Category - photo journalism

[Lovin]

I found a photo from last summer, and is not post processed.
I wanna know what's wrong and what's good.

Thank you, again.

[Iguanasan]

It looks like a pretty good shot to me.

If I had any comments I would say that some of the whites are a little too white so you probably have a few blown highlights. Not knowing the game I have no idea what's going on. If you want to make this photo journalism then I think you need to focus on telling a story. This is just a bunch of guys milling about.

[Mad Aussie]

The first thing that's wrong is it's Cricket! You Americans can simply think of it as baseball on valium. ;)

The photos is fine I think Lovin. Depends what you were going for. Being that this is game I would think a better photo would obviously be whatever passes for 'action' in Cricket. I guess the good thing is you'd rarely need a shutter speed faster than 1/60th :rolleyes:

The white may need a fraction of correction too. They don't quite look white enough.

[Lovin]

You're right, both of you.
The thing is, that when I took this photo I was paying attention to DoF, exposure, composition but never thought as a photo journalism. Just now came in my mind that could be in this category.

The photo looks dynamic, you can see intention, movement, but because of my experience, I missed some elements.
The photo is exactly like in the camera, not touched with post processing software.

[Mad Aussie]

I see IG thought the whites were too white and I thought they weren't white enough :confused:

Looking closer I can see that some of the whites look blue and some look green ... perhaps some reflection from the grass/sky or something.

[Lovin]

I thinks is something that is lost on upload, or when was exported for email format.

[mindforge]

With photodocs... I need to see a story, something needs to hop out and say... this is what this is.

I mean... personally, I see a few people shaking hands... maybe its golf, or cricket... the thing with shots like this is you need to punch the viewer in the face with what is going on.

Shots like this are great for personal collections but when you are really trying to improve on photo journalism, one of the biggest things is relating a story...

Example... if this shot was taken with the items from the sport in the foreground with them shaking hands in the background, it would tell more of a story that would help relate the content immediately.

My .02

[Iguanasan]

I see IG thought the whites were too white and I thought they weren't white enough :confused:

Looking closer I can see that some of the whites look blue and some look green ... perhaps some reflection from the grass/sky or something.

I guess I was specifically talking about the highlights. The left side of most of these people seem overexposed (white too white). The rest of their clothing does have a slightly different tinge of green/blue but I put that down to reflections.

[tomorrowstreasures]

With photodocs... I need to see a story, something needs to hop out and say... this is what this is.

I mean... personally, I see a few people shaking hands... maybe its golf, or cricket... the thing with shots like this is you need to punch the viewer in the face with what is going on.

Shots like this are great for personal collections but when you are really trying to improve on photo journalism, one of the biggest things is relating a story...

Example... if this shot was taken with the items from the sport in the foreground with them shaking hands in the background, it would tell more of a story that would help relate the content immediately.

My .02

I totally agree with MF here.... And relating the story you want told... when i first looked at it, i had no idea it was about a sport - i thought something totally different... medics congregating.
question: were you wanting to know if this worked for pj?