Don McCullin,
I found these images
while searching photojournalism in Google. I’ve posted these pictures because the
photographer has done an amazing job of capturing the emotion of the soldiers
which is best seen in the image at the top. We get the sense of fear from the
soldier by the way that he’s gripping the gun, The way his head has shrunk into
his shoulders, He’s very wide eyed and the way he’s hunched over half way to
the foetal position. These traits are emphasized by the way he’s framed the
photo by making the face the dominate feature of the top third of the photo and
the hands the dominant feature of the bottom section.
Even though I
probably won’t be taking photos of soldiers in this section, this bit of
research has taught me to try and get some of the models’ emotion or personality
into the photo, or an object that reflects that so there’s some meaning behind
the pictures I take.
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