My take on photojournalism

Homai Vyarawalla who was born in the year 1913 is now known to be India’s first female photojournalist. She was born into a family that worked at a travelling theatre hence why she ended up travelling the majority of her life before finally settled down in a city named Mumbai in India. A couple years later she went to college and got married to a man named Manekshaw Vyarawalla who during that time was working at the Times of India. His love for photography is what encouraged her love for love for photography as well. Homai’s career lasted between the years 1930 and 1970, where she did numerous work under her husband’s name because she was a woman before slowly emerging and being more independent. She captured various images which included significant meetings as well as the world war. In the year 1970, Homai retired after losing interest in photography due to the death of her husband in the year 1969. She moved with her son who unfortunately died 10 years later. Homani later died in...

(All images from the image section on the timeline creator used for this assignment Lucidchard.com ) The civil war The civil war took place in the year 1861. While various techniques such as dry plate as well as wet plate techniques were created long before the ar, it was used by various people and just photojournalists. The civil war, however, marked a moment in history when photojournalists became acknowledged from their various pictures taken during the war which was later published. This was the known beginning of photojournalism. The pictures taken by the photojournalists at the war was shared with people all over through newspapers. It left people speechless to witness what was going on out in the battle. Photogravure A photogravure is a mechanical process that involves coating a copper plate with gelatin tissue, and then etching, which produces a photograph like print. It was developed in the year 1852, however, became more known in the year 1878. It w...

      As the years go by, there is a constant update in technology. This is what resulted in the creation of multimedia as well as an online newspaper. An online newspaper is basically an online version of a newspaper. With the constant use of telephones as well as the internet, toward the later 1900s, online newspapers were created. For photojournalists, this meant being able to share their images not only in a physical paper but an online version as well.         With the creation of online newspapers came the use of multimedia. Multimedia could vary from texts, audio files, GIF’s or images. According to Caleb Cox’s article 20 years of GSM digital mobile phones,  Nokia 1011 was subsequently the first compatible handset to go into mass production. This phone was capable of sending text messages which assisted in the communication of photojournalism from different people. In regards to GIFs, The GIF, Fernando Alfonso III wrote in The animated h...

  Photo by: Timothy H. O'Sullivan Year Created: 1863 Rule of thirds The photographer placed the main subject in the center of the image which is the first thing the audience notices followed by the other bodies behind. The main subject is horrible but the other bodies show the audience just how terrifying the whole event must have been. Depth of field The right amount of area which is the field is most definitely in focus and it takes up more than half of the image before it transitions into the sky. The photo shows the shallow depth of field because it is obvious that the much bigger however the photographer could not take it all in one shot. The obvious main subject,  The man subject is much bigger than those in the background but not too big that all the attention is solely on it. If certain images were taken out such as the bodies in the background then the severity of what emotion of fear and severity of what occurred will be gone. Why ...