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التصوير الفوتوغرافي الحديث
التصوير الصحفي والتصوير الفوتوغرافي
التصوير الصحفي
ما هو التصوير الصحفي؟
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY and PHOTOJOURNALISM
Part 1 - Press Photography
WHAT IS PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY ?
There is really no accurate definition of press photography . Essentially it comes down to this point - press photography is whatever photography a press photographer may be called upon to do . This , of course , is no definition at all , but it does give us a clue of the direction we should take in arriving at our definition . The press photographer is obviously a photographer who works for the press the newspaper , in more down to earth terms - and we all have a fairly good idea of what kind of photographs a newspaper uses . If we broaden our concept to take in the Sunday paper with its various supplements and features , we arrive at a fairly comprehensive conception of the kind of picture in which a press photographer would be interested .
First and foremost is the news picture . This tells a story of today - what is going on right now in any or all fields of human endeavor . A hotly contested baseball game , the pronouncements of a major figure in our government , a major fire , a serious accident on the tollway , a particularly brutal crime - these are all events we expect to read about in our daily paper and they are all good subjects for the press photographer .
The Auto Accident . The kneeling figure and the crumpled door give this picture added impact and validity .
Courtesy of Chicago Today , Photo by Bob Rea .
Beauty in the News . A young lady tells the press photographer what she thinks of him .
Courtesy of Chicago Today , Photo by Joe Mastruzzo .
The press photographer of today is no longer restricted to the straightfor ward news picture The feature picture , the feature story , and the occa sional outstanding pictorial photograph can now be found in the news papers , particularly in the Saturday or Sunday supple ments .
Courtesy of Chicago Today , Photo by Steve Lasker .
The butter on the bread , so to speak , is the feature story with its need for appropriate feature pictures or picture sequences . These differ in important respects from the straight news picture and they will be discussed separately .
As we have stated a number of times throughout this course of study , no photographer can do a good job unless he first understands what he is shooting for . It isn't enough to get the subject before the camera , light it with technical expertness , expose it properly and process the result to the final conclusion . The resulting print might conceivably be a good picture , but the odds are very much against it . It is much more likely to be a dull , uninteresting photograph which would merit hardly a second glance . Certainly the photographer who does photography in this manner , no matter what field he enters , will never be a successful one .
This holds true in the field of news photography just as much as in any other field . The would - be news photographer must first , therefore , give a considerable amount of thought to what makes a good news picture . Only then can he develop the correct approach and direct his technical know - how , as well as his basic intelligence , to the making of such a picture ..
A good news picture must tell its story instantly and with the greatest economy . The story it tells must be a universal one and reflect , in some important way , the reality of our times . A good news picture must , above all , be truthful and the truth must be self - evident .
All this is asking quite a lot from a single picture , and very few routine news shots come up to this high standard . Nevertheless , many truly outstanding pictures are taken every day , and there is absolutely no reason why you cannot take your share if your talents lie in that direction .
The news picture is becoming an increasingly more important element in the making of a news story . With this increased use , the quality of the pictures . themselves has grown and the status , well as the earnings , of a news photographer has grown with it . In the early days of news photography , the qualifications of a news photographer were very simple - he had to be able to I come back with a picture . It didn't make too much difference what kind of picture , just so long as it was printable . The mug shot was the inevitable result . With the rising competition provided by other picture using media , such as the news magazines , the picture magazines and television , the newspapers began to demand pictures which were more than mug shots but which represented a truly meaningful report . The news photographer became a partner , and not necessarily a junior partner , with the reporter in the business of gathering news and presenting it . Today , no paper can get along without a staff of press photographers and a well - equipped photographic operation in all respects . Some of these staff photographers enjoy a national reputation and have incomes to match .
To the student , press photography affords an excellent opportunity to earn money on a free - lance basis . Although the major newspapers have their own staffs , this is not necessarily the case for all neighborhood papers or small town papers . These may have arrangements with local photographers to go out on special assignments as the need arises , but field is wide open for an enterprising student wit imagination and initiative to go out after pictures on his own . If he shows good aptitude , he can without too much difficulty reach an agreement with his local paper to provide his services on a mutually satisfactory basis .
Even in the larger cities where newspapers have their own staff of photographers , there is plenty of opportunity for the imaginative amateur or student photographer . No newspaper will turn down an outstanding news picture no matter how many photographers it has in its employ . We have all heard stories of how a quick - witted amateur was able to get an extraordinarily newsworthy picture because he happened to be on the right spot at the right time , camera all loaded and ready to shoot . If the photographer knows the ropes and how to go about selling it , a great picture will bring in several hundred or even several thousand dollars .
Although one generally thinks of news pictures as single pictures , complete in themselves , this is not necessarily so . More and more , the news photographer is becoming a reporter . The fact that he uses pictures instead of words does not alter the situation . A good newspaper picture tells a story that has an element of truth and validity which cannot be surpassed by any other medium . As photographers , we all know that photographs can be faked . Yet the fact remains that the general . public accepts a photograph at face value and gives it a belief which is largely unquestioned . This is all the more reason for the press photographer to take the position that he is reporting facts as he and his camera see them and that the camera must not be used to mislead the observer or slant the news .
We generally think of a news photograph as complete in itself . The story it tells may be explained or amplified with a caption , but the picture is substantially complete and tells the whole story . This is not necessarily the correct concept . To an increasing degree , the idea of using several pictures instead of one to tell various phases or aspects of a single story is taking hold . This is the approach used in the feature story , which is much more likely to use several pictures than one . Because each picture tells a story from a slightly different point of view , or else tells its own phase of the overall story , it can be much more simple and direct . The impact of the series can be considerably greater because each picture element builds up the central theme so that the total impact is greater by far than that of any single picture in the series . This idea of a picture series can be extended into the field of more conventional news coverage with considerable effect . We will discuss this point in greater detail later on in this Assignment .
التصوير الصحفي والتصوير الفوتوغرافي
التصوير الصحفي
ما هو التصوير الصحفي؟
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY and PHOTOJOURNALISM
Part 1 - Press Photography
WHAT IS PRESS PHOTOGRAPHY ?
There is really no accurate definition of press photography . Essentially it comes down to this point - press photography is whatever photography a press photographer may be called upon to do . This , of course , is no definition at all , but it does give us a clue of the direction we should take in arriving at our definition . The press photographer is obviously a photographer who works for the press the newspaper , in more down to earth terms - and we all have a fairly good idea of what kind of photographs a newspaper uses . If we broaden our concept to take in the Sunday paper with its various supplements and features , we arrive at a fairly comprehensive conception of the kind of picture in which a press photographer would be interested .
First and foremost is the news picture . This tells a story of today - what is going on right now in any or all fields of human endeavor . A hotly contested baseball game , the pronouncements of a major figure in our government , a major fire , a serious accident on the tollway , a particularly brutal crime - these are all events we expect to read about in our daily paper and they are all good subjects for the press photographer .
The Auto Accident . The kneeling figure and the crumpled door give this picture added impact and validity .
Courtesy of Chicago Today , Photo by Bob Rea .
Beauty in the News . A young lady tells the press photographer what she thinks of him .
Courtesy of Chicago Today , Photo by Joe Mastruzzo .
The press photographer of today is no longer restricted to the straightfor ward news picture The feature picture , the feature story , and the occa sional outstanding pictorial photograph can now be found in the news papers , particularly in the Saturday or Sunday supple ments .
Courtesy of Chicago Today , Photo by Steve Lasker .
The butter on the bread , so to speak , is the feature story with its need for appropriate feature pictures or picture sequences . These differ in important respects from the straight news picture and they will be discussed separately .
As we have stated a number of times throughout this course of study , no photographer can do a good job unless he first understands what he is shooting for . It isn't enough to get the subject before the camera , light it with technical expertness , expose it properly and process the result to the final conclusion . The resulting print might conceivably be a good picture , but the odds are very much against it . It is much more likely to be a dull , uninteresting photograph which would merit hardly a second glance . Certainly the photographer who does photography in this manner , no matter what field he enters , will never be a successful one .
This holds true in the field of news photography just as much as in any other field . The would - be news photographer must first , therefore , give a considerable amount of thought to what makes a good news picture . Only then can he develop the correct approach and direct his technical know - how , as well as his basic intelligence , to the making of such a picture ..
A good news picture must tell its story instantly and with the greatest economy . The story it tells must be a universal one and reflect , in some important way , the reality of our times . A good news picture must , above all , be truthful and the truth must be self - evident .
All this is asking quite a lot from a single picture , and very few routine news shots come up to this high standard . Nevertheless , many truly outstanding pictures are taken every day , and there is absolutely no reason why you cannot take your share if your talents lie in that direction .
The news picture is becoming an increasingly more important element in the making of a news story . With this increased use , the quality of the pictures . themselves has grown and the status , well as the earnings , of a news photographer has grown with it . In the early days of news photography , the qualifications of a news photographer were very simple - he had to be able to I come back with a picture . It didn't make too much difference what kind of picture , just so long as it was printable . The mug shot was the inevitable result . With the rising competition provided by other picture using media , such as the news magazines , the picture magazines and television , the newspapers began to demand pictures which were more than mug shots but which represented a truly meaningful report . The news photographer became a partner , and not necessarily a junior partner , with the reporter in the business of gathering news and presenting it . Today , no paper can get along without a staff of press photographers and a well - equipped photographic operation in all respects . Some of these staff photographers enjoy a national reputation and have incomes to match .
To the student , press photography affords an excellent opportunity to earn money on a free - lance basis . Although the major newspapers have their own staffs , this is not necessarily the case for all neighborhood papers or small town papers . These may have arrangements with local photographers to go out on special assignments as the need arises , but field is wide open for an enterprising student wit imagination and initiative to go out after pictures on his own . If he shows good aptitude , he can without too much difficulty reach an agreement with his local paper to provide his services on a mutually satisfactory basis .
Even in the larger cities where newspapers have their own staff of photographers , there is plenty of opportunity for the imaginative amateur or student photographer . No newspaper will turn down an outstanding news picture no matter how many photographers it has in its employ . We have all heard stories of how a quick - witted amateur was able to get an extraordinarily newsworthy picture because he happened to be on the right spot at the right time , camera all loaded and ready to shoot . If the photographer knows the ropes and how to go about selling it , a great picture will bring in several hundred or even several thousand dollars .
Although one generally thinks of news pictures as single pictures , complete in themselves , this is not necessarily so . More and more , the news photographer is becoming a reporter . The fact that he uses pictures instead of words does not alter the situation . A good newspaper picture tells a story that has an element of truth and validity which cannot be surpassed by any other medium . As photographers , we all know that photographs can be faked . Yet the fact remains that the general . public accepts a photograph at face value and gives it a belief which is largely unquestioned . This is all the more reason for the press photographer to take the position that he is reporting facts as he and his camera see them and that the camera must not be used to mislead the observer or slant the news .
We generally think of a news photograph as complete in itself . The story it tells may be explained or amplified with a caption , but the picture is substantially complete and tells the whole story . This is not necessarily the correct concept . To an increasing degree , the idea of using several pictures instead of one to tell various phases or aspects of a single story is taking hold . This is the approach used in the feature story , which is much more likely to use several pictures than one . Because each picture tells a story from a slightly different point of view , or else tells its own phase of the overall story , it can be much more simple and direct . The impact of the series can be considerably greater because each picture element builds up the central theme so that the total impact is greater by far than that of any single picture in the series . This idea of a picture series can be extended into the field of more conventional news coverage with considerable effect . We will discuss this point in greater detail later on in this Assignment .
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