In this week we learned about the difference between photojournalism and illustrative journalism. This allowed us to understand the differences in genres and gave us more of an idea of what we would like to do for our final project after looking at examples from famous photographer.
So the task was to research the genre that we wanted to do for our project and find out about other people’s work and what the genre entails. I decided that documentary reportage would work best for me and is one that I was most interested in. After finding out some history around the genre I looked into Don McCullin who is a war photographer and also Jane Stockdale who is a sports photographer. I would mainly focus on sports so being able to see that Stockdale captured the emotions of people in her images is something that I would look to do rather than just the action.
I also found that shutter speed is particularly important when taking images which also links to the feedback I received on my images that the action shots were too blurry so using a proper camera would help with this and increase the quality in my images.
Photographic Journalism 