ordinary day. Something that has novelty and impact. For example, a model falling over her huge heels on the catwalk, or a fox running down a city street, or a fire station catching fire. Uniqueness is compelling. A picture that no one else took has much more news value than one taken alongside a rank of other photographers. A good news picture will tell a story without words. It will have context by showing the surrounding scene, or show the emotion on the faces of the people in the picture. Timeliness is critical. Whatever the content, a news picture can lose its value in a short space of time. News events move quickly, and the shot of a mini tornado you took last week may have been destined for the front page when you took it, but of no interest to a newspaper or a website a week later. There are exceptions if the event is of huge significance and rarity. For example, a photo of a tsunami wave could still be of great interest days after it struck. Restraint is important. Please remember, absolutely no photo is worth harassing others, putting yourself or others in danger, or getting in trouble with the law. We’re looking forward to seeing your pictures.
As you’re thinking about taking news photographs, think about what constitutes a good picture.
Most importantly, it will be of interest to a wide audience. It may depict an event in the news: a train crash, a clash in the streets, deliriously happy fans the moment the big game is won.
Or it may not be of a strictly ‘news’ event. It could be an out-of-the-ordinary moment in time in an otherwise ordinary day. Something that has novelty and impact. For example, a model falling over her huge heels on the catwalk, or a fox running down a city street, or a fire station catching fire.
Uniqueness is compelling. A picture that no one else took has much more news value than one taken alongside a rank of other photographers. A good news picture will tell a story without words. It will have context by showing the surrounding scene, or show the emotion on the faces of the people in the picture.
Timeliness is critical. Whatever the content, a news picture can lose its value in a short space of time. News events move quickly, and the shot of a mini tornado you took last week may have been destined for the front page when you took it, but of no interest to a newspaper or a website a week later. There are exceptions if the event is of huge significance and rarity. For example, a photo of a tsunami wave could still be of great interest days after it struck.
Restraint is important. Please remember, absolutely no photo is worth harassing others, putting yourself or others in danger, or getting in trouble with the law.
We’re looking forward to seeing your pictures.
There are people who drop everything in their native country, and roam the region being a sojourn (the label for solo journalists – folks with camera, vidcam, a notebook and internet access). Hmm, maybe I should just drop everything too and go off to chase my old dream.
Over at NY Times, British photographer Robbie Cooper lifted stills off video of kids playing video games, their faces filled with utter concentration.
Cooper had the kids look at a reflection of the game in a plane of glass, and put his camera behind the glass so the kids wouldn’t be self-conscious about the giant fancy camera pointed right in their faces. This technique is evidently Cooper’s homage to Errol Morris’ “Interrotron” that the filmmaker used for many of his documentaries. The interplay between the real and unreal worlds is Cooper’s ostensible subject, but mostly the photos are just great to look at.
The video was shot using the RED camera system, and it really showcases the potential of the system when it gives you such high quality shots with beautiful colours.
LIFE was one of the world’s few magazines with a heavy emphasis on photojournalism.
However, it ceased publications last year, citing changing demographics, lack of interest, and the Internet as the reasons… and it is now reborn thanks to Google.
LIFE goes on.
It is really first-rate photographic work up there, and a personal favorite would be on the Vietnam War (under Events).
It seems like Google is really delivering the goods today, wonder what else they are going to release.
EDIT : If you liked the photos in the Vietnam War series, I recommend you a photojourn book, which is astounding in depth and quality.
Also, check out Magnum Photos.
Okay, I’m treating Vox like a memory dump now, as a backup of some sorts in case all my digital data gets wiped out.
Putting up favorite photos that I have shot over the years. Still have many on traditional film that carried over when I was shooting in the late 90s with an Nikon F3HP (note to self: re-stock silica, and digitize soon!)
So there ya go! There’s alot more photos which I consider to be aesthetically pleasing, or nice. However, over the years, I found myself wanting to take photos that tell a story. With the digital explosion, the availability of good lenses (Nikon trinity set and Canon L lenses), the accessibilty to photographic techniques and knowledge on the internet, pretty much anybody can take good looking-pics. Photography used to be bluddy expensive (I cringed everytime I shot over 10 rolls on the F3 for a single event). Now? it’s sooo cheep.
What matters, is that the pictures have a story to tell. And those are the pictures I truly enjoy.
