Photojournalists are witnesses and documenters of history, and journalistic photography is an important agent of social change.
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MoPho portfolio exercises
A list of our weekly exercises, which you’ll need to post as a portfolio of work in a gallery on your WordPress sites for assessment. Feel free to interpret each in any way you want to, though the theme of each photograph should be clear to a viewer.
You can also do more than one photo for each theme. The more we shoot, the better we get 🙂
#silhouette
#emotion
#reflection
#portrait by a window
#warmth
#lines
#high key (not the musical kind!)
#low key (^ Ditto)
#spring
#love
#humansofTAFE
#rule of thirds
#water
#love
#5photosofarelative (that convey character and tell a story)
#ChinatownSydney (you can find the brief here)
#flower
#animal
#artisticportraitofaperson
#strangerinthestreet (in the style of Magnum photographer Trent Parke‘s street photography)
#product (two photos)
Intro to MoPho & first apps
In his video, iPhone photographer Emil Pakarklis explains seven really simple techniques you can use to make your mobile photography good. As with DSLR and larger format photography, the key ingredients are light, composition, and perspective or point of view.
Straight to the Source: Interviewing via Twitter
TOPIC: Using Twitter to find a person to interview.
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A bit of history
Read: The photograph and Australia: timeline
Look: 25 of the most iconic photographs and 40 Must-See photos from the past
Today we’ll have a brief look at the history of news photography and the “news” in news photography; we’ll consider photographers as journalists and vice versa (the blurred lines of being multiskilled) – and the importance of knowing the story and recognising the most significant element(s).
