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History of Military Photojournalism
Coverage Planning

Journalist 3 & 2 - Introduction to Journalism and other reporting practices
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PH2 Lawrence T. Henderson Figure 12-2.—News photograph with action and impact. can support headlines and written spot news accounts as well as feature stories. The photograph serves as a definition for words. No two people imagine identical photographs through words alone.   Groups   of   words   rarely   cause   similar   mental images   in   everyone.   Different   people   see   different photographs  in  their   mental  interpretations   of  verbal descriptions   of   a   given   scene.   From   a   photograph, everyone gets the same mental picture. TYPES OF NEWS PHOTOGRAPHS What is a news photograph? Just about everything said about  recognizing  and  gathering  news  also  can  be applied to the news photograph. News photographs also have common  news  elements.  These same  10 elements —   immediacy,   proximity,   consequence,   prominence, suspense, oddity, conflict, sex, emotion and progress — are  essential  to  successful  photojournalism.  You  can judge the newsworthiness of a photograph by the degree to which these elements are present. The newsworthiness of  a  photograph,  like  that  of  an  event,  depends  on  the strength of intensity of the news element it contains. Nearly all news photography is classified into  two categories: spot and feature news. This applies to sports as well as any other type of newsworthy activity. Since the  spot  news  photograph  achieves  a  dramatic  quality, the  unrehearsed  action  is  obvious  to  the  reader.  The feature   photograph,   on   the   other   hand,   consists   of elements that allow it to tell its story with a brief cutline, or on many occasions, without a cutline. Spot News In  covering  unrehearsed  action,  control  over  the kind of photograph you will get is somewhat limited by the situation. For example, in shooting a boxing match, you work at top speed and usually under great pressure. You record developments as they occur with little regard for the control of the men in the ring. Your ingenuity and alert observations will have to be called upon to ensure any  technical  quality  at  all.  In  shooting  well-known personalities,    you    should    photograph    them    doing something.  A  photograph  without  action,  regardless  of the  prominence  of  the  personality,  is  not  in  itself  a storytelling photograph. The successful and usable news photograph has action and impact (fig. 12-2) and 12-3







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