A reportage photo should represent the feeling and atmosphere of the moment.
How exactly do you make a reportage photo?
If you go through the next three steps and think about three substantive
choices, I'm sure you'll come a long way.
Before you start, you first need to have a subject
today i chose the one and a half meter society as the main subject.
After that, you are ready to set forth with your camera equipment.
Once you're on the road you should take a good look at what you encounter
and try to capture your special situations in an image.
What you need to make a strong picture depends on what you want to show in the picture.
I have three more tips for you.
What do you need to take a good reportage photo?
Well, first of all you need a good camera.
Today I choose the Canon EOS M50 with a 15-45 millimetre
zoom lens and a 55-200 millimetre zoom lens.
And especially with that telephoto zoom lens it's very nice to be able to shoot close to
and close to your subject.
Of course you also need a good subject.
Today I choose to photograph the one and a half meter society.
Also make sure you bring enough batteries, because it
would be a shame if you miss an image at the moment suprême because your battery is empty.
You can also choose to bring a tripod and a flash unit
especially a flash unit is useful if you want to photograph in backlight.
Today I choose not take it with me and only bring my camera.
How do you choose a subject?
If you want to take a reportage photo, choosing the right subject is very important.
This is often quite challenging, because there are so many possibilities.
I therefore advise you to look for a subject that appeals to you.
Hey! Do you know if there is anything going on in The Hague right now that could be photographed?
Personally I do look at different sites to see what
is happening in terms of news or reportage. How do you choose your subject?
Your subject and the final image shouldn't be too complicated. Simplicity is an advantage. Less is always more.
The story in the photo should be clear at a glance.
Good reportage photo is often a news photo or a reportage
photo of socially important events or events with a meaning.
I think it is especially important that you take a photo with
a story you want to tell, which you feel good about.
What should you take into account? With the reportage photo?
People's privacy is very important.
Knowing that on the street and on public roads you can often just photograph people
, publish or use them for something else, is often a different story.
For this you need permission from the person in the photo.
And you can arrange that permission by means of a quitclaim form.
your equipment.
It is entirely up to you to choose which camera and which lens you want to use.
Today I choose to use the Canon EOS m50.
It's small, light weight and looks much less intimidating to people on the street.
Only use a tripod if you want to take a photo with a
slow shutter speed and blur free.
Dealing with people on the street, photographing people on the street is not always easy.
You will notice soon enough whether people want to be photographed or not. If people don't want to be photographed.
Then they will put their hands in front of their face.
Or they will turn away from you.
And then you already know, that's not going to be a good photo.
My working method is to photograph first and ask for permission afterwards.
Otherwise the moment is often already gone if you ask permission first.
What you need for the perfect reportage photo, depends on the story you want to tell your viewers.
And for that I have three more tips.
The story and the aesthetics.
For me personally, the story is more important than the aesthetics
in the photo, so form is subordinate to content.
Which of course is nice if you can bring form and content together in one good photo.
Then you really have a top snapshot.
Whether or not people are in your photo?
Personally I'm a real people photographer and I love photos with people in them.
But I can also imagine that the one and a half meter society
is also very well represented by emptiness and silence on the street. So use that emptiness.
Sometimes it helps to just stand somewhere for a few minutes,
ten minutes and just see what's passing by.
Tip 3: clichés. In this story,
In this case of the one-and-a-half meter society doesn't mind if you use clichés.
Think for example of mouth caps, ribbons, that's fine to use.
This only makes your story what you want to tell more clear
and that it is about the one and a half meter society in the corona crisis.
In this corona crisis I am allowed to use clichés myself
For example, I made a series of care workers
in hospitals where I also use the cliché of a mouthguard.
If you want to start reportage photography yourself, then follow these three steps. Step 1: choose a good subject.
Step 2: Choose your equipment and go on the road.
Step 3: Make a special image.
Think about my three tips in step 3. Tip 1: Aesthetics are secondary.
The story is more important than the form.
Tip 2: Think about whether you want people in the picture.
And tip 3: Don't be afraid of clichés.
So now ready to go on the road yourself.
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And I wish you all the best of luck and fun with photography. Put it on!