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Day 2:

How to Shoot a News Event

© Copyright NMSU Board of Regents 2004New Mexico State University is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and educator. NMSU and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating.http://cahe.nmsu.edu/4h/photography

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What is News? • “New information about specific and timely event.”

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Spot News • News that just happened or continues to unfold as the reporter watches.

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Feature News • Feature news is about a topic or news event that already took place, which bears more explanation.

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Impact, Interest

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Preparing to Shoot

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Go early ifpossible

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Batteries? Disk space? Be prepared to shoot a lot of photographs. Be sure you have fresh batteries and adequate disk space to store your photos. It’s always better to have several photos to choose from. Best

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Getting Access

Ask before the event.

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Covering the event

Be invisible to others.

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Fill the Frame

Get closer.

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Think About the Foreground Having something in the foreground, such as the top rails of this fence, helps frame the subjects.

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Mind the Background

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Room to Run

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Leading Lines A road, a log, a valley, or in this case, a rope, all can lead into the photo from the foreground to a point of interest.

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Rule of Thirds

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Vertical or Horizontal?

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Try a Different

Perspective

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Editing in the Field

Save

Delete

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Did you get theshot?

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