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Documentary Photography!!

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Think of Documentary photography.

Usually refered to as a popular form of photography to chronicle events or environments both significant and relevant to history, including social events as well as normal everyday activity records. Dont mistake this for photojournalism. Both are commercially viable field work careers, with significant varying differences. Ok whats photojournalism then?

Photojournalism.

Photojournalism is a profession involving the use of photos to illustrate news or evidence base incident or events. Photojournalist captures images in a fashion that it is capable of making viewers understand pictorial details of particular incident or an accident. Photojournalist, capturing the scenic occurrence for reportage in a perfect manner is often herculin task, requiring lots of patience rapt attention, and experience to handle the situation in the best possible way.

Photojournalist must capture images in a manner that provide supportive line to the news media platform or circumstance prevalence.

Documentary Photography, refers to a form of photography used to represent events, activities, surrounding and environments which are more relevant to history or heritage historical events.

Documentary photography includes the day to day life events coverage related to futuristic memoir expressing historical journalism. Documentary photographs are often filed and kept for future references, its more or less a trend now to display them in museums, gallery and art house. Most fetching handsome cash unbeliveably.

Photojournalism images focus on the short term audience involvement, whereas as documentary photography images are stored for long-term repetitive usage.

The photojournalism pictures are published once in the newspapers, TV media, etc and achived, theyre are used only in short term. However, documentary images are stored for future usage, historical display, including gallery sales, and most becoming arts collectable items for art lovers.

These images literally tell history or the past. Closely Photojournalism and Documentary photography are interrelated, Nowadays both professions now infuse their hand work into the art market, competing favourably with professional hand crafted drawing artists.

It takes a lot of effort and practise to become a revenue photojournalist, requiring simple but precision driven task . It requires lots of patience and experience to handle most tough situations. Either ways photojournalists dont often have the best of comfortable position to capture scenes, they have to make use of varying situations and circumstance possibly to capture their pictures and scenes.

Becoming a good documentary photographer, apart from the skill or talents with persevering patience. You need a lot of tools to enhance your ability to make a living from that career.
Even if its a hobby, it will certainly take a lot of your natural and physical resources.

However, in this age where the best camera phones can compete with the standalone cameras we once relied on so much, choosing a phone with a top-notch camera is a smart choice. So much can be done with modern time sophisticated smartphones.

So whether your a professional photographer or an amateur hobbist, needing to be photo ready at any given time or a designer who just wanted to boost your skills then it makes sense to grab the best camera phone you can afford; its equally a nice starting point.

Google Pixel 3 is a very useful asset for an amateur to kick start a career. It's a smartphone with an incredible main sensor and superb software.

Other things you may required starting off in documentary journalism includes but not limited.
-softbox
-Tripod
-Lightning
-Backdrop
-Props
-Camera/phone bag.
-Possibly smal studio space.


Make no mistake this is not a "how to start photography tutorial" its just igniting the passion or flame in you if you have once considered a journey in that field or have a natural talent for photography.

Need help starting up in documentary photography? You can register for a 6weeks short course at "Wemtonbusiness School. 2, Adeoti Street, off Akowonjo road Egbeda. Lagos
Tell: 2348098606255.