Amy Leach

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Photojournalism

• What is the photographic style of the newspaper? Why do you think this is?

Editorial. good quality.

• How many images in the paper?

106 Images

• How many credited?

All Images were credited

• Comment on the layout of the paper. What proportion text, what proportion images

Most space is taken up by images which allows for smaller text which lets people see and make their own opinions instead of having opinions and stories forced on them.

• Freelance or staff? Can you tell?

Staff. Professional photos with time and care put into them.

• Comment on quality of image, effectiveness; does it tell the story?

The photos tell the story with text to back it up and give further context to the story. High quality with attention to detail.

• Look for similar stories/events

The Queen, The castle, Headshots, Ukraine war.

• Where is the article i.e. front page

On the front page and throught the paper.

• Who is the photographer?

Alkis Konstantinidis.

• Is the photographer credited?

Yes

• Pick two images, one from tabloid and one from broadsheet (this should be the same story) and discuss

The Queens Journey

Guardian - Image has been cropped however looks better quality with better colours.

Metro - Low res and full length taking up full page with large text.

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Nike Task

https://express.adobe.com/page/NMHKaaxP9chjn/

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Contextual photojournalism

First task – Identify where news comes from. List five sources where you would see good photojournalism. 

news can come from many differetn places including television, internet, book and newspaper. some places you may see photojournalism are the guardian, the telegraph etc and places on tv such as the BBC and STV. on the internet you may see photojournalism on places like social media or on the digital versions of newspapers and magazines such as TIMES magazine, BBC, the guardian etc.

Second task - Choose two established photojournalists from Magnum or a large photo agency and look at four photographs for each photographer. Look at the photographers background and career. Talk about their approach and style of photography. Comment on the effectiveness of storytelling in their work. Take note of some of the issues they may encounter as a photojournalist. What has made them successful in their field of work? (300 words approx.) 

https://express.adobe.com/page/NhFkWwgoNRuyP/

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Adobe Spark Link

https://express.adobe.com/page/030vmCHEmVpjT/

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Street Style

Plan

For this shoot I want to switch locations during these shoots as I dont want it to look like I have just lined people up to take photos of them. I will pick places that are not too busy so that I can avoid having a crowded background. I will use my Nikon D3400 camera with my 18-55mm lens so that I can adjust focal length. I want my photos to be joined together as a set on a canvas by either colour or expression.

When taking the images I will try to make conversation with the person I am shooting to help them be more comfortable. i will compliment their outfit before i ask them if i can take photos and ask them about their outfit inspirations and key points however i will only do this if they seem comfortable with it. I will try to get a variey of images including full length and detail shots so that i can have a good selection on images.

Contact Sheet

Final Images

Canvas

My Thoughts

I thought it was an intersting brief as I am interested in street style however I had never thought about trying to take these images. I am a very quiet person so getting the courage to go up and ask people to take their picture was a challenge for me so I did not take as many photos as I would have liked.

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Wait for it

Plan

I plan on trying to use framing to draw your eye to the subject in my image and know a few places I would like to try to take images like that. I plan on taking the images with a Nikon D3400 with a 18-55mm lens so that I can zoom in or out when I need to.

Contact Sheet

Potential photos

Final Photos

my thoughts

I enjoyed shooting this project as i found it interesting to just set up a shot then sit and wait for someone to come along.

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Photojournalism

photojournalism is a genre of photography where a story is told using photographs instead of doing something like writing about it as a journalist would do.

What can photojournalism do? Write down 6 thoughts

photojournalism can do things such as

freeze moments in time

show people things that have been happening in the world

stir up emotions in people

show the need for change  

connect people from around the world

What will you shoot as a photojournalist?

Write down 6 genres you may cover

documentary

street

portrait

still life

editorial

sports

advertisement

What skills are required?  

creativity

patience

networking

ability to work well under pressure

empathy

good moral compass

attention to detail

editing

curiosity

Equipment

camera

lenses

flash

tripod

battery

SD card

hard drive

Responsibilities

time management

research

stay respectful and know when to take a photo

do not manipulate the event

work under pressure

Identify where news comes from. List five sources where you would see good photojournalism. 

The Associated Press

BBC news

The New York Times

National Geographic

The Washington Post

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Photojournalism

Photojournalism is a genre of photogrsphy that uses images in order to tell a story this is usually used when referring to still images however this term can also apply to video used in broadcasts as well. This genre of photography differentiates itself from other similar genres (e.g street and documentary photography) by its need to remain as honest and as neutral as possible.

The introduction of smaller, faster cameras allowed led to the “golden age” of photojournalism as it allowed photographers to have complete flexibility with what they were taking photos of and due to the faster shutter speed photojournalists were able to capture subjects in motion which they were previously unable to do.

The decisive moment

The decisive moment is a concept used in photography. The decisive moment is the ability to anticipate and capture an important moment in a split second. This photography style requires patience as you will likely be sitting in one place for a long time. There are three important elements when it comes to the decisive moment these are time and anticipation, the composition of the image and the meaning of the image.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/p/photojournalism

https://web.archive.org/web/20130309021921/http://www.jprof.com/magazines/05goldagephotog.html

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Street Style

Street style photography is a genre of fashion photography that focuses on what clothes people are wearing on the street and how they are styling them. Photos are often taken of people attending different fashion weeks and runway shows and events. The location and lighting in the photos are important.

Jonathan Daniel Pryce

Jonathan Daniel pryce is a london based photographer known as Garconjon online. He sells prints and books of his work on his website and his work has also been featured in many magazines such as ID, Vogue, GQ etc.

i like that the colour of the subjects clothes is similar to the surroundings but they still manage to stand out from the background.

i like the lighting and colour in this photo

I like the bright colour of the subject hair which helps him stand out from the background and I also like the engagement with the camera.

Shoichi Aoki

Shoichi Aoki is a Japanese photographer who takes street style images in order to document the fashionable people in Japan. He started in the mid 1990s and managed to capture Harajuku’s transformation from a normal shopping district into a well known fashion hub. He created a few magazines one of which was FRUiTS magazine which was created in 1997 and helped bring a larger western audience to Japanese fashion after some of the photos featured in the magazine became popular. The magazine later became synonymous with Japanese fashion in the west. After 20 years of publication in 2017 Shoichi Aoki made the decision to cease pubication of the magazine controversially stating the he believed there were “no more cool kids to photograph”.

i like the expression in this image as the woman in the photo seems happy to be having her photo taken and seems very engaged with the camera. I feel the colour of her outfit also draws your eye to her.

again the expression of the people in the image is what i like about it.

i like the colours in this image

Sandra Semburg

Sandra Semburg is a fashion photographer from Berlin currently based in Greece. She has shot many campaigns for different brands including Chloe, Sonia Rykiel and Moda Operani. she also often shoots street fashion at different fashion events aroumd the world.

I like this image as i feel that the colour of the womans outfit makes her stand out against the plain background.

I like this image as I feel the colourws in the background and in the persons clothes are similar and they create a nice colour palette.

I like the light and shadows on the clothes in this detail shot.

Tommy Ton

Tommy Ton is a Canadian photographer known for his street style photo coverage of different fashion weeks. inspired by Carine Roitfeld, and Anna Dello Russo.

I like the colour in this image

I like the lighting in this image and I like that the entire image is mostly black and white but his blue nails give a little bit of colour to it.

I like the colour in the photo and that even though it is a detail image the personality of the person in the photo is still clear.

Jonathan Daniel Pryce

https://garconjon.com/

https://www.instagram.com/garconjon/?hl=en

https://www.lockeliving.com/en/features/bermondsey-street-style-with-garconjon

https://garconjon.tumblr.com/page/8

Shoichi Aoki

https://tokyofruits.com/

https://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/29001/1/fruits-future-pop-fashion

https://the-comm.online/blog/is-harajuku-still-dead-fruits-what-happened-next/

Shoichi Aoki (2001), FRUiTS, Phaidon Press

Shoichi Aoki (2005), FRESH FRUiTS, Phaidon Press

https://www.instagram.com/fruits_magazine_archives/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/fruitsmag/?hl=en

Sandra Semburg

https://www.sandrasemburg.com/

https://www.streetstylearchives.com/gallery-image/FW2020-Milan/G000040Oz0cTvcts/I0000zrrKioK2xn4

https://www.streetstylearchives.com/gallery-image/Couture-22-23-Paris/G0000diX2.lC.SA8/I0000NBJCvgZX8SA

https://www.streetstylearchives.com/gallery-image/Couture-22-23-Paris/G0000diX2.lC.SA8/I0000MkOA3ijkjSc

Tommy Ton

https://www.tommyton.com/

https://www.instagram.com/tommyton/?hl=en

https://www.tommyton.com/#!/media/alexcarl

https://www.tommyton.com/archive/index.html#!/media/jaredgucci1

https://www.tommyton.com/archive/index.html#!/media/paris-7289

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The Satorialist

The satoralist is a fashion blog founded by scott schuman in 2005 with the intention of combining fashion and every day life and to document street styles he found interesting occasionally adding his own commentary on it.

Scott Schuman

Schuman works mainly with street style photography thoough he has also worked with many well known brands such as ralph lauren, coach, mazerati etc. He also has photo collections in museums.

https://www.thesartorialist.com/

https://www.instagram.com/thesartorialist/?hl=en

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Stock

Stock Photos are photos that are often liscenced for specific purposes. These photos are taken, edited and often uploaded to stock libraries for people that may need to use them for projects intead of them hiring a photographer. some popular stock images include people, travel, animals and food.

Some Stock Libraries

Getty Images

Alamy

Istock

Shutterstock

Pixabay

https://www.stockphotosecrets.com/questions-answers/how-do-stock-photos-work-beginners-guide.html

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evaluation

the aim of this project was to create a stop motion video with the theme of food. i found editing this project interesting as it was interesting to see photos turn into a video as i had never made a stop motion before though it was also partially annoying as i seen the mistakes i had made when taking the images. in this project i learned how to make a stop motion which included learning how to batch edit photos and make an image sequence in a few different softwares. i would like to make more stop motions to learn more and improve the final result of my stop motions in the future. though i didnt reseach many specific photographers i did watch quite a few stop motion videos on youtube which i feel helped me to decide what i was going to do for my stop motion. when i was shooting my stop motion the camera was too high for me to be able to see what i was shooting which resulted in some images being out of focus and some parts of the video being slightly out of frame next time i do this i will connect my phone to my camera so that i can see the images when taking them to fix these issues. some of my images are slightly out of focus and some are slightly out of frame one of the frames in the video was overexposed despite the light and camera settings not changing which i tried to fix in lightroom. if i were to do this again i would try a different angle or try to add more in the video such as making the cookies at the start as it looks a bit odd for the video to start where it does.

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contact sheet

bts

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moving image

the aim of this project was to research, plan and make a short video to advertise something. i enjoyed planning and making the video the most as i found it interesting to see how good planning affects the video. i have experienced many new techniques in this project. i would like to learn how to edit better as i was not very sure what i was doing most of the time. i didnt really research speific photographers during this project but i did watch amny different adverts to get inspiration which i feel helped me when planning what type of shots i wanted to do. i feel that my close in shots were more successful than my other shots as i feel they just look a bit better. i did not know how to edit videos at all which became quite a bit of a struggle and i am unsure i managed to crop the video to the correct aspect ratio which i dont think i did though i tried many times to as well as the place being very messy which i did not always manage to spot until after shooting if i were to do this again i wold maybe try it at a different time in the day and i would also have liked to add a few different shots but i was unable to. the video could definetely be improved but for my first time trying to make a video.

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Composite Research

Erik Johansson is a surrealist photographer born in sweden in 1985 currently based in prague. he does both personal and commission based work and he makes images by taking several photos and combini ghtem to make one image. i like this image as i feel like the photo looks interesting i feel that the lighting in the images match very well as if it wasnt such an absurd photo you wouldnt know that it was edited

Adrien Sommeling

Adrien Sommeling is a conceptual portrait artist based in the netherlands who will often use his photo manipulations to tell a story he works in commercial and advertising photography. i like this image as i feel the lighting matches between the two images and i like the concept of the image as the person at the back of the boat makes me think of the boats in the canals and the background of the image also reminds me of a holiday destinati.I like the detail of the grime on the side of the camera as it makes you think that it has been in the water for quite a while.

Rafy Alfazari

Rafy Alfazri is an indoneasian photo. i like this image as i feel that it gives off a very dreamy fantasy vibe and i think that the clouds blending into the water has been done well.

Jerry Uelsman

Chris Dessaigne

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to make my lost and found image i used two images i had taken for this brief one of a pond near my house and one of a rubber duck that i had taken in as similar lighting conditions as i could get to the pond photo.

photos of rubber duck and pond

to make the image i edited them in lightroom and then opened the background image in photoshop

bg in ps photoshop

i then opened the other image in photoshop and used the pen tool to cut it out and added a layer mask

pen path ss, make selection ss, layer mask ss

i then decided to add the refection of the duck in the water to do so i made a selection of the duck and copy and pasted it into a new layer.

photo

i then made a new photoshop document and made a displacement map

ss and explain how to make a distortion map

fill layer with black

add noise hit maximum

filter> gaussian blur

go to layers panle and hit channel

hit red channel filter stylise emboss angle 180 height 1 ammount max

hit green same thing as above only angle at 90 height 1 amount max

edit transform perspective pull bottom corners out

save as psd

filter

distort

displace

final image

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MvjWH8opK0&t=228s

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research

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Zma2_n5CA

i chose this advert as it is one that even though i havent seen for years i remebered it as i thought it was funny it was shown on tv. it usues only a few types of shots but i feel that it works very well for the advert and the advert worked well as it was funny and the person turning everything he touches into skittles works well because of the slogan? at eh end.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3XmVt27RI4

i chose this advert as i found it okay to watch and is similar to the ad i want to try to create there are many different locations in this advert it was played on tv and was made to show a new game it also shows off the game console. it uses different types of shots such as long shot and close up and as it is showing off a game it also has screen recordings of the game in it which i found interesting though i dont think it would be allowed for this brief for me to do something like that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIVDxL2lgN4

i chose this advert as it is also one i remember being on TV as i found it funny. there are a many different shots in this advert including long shots, close in shots, tilt etc.