Preferred Targets for Photojournalists
Preferred targets for photojournalists
Reuters recently published his best photographs of the year 95, a compilation, interesting as always, allowing looking back and retrieving bits of memory. The images can be viewed intact and your photo caption in the previous link also reproduced in these exciting video highlights of the year.
However, besides this evocative value of photographs, I have found it of great interest that the agency has also published the details of all the photo sessions that let you know the details exit, i.e. camera objective, ISO sensitivity, speed, etc. Being a relatively high number of images, almost 100, the data is almost a statistical value and let us know some things for sure about the work of an international agency reporter's science.
For example, regardless of the brand of the camera used can simply be due to a company policy (the choice is Canon 88 of 95 pictures), it is very instructive to see, for example, what optics are chosen by photojournalists. When they work with zoom lenses preferences are clearly polarized. In 53% of cases choose a 16-35 mm while in another 38% the goal is relieved 70-200 mm. That is, between the two accounting for 91% of the optical zoom used in the photographs taken during the year.
In the case of fixed optics is more dispersed, but three focal concentrate 50% of fixed focal length lenses used. These are: 24 mm, 50 mm and 16 mm.
Looking to aspiring photojournalists, this is certainly useful information in order to know what optics should aspire to acquire to get into its job.
Moreover, a look at the triangle of exposure, i.e., the combination of speed, aperture and ISO value is also very revealing.
The most significant part of the year the photographs were selected by Reuters aft runs 2.8 (29%), f4 (10%) were the next most commonly used followed by opening f 1.4 (9%). As to the ISO sensitivity, the four values were used, in order, 200 (17%), 400 (13%), 800 (13%) and 1.600 (10%). Finally, information about shutter speeds were told that 1/320 (12%), 1/250 (9%) and 1/800 (6%) most frequently selected settings.
Combining these three pieces of information, openness, sensitivity and speed, we can deduce that apparently the photojournalist is often in low light conditions and tries to work using only available light, leading to you to choose bright optical and better sensitivity ISO of your sensor. In addition, the sharpness of the raw footage using relatively high shutter speeds even if it means sacrificing a bit of quality and lives with higher noise levels.
In the chart below you can see the detail of the data.
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Reuters recently published his best photographs of the year 95, a compilation, interesting as always, allowing looking back and retrieving bits of memory. The images can be viewed intact and your photo caption in the previous link also reproduced in these exciting video highlights of the year.
However, besides this evocative value of photographs, I have found it of great interest that the agency has also published the details of all the photo sessions that let you know the details exit, i.e. camera objective, ISO sensitivity, speed, etc. Being a relatively high number of images, almost 100, the data is almost a statistical value and let us know some things for sure about the work of an international agency reporter's science.
For example, regardless of the brand of the camera used can simply be due to a company policy (the choice is Canon 88 of 95 pictures), it is very instructive to see, for example, what optics are chosen by photojournalists. When they work with zoom lenses preferences are clearly polarized. In 53% of cases choose a 16-35 mm while in another 38% the goal is relieved 70-200 mm. That is, between the two accounting for 91% of the optical zoom used in the photographs taken during the year.
In the case of fixed optics is more dispersed, but three focal concentrate 50% of fixed focal length lenses used. These are: 24 mm, 50 mm and 16 mm.
Looking to aspiring photojournalists, this is certainly useful information in order to know what optics should aspire to acquire to get into its job.
Moreover, a look at the triangle of exposure, i.e., the combination of speed, aperture and ISO value is also very revealing.
The most significant part of the year the photographs were selected by Reuters aft runs 2.8 (29%), f4 (10%) were the next most commonly used followed by opening f 1.4 (9%). As to the ISO sensitivity, the four values were used, in order, 200 (17%), 400 (13%), 800 (13%) and 1.600 (10%). Finally, information about shutter speeds were told that 1/320 (12%), 1/250 (9%) and 1/800 (6%) most frequently selected settings.
Combining these three pieces of information, openness, sensitivity and speed, we can deduce that apparently the photojournalist is often in low light conditions and tries to work using only available light, leading to you to choose bright optical and better sensitivity ISO of your sensor. In addition, the sharpness of the raw footage using relatively high shutter speeds even if it means sacrificing a bit of quality and lives with higher noise levels.
In the chart below you can see the detail of the data.
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