Photojournalism
Photojournalism is the genre of photography which has to 'bring the message' to the people in the other part of the world or people in the future and make them realise what kind of happy or terrible events are/were happening somewhere else. Based on my own experience, I think that photojournalism photos are often more valuable and clearer than the 3-pages long article. However, in a lot of cases, shooting a photojournalism photos is one of the riskiest and most dangerous jobs. Photographer -just like in the sport photography- has to use the perfect aperture, angle, tone, view and look at the centre of action, with the only difference, which is taking those photos in the centre of war zone or raging crowd all around him. In this chaos, artist has to keep calm and focused on his own task, which is showing what happens around him to the people few thousands miles away from him. On the other hand, photojournalism also includes taking pictures in more peaceful places, this involves showing and documenting how the town and community is growing and what problems and the great events they are facing throughout the time.
Chris Hondros
Hondros (1970-2011) was an excellent American photojournalist and war photographer who was taking the photos of the different conficts, main ones are Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan. He was always believing that this is his responsibility to 'bring the story of those impacted to the world'. In my opinion he was one of not only the bravest but also one of the best photojournalists in the history, even after his death, his photographs are clearly showing the emotions which were going on in the places he was in, by using the right lighting and tones going along with perfect perspective. Moreover, Hondros was very good not only in showing the destruction as a result of conflict but also, on many of his photos he showed the beauty and some happiness which is still remaining in those places- which are people.
David Seymour
Seymour (1911-1956) born is Poland, was a very skilled and professional photojournalist photographer. In 30s and 40s he was shooting photos in different parts of the world, he is very famous for the photographs of the Spanish civil war. In my opinions, Seymour's pictures are remarkable because of his skills in correct use of aperture as well as balancing tones; subjects on his photos are always clearly focused and kept in the centre of viewer's attention. Furthermore, he was perfectly capturing people's emotions and feelings on his photographs.
Personally, I really like this experiment, because it shows, almost 'highlights' stress nowadays which can be seen in a small details everywhere around us, even though we often don't see it. My intentions were to focus this picture on cigarettes, to make the audience look at them first. To achieve my target I firstly copied the original layer and then I made on of them black and white, after that, I used eraser tool to carefully remove black and white from a cigarettes. My next step was experimenting with colour balance, gamma, contrast and saturation to make the colours looking bright enough, but not too shiny and also I wanted to make the street in the background looking darker and possibly older (in style of 60s-70s). Finally, I'm very satisfied with this experiment, the only thing I would change is different angle and perspective, in my opinion, I think that the bin takes too much space on a picture, on the other hand, in some ways the bin 'underlines' the subject of the photo.