Photocommunication Across Media / COLLINS, ROSS.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

COLLINS, ROSS, author.

Greenwood, Keith, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Routledge, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Photocommunication Across Media is a must-have for aspiring mass media professionals who are striving to compete in the new landscape of convergence journalism and media. You will learn principles of photography both still and video and how to incorporate them into your storytelling. That’s no longer a specialty skill—in today’s world of media, it’s a necessity. Editors Ross Collins and Keith Greenwood collaborate with highly accomplished photographers to make the concepts and techniques of today’s mass media photography accessible to all readers. Photocommunication Across Media speaks directly to journalists, advertisers and professional communicators who want to round out their toolkit without sifting through dense texts meant specifically for photographers and photojournalists. This guide, edited by experts who teach these concepts to the next generation of media professionals, is everything you need to know—and nothing you don’t—to take the next step for your career in communication.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

About the Contributors

Introduction: Photocommunication Today

Chapter 1: Basic Photographic Principles for Communication Photographers

Sidebar 1.1: What Is Wide Angle? Telephoto?

Sidebar 1.2: Stabilized Lenses

Chapter 2: Using Today's Equipment: DSLRs, Hybrid/Bridge Cameras, Snapshot Cameras, and Smartphones

Sidebar 2.1: Sensor Sizes and Crop Factors

Chapter 3: Lighting for Photocommunicators: Natural and Artificial for Print and Online

Chapter 4: Editing for Still and Video

Chapter 5: Beyond the Still: Early Cinema and the Fundamentals of Video Storytelling

Chapter 6: Photocommunication, the Internet, and Social Media

Sidebar 6.1: Domain, or Not to Domain?

Sidebar 6.2: Not All Pixels Are the Same

Chapter 7: Law and Ethics for Today's Photocommunication

Sidebar 7.1: Are the Rules the Same Everywhere?

Sidebar 7.2: Beware Putting Someone in False Light

Sidebar 7.3: Model Releases

Sidebar 7.4: Codes of Ethics

Chapter 8: Pix for All: How Photography Grew from Elite Profession to Everyday Obsession

Chapter 9: Epilogue: My Story: What Photocommunicators Do Today

Index.

Notes:

Online resource; Title from title page (viewed October 24, 2017)

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781317288480

1317288483

OCLC:

1011524766