Media Captures

*I was going to hand in my rubric Friday but needed it to finish the project. No marks will be deducted for this :) !

Part 1:

Photojournalism Ethics

As media becomes a bigger and bigger part of society, the need for restrictions on Photojournalism will become increasingly important. The rules that photographers should live by are simple I believe. I feel that if the photographer would not like a picture of themselves in the certain objective situation then they should not publish it. Although, this is highly unrealistic in today’s world where photographs can be worth large amounts of money. Either way the photographer should put themselves in the shoes of the person in the picture, we are all humans deserve privacy and do not like our lives on display for others enjoyment. There is a time and place for media to capture their images at events and gatherings where the model would be expecting pictures.

I think having a code of conduct is necessary to keep photographers from crossing the line of what gets displayed in the public’s eye. Simple ethical boundaries would begin to get crossed almost immediately and the results would be tragic for many people’s lives whether they are in the media or not. In our media today there is a line that is vaguely visible and is being pushed constantly and I believe if we keep going too far beyond a certain point the aspect of Photojournalism will itself into trouble or have to be reconsidered totally. Ultimately it comes down to what we accept as a society and when we will decide that enough is enough and where to draw our ethical boundaries.

 

Part 2:

Image 1



This manipulative angle was aimed to promote a Liberal vote out of it's viewer. Having the high school students in approxamitly 2/3 of the picture and clapping poses a positive attitude. Leaving the posters and table to around 1/3 of the picture. Students are always looked at in a broad sense as beibng innocent and important because they are the future. The Liberal brochures demonstrate that Frank Valeriote is getting involved and is concerned about our students. It is not directly stating to vote Liberal but the brochures are obviously the focal point of the image. I kept the tight cropping about the students heads and table to keep the focus on the relavent information. I believe this picture is professional to be published but only by a pro Liberal stance.

Image 2

This birds eye view of the assembly shows the attentive audience, various political party leaders and focal point speaker at the podium. I did not intentional make the focal point the podium but the more I refer back to the image I realize my attention is drawn to the Lourdes L in the general middle of the picture. We get a diverse dimension of the picture by the blurry person at the bottom of the picture and the railing behind him. This does show the birds eye view and makes the picture more interesting. I wanted to keep the candidates to make it more clear what the event was about. Similarly, I chose to crop tightly around the VOTE poster and Canadian flag, just to subconsciously show that we are promoting voting in Canada and not America or another country. Finally, I chose to crop some of the audience out to only keep relevant people with no clutter around the edges. I believe my first image is better suited to be published than this one just because it looks a lot more professional and is directly trying to manipulate something.