Picture stories are
everywhere! There are pictures all over the internet, on TV, hanging on your
wall at home and even on the back of buses. There is just no escaping them.
Pictures have always seemed to be intertwined with human lives, dating all the
way back to cave paintings, then stain-glass windows, movies and Instagram. So
obviously, pictures mean something to people. In the lecture we were told the features
of a good picture include:
·
Framing
·
Focus
·
Angle and point
of view
·
Exposure (light)
·
Timing (shutter
speed)
·
And most
importantly in my opinion is capturing ‘the moment’
Regardless of the technical
aspects of photography what really makes a good picture is summed up in the
quote, “If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips your heart out,
that’s a good picture”.
Rips my heart out! (To
be honest, give me any sad photo with a dog in it and I get emotional. Or
movie... have you seen Eight Below?)
A picture can often
hold much more meaning and portray much stronger emotions than words. The same
very much goes for film and moving pictures. There is really no other medium
that can convey as much depth in emotion.
Photos and film are
wonderful tools for journalists to tell a story. With digital capture and upload
it is becoming easier to capture a moment and present it to the world. News and
live television even make it possible to witness the moment while it is
happening. In addition, while articles in the newspaper may have a couple of
images, online news can include a photo gallery for each story as well as
related videos which can serve as evidence
or assist in telling the more emotional side of the story.
Digital manipulation is
also a highly talked about aspect of visual journalism. Who hasn’t seen the
airbrushed and manipulated photos of celebrities on the covers of magazines?
Digital manipulation certainly
has ethical implications with regards to news as it is not right to falsify an
image and then present it to the public. I am sure this will link in with the
lecture on ethics in a couple of weeks.
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