Blink, and you might miss that flash
The specific area of photojournalism has been aided bounds and leaps with the new digital era.
For a journalist to get his/her photographs to the news room for print would have taken perhaps an hour or two in the past and say 30 years ago pre-digital photography era, there would have been an immense lag time in which the photos would need to be developed. However, in the present era, journalists/photographers have a wide range of media at their disposal shredding processing times to bits.
In particular, the digital camera has been more than a saviour for journalism as a whole.
Its history began in the 1960’s when the U.S. space program began enhancing images transmitted back to earth from unmanned probes. The 70’s saw the possibility of converting light into digital images, while the first electric photograph was taken in 1979 at the bottom of the ocean in a miniature submarine for National Geographic. In 1981 Sony launched its new Mavica non-film electronic camera and the technology flourished from then on with most households now owning a digital camera.
Click this link to find out more about the history of photo-journalism
Its introduction towards the late 80’s and early 90’s has changed the role and working practices of professional journalists as they are now able to supply pictures to the news room in a matter of seconds. A photograph can be taken and within the space of a minute, it can be uploaded onto a laptop and sent via email to the editor. Wi-fi internet access readily available at many public places nowadays has also cut times in half, meaning journalists do no have to go to libraries or news rooms to upload images; they could do it at a local Starbucks for all they like. This has revolutionised the way journalists work, with the same results being seen in different forms of media.
The mobile phone is now a tool with which journalists can not only write stories and send them to the news room, but they can also take high quality images on their mobile phones and upload them within seconds. This was the case in the London 7/7. bombings in 2005, as shown by this article. The mobile phone also allows anyone to in essence become a journalism - including students.
The same issue can be digested in terms of sharing media. Nowadays there is so much technology readily available to any Tom, Dick or Harry and this has seen the introduction of websites such as Flickr where users can upload their own photos and so the world can share and use these pictures without copyright law.
Similarly this has led to the rise of online journalism blogging with free websites such as Blogger where users can share their stories and pictures for free, with some even generating enough views to be made public. The blog's success is shared by City University teacher and technology analyst Bill Thompson in his article for the BBC.
It is plain to see that the camera, as with all forms of digital media are now in full force and the shere speed with which the industry is progressing is slightly scary. In the future, there really may not be any time to blink.
For a journalist to get his/her photographs to the news room for print would have taken perhaps an hour or two in the past and say 30 years ago pre-digital photography era, there would have been an immense lag time in which the photos would need to be developed. However, in the present era, journalists/photographers have a wide range of media at their disposal shredding processing times to bits.
In particular, the digital camera has been more than a saviour for journalism as a whole.
Its history began in the 1960’s when the U.S. space program began enhancing images transmitted back to earth from unmanned probes. The 70’s saw the possibility of converting light into digital images, while the first electric photograph was taken in 1979 at the bottom of the ocean in a miniature submarine for National Geographic. In 1981 Sony launched its new Mavica non-film electronic camera and the technology flourished from then on with most households now owning a digital camera.
Click this link to find out more about the history of photo-journalism
Its introduction towards the late 80’s and early 90’s has changed the role and working practices of professional journalists as they are now able to supply pictures to the news room in a matter of seconds. A photograph can be taken and within the space of a minute, it can be uploaded onto a laptop and sent via email to the editor. Wi-fi internet access readily available at many public places nowadays has also cut times in half, meaning journalists do no have to go to libraries or news rooms to upload images; they could do it at a local Starbucks for all they like. This has revolutionised the way journalists work, with the same results being seen in different forms of media.
The mobile phone is now a tool with which journalists can not only write stories and send them to the news room, but they can also take high quality images on their mobile phones and upload them within seconds. This was the case in the London 7/7. bombings in 2005, as shown by this article. The mobile phone also allows anyone to in essence become a journalism - including students.
The same issue can be digested in terms of sharing media. Nowadays there is so much technology readily available to any Tom, Dick or Harry and this has seen the introduction of websites such as Flickr where users can upload their own photos and so the world can share and use these pictures without copyright law.
Similarly this has led to the rise of online journalism blogging with free websites such as Blogger where users can share their stories and pictures for free, with some even generating enough views to be made public. The blog's success is shared by City University teacher and technology analyst Bill Thompson in his article for the BBC.
It is plain to see that the camera, as with all forms of digital media are now in full force and the shere speed with which the industry is progressing is slightly scary. In the future, there really may not be any time to blink.
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