21 tips for beginners photo reporters
Tips / / December 19, 2019
Alex Marahovets, Blogger, photographer and traveler, based on their experience was a short course on how to learn to do live reportage photos, catch the key point shooting. We hasten to share this note with you and not a second longer dare to tear you away from the process of improving their own skills in reportage photography.
How to take a good story, he wanted to publish a well-known Internet resources? How to make a perfect, unusual, "talking" pictures at the event, where, except for you, there are still 100,500 people like you, the photographers? Or maybe you are a wedding photographer, and just want to tighten their reportage of the shooting? Then you will help some simple but effective tips.
Do not think that reportage photography - the simplest of all. Like, Davie Me button, Lupi as a machine gun, and everything will be fine. But no, if you do this you just get a huge pile nobody interesting shots and wasted resources, reduce the shutter. Journalism - a rather complicated genre. In it you need to follow all the rules and laws of the photos, but take into account the time factor always plays against you.
No wonder the key concept of sequential shooting is the term "decisive moment", and the main task of the photographer is to catch it.
While not forgetting about everything else that you need to perform to get a technically acceptable picture. The ability to select and catch the decisive moment comes with experience, and it just is what is called talent - this will tell you the best career of the master reportage by Henri Cartier-Bresson. But a few simple tips will help you move up one notch to improve their skills in reportage photography.
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Before shooting the scroll in his head, what would you do you want to talk about the event and take pictures already on the text as it would complement and strengthening. Make it a plan-task. But unplanned interesting scenes only decorate your report.
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Always think that you can and want to say this image. No need to make "silent" pictures. Reportage photography should say (cry, cry, laugh) itself, without text.
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Look for interesting perspectives. Simple Shot "head" is banal. So did 99% of photographers. Think how would remove the majority of what is happening and do not take the case. Successful angle - half the success. A popular urban game "Photocross" - excellent training for a reporter to any experience!
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Be mobile. You need to be in several places at the same time. However, good movement, plan routes, so as not to disturb the audience and other photographers. Remember: a good photographer as a vampire - it is not reflected in the mirror and on the other photographers photos.
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Plan ahead for filming locations, and what the lens is removed from there. It is best to have a versatile lens that covers all the focal lengths. In this regard, the work of a reporter is not much different from craft sniper and killer.
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Get a lens with a long focal and a wide range of focal lengths. Cheap "generalists" for a story quite fit - ringing sharpness on the faces of you to anything.
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Remove what is happening not only on stage but in the auditorium. Without emotion the audience is difficult to convey the atmosphere of the event. Note to broadcast concerts and on TV KVN - faces the most emotional spectators from the audience make up a large part of the plans.
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Catch funny grimaces, absurd movements, caught people by surprise. Some well-known publications specially sharpened for the use of "unruly" pictures: politicians, pick your nose, throat, or stumbling stars.
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Be sure to make general plans, medium and large. This is one of the basic tenets of reportage.
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composition rules work for all kinds of photography, including reportage. Do not forget Rule of Thirds and other compositional rules.
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Always try to use a high shutter speed by increasing ISO. Even if you have a camera with a "noisy" matrix, the image quality web-size will be OK. In addition, there are a lot of software "shumodava".
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But do not get carried away "shumodava" during processing. A small residual noise itself will disappear with a decrease in the photos. But "plasticine" after excessive facial treatment and stay.
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Do not use the flash when shooting concerts in rooms without reflective surfaces: it spoils thoughtful specialist lighting design scene. In addition, Flash has the ability to slow down and you run the risk of making a snapshot of the right moment when it is not ready.
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Remember the current focal length of the lens and set exposure. For telephoto lenses need very little exposure. Remember the formula: maximum exposure = 1 / focal length of the current - and make a stock towards its reduction.
Learn to be guided on the shutter sound ( "klats-klats" or "klaaaaaats-klats") and in the case of long exposure pictures immediately alter if in aperture priority shooting mode.
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Remember that a tripod makes you less mobile and does not prevent blur when shooting moving images in maloosveschonnom room. In a pinch, you can use a monopod to get rid of the proportion of blurring due to shaking hands and cameras.
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Do not forget about cropping - this is your true friend that can make seemingly unsuccessful photographs perfect shot.
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Removing the report, do not forget sometimes alternate horizontal and vertical shots: a variety of formats will then put together a better picture of the unit.
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Only remove RAW. Of intracameral JPEG has nothing good to draw, if necessary.
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Do not forget to make some shots that would have tied your future report to the scene. For example, these frames should get recognized all the buildings, monuments, objects.
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Do as much as you can always doubles scene. Noticed how pop closures professionals at press conferences? One and at the same time technically very bad picture right moment - it's epic fail photo reporters can do seppuku.
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Oh, and do not forget to buy some roomy and the fastest memory card, class 10 the least. About a spare battery you are likely to know.
Good luck!