Photojournalism Fundamentals
Association of Photographers(AOP) & National Union of Journalists (NUJ)
AOP (http://www.the-aop.org) and the NUJ (https://www.nuj.org.uk/home/)
Association of Photographers (AOP):
AOP is a non profit association made to help photographers promote and publish their work. The AOP also helps photographers by assisting in problems that they might have with their businesses in a commercial environment.
The AOP's target audience is mainly British and European Professional photographers but they also provide assistance to others.
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National Union of Journalists (NUJ):
NUJ is a trade association based in the UK and Ireland who are one of the largest independent Journalist unions. They help their members work across a wide range of media forms like newspapers, magazines, tv, website, books and much more. The NUJ have very strong beliefs and try to be diverse and promote equalities.​
Benefits of joining the AOP:
The main benefit of joining the AOP is the validation and the advertising opportunities for the members; this is regularly done through the website, magazines and events.
They have staff who can help members with their enquiries and can offer a variety of resources like online PDFs and discounts on certain products like Dell and Apple.
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Benefits of joining the NUJ:
The NUJ gives members the opportunity to promote and publish their articles and projects, as well as the chance to work across different media forms. Another benefit of joining the NUJ are the other members; joining the NUJ will allow you to build connections and networks with other journalists and members.
They provide training opportunities for the members and they also set up events where you can join.
Exercising with flash
Flashguns and ETTL (Evaluative Through the Lens)
Exercising with studio flash
Further lighting and flash (Studio flash photography)
F-stop: f/16
Exposure: 1/50
ISO: 200
F-stop: f/4
Exposure: 1/50
ISO: 200
F-stop: f/2
Exposure: 1/50
ISO: 200
F-stop: f/16
Exposure: 1/50
ISO: 200
F-stop: f/16
Exposure: 1/50
ISO: 200
F-stop: f/11
Exposure: 1/50
ISO: 200
Metadata
Creating metadata for images (using photoshop)
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Shutter speed & Aperture
Practicing with Shutter speed & Apeture
Fast Shutter speed
F-stop: f/2
Exposure: 1/4000
ISO: 400
Slow Shutter speed
F-stop: f/11
Exposure: 1/30
ISO:
High F-stop
F-stop: f/16
Exposure: 1/180
ISO: 400
Low F-stop
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F-stop: f/2
Exposure: 1/1000
ISO: 400
Ethical debates
Controversial photographs
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The terror of war a.k.a Napalm girl (NICK UT)
Photographing children, capturing someones pain, capturing someone naked, capturing soldiers and explosions or capturing the harsh reality of war?
I am a big fan of this photograph since it had multiple positive impacts on the world and it also shows the truth.
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Camelot's Mona Lisa a.k.a Blown Jackie (Ron Galella)
Breaching the privacy of Jackie Kennedy, affecting celebrities' personal lives, or simply photographing celebrities?
In my mind even though this photograph is capturing the truth I feel like it is a visible difference between a photojournalist and a paparazzi so I am not a fan of it.
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VJ-Day in times square (ALFRED EISENSTEAD)
Man kissing random people, a picture of crime (harassment), breach of privacy or simply capturing someone expressing their happiness?
I personally do not see anything wrong with this image since it shows the truth and has captured something natural.
abu ghraib 2004
Photographing torture of prisoners, Humiliation, breach of privacy or trying to show the truth of the Abu Ghraib scandal?
Even though the images in this series are not pleasing to look at I feel like they have shown a truth that otherwise would have stayed hidden so I am happy that they were taken.
Public intrest
Photographs in public interest according to IPSO's Editor code of practice
tragedy in Iraq (Chris Hondros)
Photo taken of civilians being mistakenly killed by soldiers, this photo is showing a miscarriage of justice and so is the public interest according to IPSO's Editors' Code of Practice.
Human torch (greg marinovich)
Photo taken of an African man being burnt alive, is showing crime and therefor is in the public interest according to IPSO's Editors' Code of Practice.
Photoshop practice
Adjustment layers
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Photoshop Actions
Creating an action
Raw images
Selection of Raw images, using raw conversion
Crop, Noise reduction, Colour correction, Image resizing, curves and levels, gaussian blur and High pass, Save as JPEG
F-stop: f/2.9
Exposure: 1/8
ISO: 1600
Crop, Image resizing, curves and levels, Save as JPEG
F-stop: f/2.0
Exposure: 1/4
ISO: 400
Crop, Image resizing, curves and levels, gaussian blur and High pass, Save as JPEG
F-stop: f/16
Exposure: 1/60
ISO: 400
Crop, Colour correction, Image resizing, curves and levels, gaussian blur and High pass, Save as JPEG
F-stop: f/11
Exposure: 1/250
ISO: 400
Crop, Image resizing, curves and levels, Save as JPEG
F-stop: f/2.8
Exposure: 1/250
ISO: 400
Custom white balance
Creating a custom white balance using a white piece of paper
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