Photojournalism

Photojournalism can fall under all subjects of photography but the image needs to be news worthy to end up being published.

There are two types of photojournalism :
The first type is where an image is used to illustrate a story. Many feature journalists work closely with photographers and commission them to produce images that will be published with their articles. There is no limit to how many images can be used. This is usually the photo editors decision.

Abstrac photography

The invention of the camera liberated painting from its reportage role. Gone was the need to produce a likeness, detail the events of the story, painting was free to express emotions. True what had gone before contained an emotional content but now painting could experiment and through imaginative interpretation allow the emotional content to predominate.

As the 19th century evolved and throughout the 20th century painters from the impressionists through the cubists and expressionists to the minimalists could to use colour, line and form to go straight to the emotional content of their work. The representational aspect of the work become coincidental and was pushed to the point that it became akin to lying on the grass making shapes out of clouds. Enjoyable as it may be it is secondary to the nature of clouds.

The introduction of the digital darkroom has given this freedom to photographers. The range of tools to fix and enhance the camera’s capture when pushed to its extremes produces a range of fascinating effects. When added to the filters built into the better software, images can be produced that any comparison to the original photograph is purely coincidental.

Sony 85mm Lens - Review

Sony 85mm is not a standard lens. This lens is based on classic models which were popular among photographers because of their pictorial qualities and speed. The lens is able to offer consistent performance every time even when you are using different imaging ratios. The older models were popular for their sharpness but they were susceptible to flares and this is one of the aspects that have been changed in the Sony 85mm lens.

The Sony 85mm is coated and this has eliminated the flare issues that were present in the older models. The lens is designed for Sony DLSR cameras and it has a 127.5mm focal length in terms of 35mm film equivalent which is impressive for this kind of lens. It is a small lens but it has a solid build. There are nine aperture blades on this lens. The nine blades provide circular apertures and impressive out of focus blur. The close-focusing on this lens is limiting at 85cm and therefore you cannot use it to capture small objects and intricate details.