The most immediate thing I found is, pictures are everywhere and basically they penetrates your magazines with all those glossy page of advertisements. Pictures, are around us. But how could something we take for granted will be as a part of journalism? Well, basically, the function of a picture is to document a moment or an object. No matter it is being used as billboards or news clip, they have the same purpose.
And throughout history from cave carvings to stained glasses in churches, they are all being used to learn about something, to be observed through our eyes. Since the advent of photography, more of these kind of pictures are blooming, especially for newspaper where in the past they were in plain text, and thanks to the invention of camera, they no longer needed to paint drawings themselves. They will get the picture with just a snap.
Powerful pictures can blew people's mind, like the famous Afghan Girl from Steve McCurry:
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No one exactly knows when should he/she take a picture in the right moment, and this really depends on either that person's experience, and most of all, luck. If something doesn't happen at all, you won't even have a chance to take that picture.
In the 90s, as technology grows and develop as fast as a bullet train, there is photo-manipulation, edits. Sometimes these images has such an impact to the audience. But sometimes they distort our perspective to certain matters, one of them is self-esteem.
Bruce gave us an example of how ridiculous can a girl put on make-up, had her photo taken, put it into Photoshop, and turned out into a completely "optimised" and modified version of the girl.
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It was an awe-inspiring lesson. Beside my past knowledge about photography, I think I've picked up a few tips from Bruce and hopefully I will be able to apply it to my photographic skills in the near future!
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