Journalism 2300: News Photography

1. Journalism 2300:News Photography Week Two February 1, 2010

2. Announcements • Today is the end of the 2nd week of the semester. The following take effect today: 1. Last day to add courses. 2. Last day to use permission numbers. 3. Last day to withdraw from a course with a W appearing on the transcript. 4. Last day to change a grading option. 5. Last day to apply for a degree.

3. To be a better photographer…

4. …you need to take a lot of photos!

5. Chapter 1: Assignment • Where to find spot news? • Scanner • Local news radio • Local television news • Cell phones • Web sites • Contacts: officials, firefighters, police officers, friends, acquaintances • News tips

6. Where to find more information • Beat reporters • Public Relations offices

7. Best time to shoot • Not always when reporter conducting interview • What did you learn with your photos of the DTA bus stop?

8. Visual variety • Overall shot • Sets scene • Medium shot • Tells the story in one photograph • Close-up: • Adds drama

9. High/low angles • New perspective • Going wide • Above, below

10. Persistence • Pros stay until they have the best shot • Plot out best time of day for photo • Might take 100 to 1,000 shots to get the best photograph

11. Catching candids • Preset your camera • Aperture priority/shutter priority • Watch your subject • Anticipation and timing

12. Approaches to candid photography • Out in the open • Click and run • Big game hunter • Introduce yourself • Marketing spot news story: • San Francisco earthquake

13. The week in pictures • MSNBC: • http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3842331/

14. Chapter 2: News • Contacts: • Police • Train derailment • Sunshine • Hostage situation: page 29 • Crime scene in progress • Staying alive!

15. Why shoot fires? • Church fire • Forest fire • Billings Gazette Pulitzer • Sawmill fire • Drove film to the newspaper

16. Accidents/disasters • Grim but necessary • Williston stalker • Airplane crash • Accidents • Don’t get in the way! • Weather affects everyone

17. Chapter 3: General news • Covering elections • Get to know candidates • Meetings generate news • Avoid lines of speakers! • Shoot from side • Look for props! • Photograph the issues • Steer clear of the pack!

18. Let’s go find news photos online • Work in groups of 4 • Newseum: Today’s Front Pages • http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/

19. Photojournalist defined • What is a photojournalist? • http://markhancock.blogspot.com/1996/01/what-is-photojournalist.html • What to remember? Photojournalists capture verbs!

20. Understanding exposure • ISO: Film speed • Higher the number, faster shutter speed • Sacrifice quality for reproduction • Aperture: Lens opening • Amount of light that the camera allows in • Shutter • How fast the lens captures action • Page 156 in textbook • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdotfhMGfTk&feature=related • http://photodoto.com/understanding-exposure-shutter-speed-aperture-and-iso/

21. Understanding Depth of Field • Depth of Field: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzedefUXARE Using a histogram • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3yiz1sBKLc

25. Let’s look at your photos • Overall excellent start! • Composition: Photos need to tell the story • Get in the habit of taking photos from all angles: • Overall, medium, close-up • Pick best shot for future assignments • Lighting important: • Time of day • Backlighting, shadows • Correct exposure

26. Need a focal point • Crop your photos: Eliminate dead space • Soft: Out of focus • Usually want your focal point sharp: in focus • Night photography: tough to hold camera steady without a tripod • Depth of field: • Infinity in overall shots • Closeups: limited depth of field

27. What’s a caption?See pages 147-153 • Who: • Need names or detailed description • Need last names • What: • What’s happening in photo • When: • Time element important • Day of week, time of day • Where: • Location • Why: • Importance of shot • How: • Explanations as needed

28. The number of UMD students traveling on the DTA has increased dramatically. Crowds of students pile off of these buses and hurry into their warm classrooms.

29. Eager to catch a bus, these UMD students form a line along the sidewalks of Kirby Plaza. More and more students have come to rely on the DTA buses as their form of transportation.

30. UMD student Chelsey Cannata, equipped with earmuffs and a hefty winter coat, patiently waits for her bus in Duluth's frigid temperatures.

31. Students arriving on campus off of the one of the busier bus lines at UMD.

32. Students boarding the bus at school.

33. Whitney Blegen braves the cold waiting at the Kirby Bus Hub.

34. Students wait patiently inside Kirby Plaza for the bus to pick them up after their classes.

35. Luke McCoy waits for one of the many afternoon buses that  stop at Kirby Plaza, which provides transportation for students to and from school.

36. Students arrive at Kirby Plaza after taking the bus, which provides many students with a timely mode of transportation everyday.

37. Duluth Transit Authority bus drops off UMD students outside of Kirby Plaza, the DTA has seen an increase in UMD student ridership.

38. A group of UMD students wait inside Kirby Plaza for the bus to arrive and take them home.

39. UMD junior Lance Freeport, who says he rides the DTA everyday, gets on the DTA bus to go home after a day of classes.

40. What’s missing in these photos?

41. What’s missing in these photos?

42. What’s missing in these photos?

43. A long-distance photo taken around noon of the the Kirby Bus Plaza.

44. A night shot of the Kirby Plaza with a slight angle from bottom to top.

45. A centered view of the Kirby Plaza.

46. The Kirby Student Center provides much needed shelter for students as they wait for their bus.

47. A group of UMD students wait for Their bus in Kirby Plaza.

48. UMD Seniors Loni, Meleah and Abby wait for their bus. (what’s missing?)

49. What’s missing?

50. What’s missing?