Photographer's story and picture

Photojournalism in today’s society is a fun and interesting job however at one point it is a difficult and dangerous job that one can have. One may endanger his/her life especially those who were assign to the war country. This is because they constantly risk their lives bringing the latest news to the country.

However the pitfall of photojournalist is reported in the article. It is that some stories were modified by the editors. Not just story were edited even pictures were chosen by the editors, they are the ones who have the authority to show the readers what they want them to know and see. After all the hard work of photojournalist, their story may not turn out exactly the same in the newspaper.

‘’...It's him that I trust. Whereas in the media, we have editors, publishers, who are sitting at their desks with their own political or ideological views of telling the story’’ (Wade Goddard 2007).

In this case, Schirato and Yell (1996) stated that a narrative is a way of structuring meanings in the form of a story. Although news and/or story appear seemingly nice and understandable, but not all news has the narrative that was written by the journalist. The editors expectation were so high and wanting the story like how they ideologically expected but did not achieve, therefore changes the story bits by bits.

For now let’s talk about photography. Photojournalists are the people with creativity this is because their writing and photography skill were so great that many people respect, even I envy it. According to Reep (2006) stated that balance is a comparable visual ‘weight’ on both sides of a page or on opposing pages. This means that perfect picture has its own balance therefore as a photographer, setting up a position and composition to capture one perfect picture is not easy. In addition every picture taken has its own meaning behind.

Does everyone agree that pictures worth a thousand words? It depends; according to Walsh (2006) pictures have its own meaning, known as visual grammars. Visual grammars help audience to interpret the meaning behind the picture, making readers to understand what it means easily. Some people may interpret the meaning differently.

(Picture taken from Video Ut Intellectum)

To me this picture mean that the brother trying to make up a story to blame it on the dog.
What about you? Many people have different thoughts and therefore creates different meaning. Some may even say that both the brothers trying to sweap the evidence away and pretend it never happens, but the dog heard it.

Picture is worth a thousand words, as far as sports concern is true. According to artsyTime (2009) there are many wonderful and unforgettable moments captured by photographers. The same action may not repeat, therefore a picture is a treasure.

(Source: Picture take from artsyTime.com)


(Source: Picture take from artsyTime.com)

References

1. artsyTime 2009, A Picture Worth A Thousand Words, artsyTime.com, viewed 3 June, < http://artsytime.com/a-picture-worth-a-thousand-words/>.

2. Reep, DC 2006, Technical Writing, Pearson, NY, Ch. 6, pp. 133-172.

3. Schirato, T and Yell, S 1996, Communication and cultural literacy: an introduction, St. Leonards, NSW, Ch. 5, pp. 90-117.

4. Walsh, M 2006, The ‘textual stuff’: Examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts, vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 24-37.