Practical Photojournalism: A Professional Guide

Sitting all the way here In Karachi-Pakistan I have just finished the chapter on Sports of this book beside a quick skim through the book. My daughter flew in this morning from DC and carried this book adding to the resources I useFor my undergrad class teaching Photojournalism. An excellent resource and reference for Photojournalism classrooms. The language is easy for ESL students and covers almost every aspect of photojournalism that anyone need to know before hitting the fields. I specially appreciate the content on Cricket in the sports section and Fashion both of these genre are very important among Pakistan news journalists however the references I have been using to teach did not have anything on these topic. I am using the chapter on Sports in my class next week. Also wondering how this book can be available for purchase in Pakistan locally for use in journalism classrooms. I wish I can prescribe it as a course book for my next semester class.

It looks good. I am sending it to my grandson so I do not have his opinion yet.

Great book!

This is a great book if you know nothing about cameras and lenses, as well as photographic accessories and processes. The first 100 pages of the book are dedicated to this type of information. Useless to me. I already know this info. The next 80 or so pages address the types of work you can try out: Sports, nature, the royals... and then it tells you about travel issues like documentation, driving, air travel, electricity... Really? Oh yes, and don't for get to fill the frame and watch out for your background. There is very little here of substance. It is a 'lite' version of all the points the author chooses to make. I was looking for information about what editors look for, how to get a foot in the door, publishing, where to find information about different publications. Possibly about sources for grants for projects. Information I think of as having substance. I am very disappointed.

Too much of the book was technical information about cameras, lenses,etc. Some of the more practical stuff was about working in the UK.