My takes on Photojournalism.

  [Photo by: Martha Holmes, 1947.  https://www.life.com/photographer/martha-holmes/ ] Name: Martha Holmes Age: 83 Born: February 7, 1923 [Louisville, Kentucky] Died: September 19, 2006 [Manhattan] Martha Holmes was born in Louisville, on February 7, 1923 . Her father worked in public relations and her mother worked as a voice coach. She attended the University of Louisville for one year, before was hired as a Photo Lab Assistant at the Louisville Courier Journal.  he attended the University of Louisville for one year, before was hired as a Photo Lab Assistant at the Louisville Courier Journal. Two years later Life magazine notice Martha Holmes work on photography, so they recommend on hiring her for the cover of Kentucky Derby.  Martha Holmes struggles in the  male- dominated field because   she had to balance between fem ininity and professionalism for her appearance as a female photojournalist. With photojournalism, she takes pictures of well...

[Photo by Devin Allen, 2015-2020,  https://www.npr.org/sections/pictureshow/2023/01/16/1139546697/devin-allen-against-poverty-racism-discrimination ] Devin Allen uses his camera as a "weapon against poverty and racism", meaning for protest racial injustice. His first photo was taken place in Fenuron in 2014, which sparked by murder of a 25-year-old African American citizen, Freddie Gray, due to police brutality. His black and white pictures display the issues with police brutality and racial discrimination as he starts digging deeper to each photo that were taken by African American equality protest. According to Devin Allen’s article, protests were occurring through African American people who experience with police brutality, such as George Floyd; his shows when he reflects on stereotypes and show people how they manage to follow different path of protest and justice .   When I see those images as a photojournalist, Devin portrays the racial issues that African Ame...

Fully featured digital cameras were made in the Digital era and were called DSLR. DSLR is a digital single-lens reflex camera that combines the mechanism of a single lens reflex camera and optical viewfinder. According to Nasim Mansurov's article , he explains how the light passes through the lens into a reflex mirror to forward vertically to an optical element called Pentaprism . Once the mirror reflects to a pentaprism, it will convert the vertical light to horizontal by redirecting through two separate mirrors then into viewfinder. Mansurov states that “ the camera processor takes the information from the image sensor, converts it in to an appropriate format, then writes it to a memory card .”   Photo by: Digital Camera World Image Source:  https://www.digitalcameraworld.com/buying-guides/best-dslr-camera Year Created: 2023 Digital single-lens reflex cameras affect photojournalism is because of offer ing more control over their photography skills an...