Intro to Photojournalism

“A picture is worth a thousand words”

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Pocket Seminar for Beginners
Dr. Cheryl Vilog
• "A little girl, weakened from hunger, collapsed
recently along the trail to a feeding center in
Ayod. Nearby, a vulture waited. (Kevin
Carter)".

• Kevin Carter's Pulitzer Prize winning

photograph of a starving Sudanese girl child
and a vulture in the background
• The vulture and the little girl is a photograph
by Kevin Carter which first appeared in The New York
Times on 26 March 1993.
• It is a photograph of a frail famine-stricken girl
collapsed in the foreground with a vulture eyeing her
from nearby.
• She was reported to be attempting to reach a United
Nations feeding center in Ayod, South
Sudan sometime in March 1993. The picture won
the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography award in
1994 and was chosen as Picture of the Year by The
American Magazine.
 1. What is Photojournalism?

• process of story telling using the

medium of photography as your main story
telling device
• While a journalist will use their pen and paper
to tell stories, a photojournalist will use their
camera to capture the visual
representation of a story.
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 2. Who is a photojournalist?
• someone who
photographs,
edits, and
displays
images in order
to tell a visual story
 3. How to get top-notch photos?

1. Ambition
2. An Eye for Detail
3. Creativity
4. Hand-Eye
Coordination
5. People Skills
6. Technical Skills
 4. What is the difference between
photography and photojourn?
Photography is defined as the art or process of
taking a picture with a camera

Photojournalism is defined as using photographs

to report news stories.

Photojournalism is photography, but

photography is not necessarily
photojournalism.
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THE SKILL
5. What are camera angles?
THE CAMERA
 6. What is a camera?
• camera obscura, which means "dark
chamber”
• The functioning of the camera is very similar
to the functioning of the human eye.
• The first permanent photograph of a camera
image was made in 1826 by Joseph Nicephore
Niepce
 7. What are camera accessories?
Accessories for cameras are mainly for care, protection, special effects and functions.
1. Lens hood: used on the end of a lens to block the sun or other light source to prevent glare
and lens flare
2. Lens cap: covers and protects the lens during storage.
3. Lens adapter: sometimes called a step-ring, adapts the lens to other size filters.
4. Lens filters: allow artificial colors or change light density.
5. Lens extension tubes allow close focus in macro photography.
6. Flash equipment including light diffuser, mount and stand, reflector, soft box, trigger and
cord.
7. Large Format Cameras use special equipment which includes magnifier loupe, view finder,
angle finder, focusing rail /truck.
8. Battery and sometimes a charger.
9. Some professional SLR could be provided with interchangeable finders for eye-level or waist-
level focusing, focusing screens, eye-cup, data backs, motor-drives for film transportation or
external battery packs.
10. Tripod, microscope adapter, cable release, electric wire release.
A photographer using a tripod for greater stability during long exposure.
 8. What are camera controls?

1.Focus
2.Aperture
3.White balance
9. What is the difference of point and
shoot and DSLR?
• A point-and-shoot camera, also known as
compact camera, is a still camera designed
primarily for simple operation
• A digital single-lens reflex camera (also called
a digital SLR or DSLR) is a digital camera that
combines the optics and the mechanisms of
a single-lens reflex camera with a digital
imaging sensor, as opposed to photographic
film
 10. How to write a caption?
1. Check the facts – accuracy
2. Captions should add new information.
3. Always identify the main people in the
photograph.
4. A photograph captures a moment in time.
5. Conversational language works best.
6. The tone of the caption should match the
tone of the image.
A caption should help explain the what, when,
and where. But the photo should provoke an
emotional reaction
 Parts of a caption/cutline

LEAD IN
Present or past tense
Credit
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• Note the capitalization of the caption
• Follow the instructions religiously

Enjoy!