PHOTOJOURNALISM

IAN BENEDICT A. ROXAS | SCHOOL PAPER ADVISER

ALLEN RAFAEL J. OCAMPO | PHOTOJOURNALIST

THE COCONUT
QUEZON NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
|IT CAN BE A MAN
PILING UP BRICKS.
|IT CAN BE A GIRL RUNNING.
|IT CAN BE A CARPENTER PUTTING
UP A BUILDING.
| IT CAN BE A BOY TAKING A BATH.
|IT CAN BE JANITORS CLEANING
UP THE STAIRS.
| NEIGHBORHOOD LINING UP
TO THROW THEIR GARBAGE
|IT CAN BE TWO LITTLE BOYS
JOKING AROUND.
| IT CAN BE A GRANDFATHER
CARRYING HIS
GRANDDAUGHTER.
| IT CAN BE A
GRANDMOTHER WAITING
FOR SOMEONE TO ARRIVE.
| IT CAN BE AN OLD WOMAN
AND A MAN SEWING.
PHOTOJOURNALISM is defined as a
medium of communication that uses a
universal visual language to convey
facts and information in an honest
visual report of what happened right in
front of the lens.
Telling a story with a picture, reporting
with a camera, recording a moment in
time, the fleeting instant moment when
an image sum up the story – the decisive
moment.
PHOTOJOURNALISM isn’t just a spot
news picture on the Donald Trump –
Rodrigo Duterte meeting.

Datelines don’t just change the quality

of the picture. It is also local town
council meeting where members are
arguing about the tax increase.
It’s not just a national magazine cover picture
showing the key play from the UAAP
championship game between La Salle Green
Archers and Ateneo Blue Eagles. It’s also the
local high school team anywhere in the
country, playing for the town’s glory.
Photographers covering the
president of the Philippines or the
Mayor of the small town have the
same mission – to make an a
accurate reporting of the subject
activities.
Photographers covering the effect of
climate change that led to people’s death
or the overflowing river in your locality
which cause family members to be
displaced have the same mission – to
convey the enormity of the events in
human terms.
THE HUMAN INTEREST COMPONENT
PROMINENCE | INVOLVING THE WELL KNOWN.
CONSEQUENCE | EVENTS THAT AFFECT PEOPLE.
BIZAARE | THE CURIOUS, THE UNUSUAL,
AND THE AMAZING.
CONFLICT | A CLASH BETWEEN
AND AMONG PEOPLE.
TIMELESS | A CURRENT SITUATION.
HOW TO TAKE PHOTOS
HAVING TECHNICAL AND
EDITORIAL VALUES?
COMPOSITION

AN EMOTIVE WORD TO PHOTOJOURNALIST

ON HOW TO TAKE A SUBJECT USING
IMPORTANT ELEMENTS.
LINE
THE FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENT
OF COMPOSITION.
STRAIGHT VERTICAL LINE
SUGGESTS POWER, STRENGHT,
RIGIDITY, HEIGHT, AND DEPTH.
HORIZONTAL LINE
SUGGESTS CALMNESS,
PASSIVITY, BREADTH, WEIGHT,
FINALITY, AND DISTANCE.
CURVE LINE
SUGGESTS GRACE, BEAUTY,
LOVE, AND NATURE.
SHAPE
CIRCLE, TRIANGLE, AND
RECTANGLE ARE SHAPES THAT
USUALLY REPRESENT THREE
DIMENSIONAL ELEMENTS.
CAPTIONING
 Newspaper captions are frequently no more
LINKING CAPTION TO THE STORY
than a line or two in length.

Sometimes the picture’s position on the page

and the layout of the text around it indicates
the story to which it refers.

A caption should be adjacent to the picture

where it can be found quickly by a reader.
The first few words of a caption are like introductory paragraph of a story
- they have to attract the interest of the reader.

Caption should form a link between the readers and the event shown in
the picture. It tells another thing than only the pictures.
 Captions are best written in the present tense- using the past tense
reduces the immediacy of the picture.
 Verbs should be active rather than passive.
Avoid using: our picture shows, pictured yesterday, shares a joke.
PHOTOJOURNALISM = PHOTO + CAPTION
ENGLISH: Must begin with either WHAT or WHO

Example: GEARED-UP. (Catchline) Jenelyn Mercado, 25, joins

hundred of school paper advisers in honing their skills in campus
papering at Davao City Elementary School, Davao City on August
4.
PHOTOJOURNALISM = PHOTO + CAPTION
FILIPINO: MUST BEGIN IN VERB (PANDIWA)

Example: Dinaluhan ni Jenelyn Mercado, 25, ang pagtitipon ng

mga school paper adviser upang sanayin ang sarili sa paggawa ng
pahayagang pang-mag-aaral sa Davao Elementary School, Davao
City, Agosto 4. Larawang kuha ni Albert Hizon
PHOTOJOURNALISM = PHOTO + CAPTION
KAMPYON ULIT! Nakuhang muli ni Reymond delos
Santos ang unang pwesto sa Editorial Cartooning-Filipino
sa National Schools Press Conference na ginanap sa
Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Abril 12.
Larawang kuha ni Ronnabel Gonzales
SAMPLE PHOTOS
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