If you are interested in photography, you shouldn’t miss the Boston Globe’s Big Picture. Just stick the RSS feed in your Google Reader and wait for the magic to show up. I’d suggest going over there now and looking through some of the archives, too.
Recently, The Big Picture just put up their 2008 In Photos. There is some absolutely amazing photojournalism there. Take a look:
2008 In Photos Part 1 of 3
2008 In Photos Part 2 of 3
2008 In Photos Part 3 of 3
Here are a couple of my favorites from the 2008 In Photos series that inspire me to become a better photographer:
(#31 from Part 2)
(#1 from Part 3)I can only dream having such a developed eye that I can see and capture those moments as they happen.
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Don’t you think a lot of it, almost all of it, is luck?
You certainly can’t take a picture of something if nothing is happening, but what makes these shots stand out is that the photographer was able to identify a moment in time, isolate it, frame it, and capture it in an indescribable way. Take that pictures of the little girl with all the people dressed in white bowing around her. The photographer (Sigit Pamungkas, I believe) saw that little girl standing still with all that movement around her…framed the shot so it was a red dress amongst a sea of white…and used a slow enough shutter speed to blur the movement while keeping the girl clear and sharp. What makes these photographers special is that they are able to find moments, before they happen, so that they are ready to capture it when it finally does.
Some photojournalism might be a simple case of “being there,” but to really capture a moment and convey it to the viewer takes an incredible eye.