No one asking you to be an expert – or artistic – straight tele style news pic Principles to think about – very similar to the news values we covered before lunch.
Try not to make it more than two or three – it’s not a school photo! Often you’ll see photographers struggling with this – to get all the politicians and VIPs in to keep people happy, and then one of the cute kid
CASS No one is expecting you to be experts, but there are some basic things to keep in mind Don’t be sucked in by friendly chat – they’e writing everything down. Exercise Back to our pic What’s wrong with it, if we look at this list? People – lots of them, but no faces Action – what are they doing..sitting on their bums Relevance – how do we know this is about fire training? Sex appeal – bout as sexy and news worthy as my gran Framing? – lots and lots of wasted space In focus – hard to tell because everything is so far away. Lighting – dark and light. Here’s a bttrer one, this time from Blue Mtns for their fire training day.
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