Photography
Cameras, photos, images
30 articles tagged photography, drawn from across the archive.
A Guide to Trove for Journalists
Trove is the National Library of Australia's digital research service. It is free, it is enormous, and it is the single most...
Article-how long
Like you, students often ask me impossible questions. What is the length of an article? How long should I research it? How long...
Byline
You failed to insert your byline. Don't rely on your editor to remember to insert it. Your editor may even think you don't want...
Cameras for Journalists
Cameras 'What kind of camera should I buy?' Students ask me this frequently. I answer the question with a question: how good are...
Copyright: A Simple Guide
Copyright: a simple guide Copyright should become clearer during the course. Essentially copyright is the author's ownership in...
Email - photos
Submitting photographs by email. This is the modern, fast, efficient and cheap method, and is preferred by most publications. It...
Equipment Every Journalist Must Have
My equipment Equipment Mobile phone Message service on mobile Phone camera A quality digital camera Dictionary Thesaurus You must...
How to Crop Photos
You ask about 'cropping'. Cropping is the cutting-off of one or more sides of a photograph, either when printing it, or preparing...
How to Send Photos to Editors
The BEST way to send photos is to use a $2000 topline digital camera, and email your photos with your emailed article. This is...
How to Store Your Photos
The BEST way to store photos is to use a digital camera, and store your photos on computer disks. This is the 21st century and...
Names - not real
I notice you have noted that the names you use are not real names. To an editor this means you, the writer, have failed to...
Outdoors Websites
Reprinted with permission of 'The Sydney Morning Herald' Camping: Are we there yet? Happy campers: take a caravan and you can...
People in Stories: The Most Important Lesson
People The secret of creating your SALEABLE articles By SIMON TOWNSEND, Senior Tutor THIS IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT FACTSHEET...
Photo Books
Photography books: I have no favorites. I've never seen a bad one, only that some are better than others. But new and better ones...
Photo Libraries
Photo libraries. The way they work is fairly simple. They accept good photographs from photographers. They sell 'usage rights' to...
Photos and Transparencies
You ask about transparencies. A transparency is a photo you hold up to the light, so light from behind allows you to view it. You...
Photos free and cheap
Photos: free or cheap, to illustrate your articles From the internet: reprinted with permission iStockphoto is the internet's...
Plastic
Please send only sheets of paper, not any plastic stuff. Plastic! Cardboard! Some new freelancers make the mistake of using...
Pseudonyms
I advise against fake names Regarding pen names or pseudonyms . . . I strongly recommend against the idea of you using a fake...
Reversing and Flipping Photos
Reverse and flip means printing the photograph backwards (reversing it). Or printing it backwards and upside down. The viewer...
Staple A4 size
Zz You MUST, please, present your work neatly and impressively, Zz. Whether you're sending material to me, an experienced editor...
The Best Kind of Photos
You've asked about the best kind of photographs. I suppose the best photographs are the ones that editors will buy and publish...
The Model Release Form
A 'model release form' can be any set of words you make up that clearly expresses an agreement between you and the 'model'...
The NFSA: Australia's National Treasure for Journalists
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, the NFSA, is a working archive. It is also one of the most under-used research...
The Walkley Awards
The Walkley Awards are Australian journalism's most prestigious honours. They were founded in 1956 by Sir William Gaston Walkley...
Traineeship Guidelines
Reprinted with permission from The Sydney Morning Herald website Fairfax editorial traineeships John Fairfax Ltd offers graduate...
Travel reporter Part 1
How to land a job as an on-camera reporter on a travel show Part 1 As I said in my letter to you?. my students all say they would...
When to Use Italics
Italics Italic type slopes to the right, like this. As opposed to these words which are in bold. These words are in 'regular'. If...
When You Don't Want to Take Photos
I suspect - from what you're saying - that you'd rather concentrate on writing and not worry too much about photography. That's...
Wise advice
Wise Advice Pin This Up Somewhere You'Ll See It !! When you've finished writing, check your article for logic, facts, syntax...