Student photographers still need to capture great moments even when they do not have a staff camera in their possession.
Photography
From high school and college to the professional work world, the time I spent working with photo editor after photo editor helped shape my own vision as a photographer and made me into the photojournalist I became.
You may be covering an action-packed game, but you will get few good images for your yearbook unless you learn how to shoot action in the lights of a gym. Learning about light, whether it is for basketball or any other situation, means understanding some fundamental concepts: quantity, quality and direction.
When a photographer working for any student media operation takes an assignment, it is more than just an opportunity to go shoot a few snapshots and visit with friends. It is a job. It is an agreement to document history. And the work begins before snapping any photos.
One of the biggest challenges of putting together the middle school yearbook is getting photo coverage of every school event. Read how one staff tackles this by using a couple of effective strategies.
Photography is fun. At least shooting is. But it isn’t easy.
Three college photographers and I spent an entire day recently shooting rugby. Only one of us had ever shot rugby before, so this was a new adventure.
Photographers who consistently capture good, storytelling images for the yearbook do so in part because, like great journalistic writers, they rely on the strategies of great reporting.
What to look for in a fixed-lens digital camera
Basic elements of composition help strengthen all types of photographs that are in today’s photojournalistic yearbooks.
In planning your yearbook, understand all of the elements related to photography that can impact the quality of your book.
