Following last week, I have finalised the pictures that I want to use and the style that I want to edit them In. I want to ensure that in all of the pictures used for the article, they are all in focus so this meant getting rid of some of the pictures which I though told a good story, like the following.
The picture above is confrontational and even has Dave holding up the three signs as he shoots three-pointers all the time. I recall Dave saying after the picture was taken that you’ve got to play up for the camera’s sometimes.
The reason Dave was out of focus was because I had the lens set to capture a certain distance from the camera. When I was sat just near the basket the players would normally be a set distance away from me when trying to score so I had adjusted the camera for this distance.
The picture above was edited in the style that I want my final piece to be like which meant turning down the contrast layer to -30 and turning the exposure to +30. This changed the colouring of the pictures slightly but shows that attention has been paid to them and will give a consistent slick look to the final piece.
Photographic Journalism 
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