{"id":80347,"date":"2016-09-28T13:51:59","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T18:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=80347"},"modified":"2016-09-28T14:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T19:01:44","slug":"80347","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2016\/09\/28\/80347\/","title":{"rendered":"Photojournalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rex Dolby<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_80351\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-80351\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80351\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DolbyPhotojournalism-1024x819.jpg\" alt=\"An example of photojournalism, where the picture helps tell the story: EMS staff attends to a Little League catcher beaned by a foul ball. (Photo by Rex Dolby.)\" width=\"330\" height=\"264\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-80351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An example of photojournalism, where the picture helps tell the story: EMS staff attends to a Little League catcher beaned by a foul ball. (Photo by Rex Dolby.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With so much going on in the world,\u00a0here are some tips on\u00a0Photojournalism, which can be defined as collecting and presenting a news story\u00a0with an\u00a0image or images\u00a0that are more\u00a0significant than the written story.\u00a0 Some suggestions\u00a0that may aid in that effort are:<\/p>\n<p>If possible, spend some time with the people you are about to shoot to gain their trust before you start snapping pictures.<\/p>\n<p>Be as unobtrusive as possible in how you dress and the lens you use\u00a0to catch true action (not staged for effect).\u00a0 Shoot with available light so a flash doesn&#8217;t call attention to you.<\/p>\n<p>Learn to hold your camera steady\u00a0without a tripod so you can easily move rapidly to a different angle.<\/p>\n<p>Compose your picture to include what is necessary to tell the story and avoid what\u00a0may be\u00a0unnecessary and distracting.<\/p>\n<p>Start wide to establish a context for the story and then zero in on the most important elements.<\/p>\n<p>When covering a sad or disturbing scene, be sensitive to the people you&#8217;re photographing and the way your pictures will tell their story.<\/p>\n<p>People with authority may try to prevent you from shooting.\u00a0 Know your rights.\u00a0 Your coverage may reveal what they are attempting to hide.<\/p>\n<p>We hope the situation doesn&#8217;t arise where you will want to use these suggestions, but if it does, you\u00a0may now record the scene with a\u00a0better chance of success.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An example of photojournalism, where the picture helps tell the story: EMS staff attends to a Little League catcher beaned by a foul ball. (Photo by Rex Dolby.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rex Dolby &nbsp; With so much going on in the world,\u00a0here are some tips on\u00a0Photojournalism, which can be defined as collecting and presenting a news story\u00a0with an\u00a0image or images\u00a0that are more\u00a0significant than the written story.\u00a0 Some suggestions\u00a0that may aid in that effort are: If possible, spend some time with the people you are about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-06 12:51:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}