tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13233316358741745932024-02-07T00:09:46.133-08:00Parth's Photojournalism BlogThis blog is for my Intro to PJ class at Owens Community College in Toledo, Ohio. Follow me on Twitter @Parth_Pitroda2Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14189468814027051577noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1323331635874174593.post-54725019269517598422013-12-10T19:30:00.001-08:002013-12-11T06:24:13.288-08:00Final team photo story on Wood Lane Industries Our photojournalism class did our final team photo story on Wood Lane Industries in Bowling Green Ohio. People with developmental disabilities are given job opportunities, and they reside there as well. Overall, I feel that this photo story gave me a chance to experience real life job scenario of a photojournalist.
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">Bill Fox, 62, makes a sandwich at his place of residence Wood Lane. <i>(PHO245 photos by Parth Pitroda)</i></td></tr>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">Elaine Johnston, 69, does the laundry. <i>(PHO245 photos by Parth Pitroda)</i> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Photo stories can be tough to photograph and document. This is true
because there are several things that you have to take into account beforehand.
To tell a story you must present a substantial amount of images while making
sure they have some sort of continuity to them. Furthermore, it’s important to
cover the necessary information in the caption such as who, what, when, where,
why, and how.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Documenting the scene on site
is a tricky process. Preparing for reporting is also helpful. Sometimes improvising
is necessary once at the scene. The first step you should take upon arriving at
a destination is to introduce yourself to the main person in charge. Then,
kindly ask them to sit in a quiet place so you can document them using an audio
recorder for live coverage. This whole process was overwhelming to me at first.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> I prepared for this photo
story by looking at the organization’s website and doing some research. This
gave me a general idea of what to expect at Wood Lane, an organization that helps
people with disabilities, which was the focus of my story. Shooting some of the
tenants while they were in action was difficult to do. The lighting conditions
inside one of the homes limited my camera controls. Small room sizes also
narrowed the amount of angles which were available to use for the camera. This
was challenging for me, but proved to be a good </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">learning experience. After the
Wood Lane photo shoot was over, nervousness broke onto me, it went too fast.
Overall, I feel this photo story assignment has given me good photojournalism
experience. Although it was nothing like
anything I had worked with before, I was able to learn a lot and am eager to
continue learning through experiences like this.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14189468814027051577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1323331635874174593.post-37084214975508160812013-11-18T09:53:00.000-08:002013-11-21T11:46:34.013-08:00The art and rules used in sports photography<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;">Owens' Paige
Wright drives to the basket in front of Mercyhurst's Aeriyelle Perrin during the Owens Express Tip Off Classic at Owens Community College. <i>(PHO245 photos by Parth Pitroda)</i></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sports photography is an art
not everyone can do. It requires lot of patience and practice. When covering
sports, you need to await the right moment to fire the camera, otherwise a live
action shot could be missed. It is also important to know the rules and scoring
method of the sport you are photographing, so you can catch the busy most crucial
moments in that particular sport.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> My experience photographing
sports is nominal. Although there is a lot that can be learned in sports photography
I found no interest in it. The highest useable ISO was 1600 which limited
shutter speed to a maximum of 1/250sec. For this reason sports is harder than I
expected it to be. There are many challenges which I faced, one of which
includes focusing the camera on a fast moving subject. Another is finding an interesting
yet appropriate vantage point like </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">capturing the coaches at a unique angle</span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> and getting a decent feature fan shot </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">which still showed all the important content. Nothing was enjoyable in this assignment because, I was not familiar with it.
Overall, I feel sports photography is horrifying but it was a wonderful
learning experience. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14189468814027051577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1323331635874174593.post-71802505910008315912013-11-11T01:00:00.000-08:002013-12-09T09:56:34.572-08:00The unique qualities of portrait photography and my experiences with it as a photojournalist<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"></span></span><br />
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Aj Coulson, auto tech, Sylvania OH, 21, hands out tools to all the automotive and </div>
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cat students in the transportation technologies because classes need tools to work on</div>
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equipment in the Transportation Technology Building at Owens Community College. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Portrait photography, defined by the technique
required and type of environment used, is best when you are in control of the
light that is falling on your subject. It is important to be relatively quick
and efficient when shooting portraits. People tend to lose patience if you take
your time adjusting your camera controls. A good portrait photographer will get
his light equipment, camera gear, set up well before it is time to photograph the
subject. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most people think of portrait
photography as a studio type atmosphere. The photographer would shoot indoors
and use external lighting to illuminate the person being photographed.
Backgrounds of different styles are used by the photographer for aesthetic
appeal. Studio photographers have the public come to them to be photographed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Photojournalists also shoot portraits
along with their news photography. Unlike portraits taken in the studio, a
photojournalist shoots environmental portraiture. The people stay in their
natural habitat while being photographed. The environment is used as a prop
that relates to the person. Environmental portraits can be shot candid as well
as posed as opposed to studio pictures which are generally posed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found shooting portraits quite
interesting and fun, however it was different than expected. My perception of portraiture
was to go find someone interesting and just photograph them. Instead, I found
myself constantly moving to get the correct lighting to fall on my subject.
Once that was achieved, I could then take the shot. Capturing portraits was definitely
harder than I expected. Photographing people is getting easier for me but there
are a few spots in which I could improve. For example, the composition of the <a href="http://www.sophiafieldphotography.com/headshot_guide.html" target="_blank">head shot</a> was most challenging to me. Overall, I feel photographing portraits is fun
and exhilarating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feature photography is fun and
tricky at the same time. Feature photography is the lighter, more entertaining
side of news. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Photographing features can be fun because you
get to meet new people doing odd and out of the ordinary things. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> The kind of
thing you may find in feature photography is people doing interesting
activities that are of human interest. Some of these activities, for example,
could be a man running with one fake, metal leg; a blind person dancing on
the stage; a dare devil jumping off a cliff. The more the photographer looks
around, the more feature photography he or she may find. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Feature photography can also
be tricky. The trickiness occurs when looking for it. The photojournalist has
to be alert while shooting an assignment, and even after, because you never know when
there is a feature photography opportunity. Features also give the
photojournalist a change from plain old hard news.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hunting for feature
photography has been quite a journey for me. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to deal with poor indoor lighting. Camera
controls were limited because of the lighting situation, which meant shallow
depth of field and a slower shutter speed. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> The search for feature finding was
harder than I expected because the School of Technology, which was my beat had very
little going on this week. I had to go there spend all day waiting for
something interesting to photograph. Photographing people has always been a
challenge for me as opposed to tangible objects and still is so no, I am not getting used to people
photography. Composing the photographs in a tight spot with very little room to
move around is what was challenging in this assignment. The type of lens I was
using also limited my widest aperture to f3.5, with only an 18mm lens being widest
which challenged my camera skills. I feel that feature photography is fun and
can be challenging in some ways. </span></div>
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<tr align="left"><td class="tr-caption">Lata Sangtani, 2nd from right, serves at the Hindu Temple of Toledo in Sylvania, Ohio. (PHO245 photos by Parth Pitroda)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sherry Clark reads a magazine</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most important thing I learned from this assignment are the design elements form the NewsU tutorial. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> The elements were the rule of thirds, different perspectives, and Sense of Place. The Sense of Place element was the
most interesting and new to me. There were some other ones that were confusing.
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Image composition was old news
to me. Practicing the rule of thirds is routine to me. There is one new composition
technique, juxtaposition which was quite interesting. This composition style
demonstrates togetherness in an image guiding the viewer to the subject. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ric Wolkins paints a pottery building.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the camera operations
are quite fond of me. Camera settings can be confusing to some
photographers at first. The reason they can be confusing is when the ISO is maxed out, the photographer has to compensate using either f-stop or shutter
speed. The photographer then needs to give up depth or use a slow shutter speed
this is when it gets tricky. A sports scene for example would be hard to use
slow shutter speed because, slow shutter speed blur action. I can name many
camera settings that come into play to make proper reciprocity but to name a
few are: white balance (color balance), aperture (depth), shutter speed (motion).
I feel that this assignment motivated me to be better at using my camera to
make outstanding yet strong in design photographs. </span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14189468814027051577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1323331635874174593.post-42987915145987606012013-10-01T22:12:00.002-07:002013-10-05T13:28:00.693-07:00How to be an efficient caption writer for PJ<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> Captions are important to mount with you picture in photojournalism because, they identify and explain facts that aren’t perceived by the audience viewing them. The captions are needed to let people know of the missing elements in a photo. These are some thing that I learned:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Caption shouldn’t exceed more than two sentences </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The importance of having the peoples’ names in the photo going from left to right and also letting your readers know that is in your captions <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What is going on in the picture or the
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<li><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Never include past and present tenses in a caption otherwise the reader will get
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Associated-Press-Stylebook-Briefing-Media/dp/0465082998/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1381000246&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=ap+styebook" target="_blank">AP Stylebook</a> is a guide used by amateur
and pro photojournalists to ensure correct grammar is acquired in their writing
and style. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>more confident about writing and getting the
proper information for my captions after doing this assignment from the AP Stylebook.</span></div>
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I learned while <a href="http://giveawaytuesdays.wonderhowto.com/inspiration/10-photography-tips-for-mastering-your-camera-phone-0128865/">researching</a> the topic of cell phone photography that lighting
gets tricky in bright sun, particularly when it comes to portraits. You want an
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I also learned that panning is possible on cell phone cameras, which
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"> The First Amendment: <i><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Congress shall make no law
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gives me </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">as a student freedom to write, post, and publish whatever I please with minor
boundaries to private property. This freedom of free press is really helpful
and important to me as a photojournalism student because without it,
photojournalism would be risky. I have learned that photojournalism requires
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> I created this blog for my
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> As part of my first assignment, I have I love to shoot and process photographs. I
also love to watch major tennis tournaments on TV, talking to people and </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">bowling. </span>I love to use
computers as a hobby since I was a child. I also love to travel a lot, whether
it’s on planes, automobiles or boats. </span><br />
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Every now and then I like
watching movies at theaters, as well as just watching them on DVD in the comfort
of my home or a friend’s home. </span></div>
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