Working in the Digital Age Matthew Jones

Working in the Digital

Online Newspapers are extremely popular in today’s society. They are so big that they have taken over printed work. The viewers just prefer to read the stories and look at the picture online for free rather than subscribe to a local paper and look through the pages. With online newspapers you can present visuals in various of ways. For instances you can include videos and hyperlinks online which you can’t really do when it’s in print.

Well as I have said before online papers have taken over from printed newspapers because they offer so many options while you’re reading the stories. Online Newspapers are based on and collected by social media e.g.: Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and even Snapchat.  Photojournalists can upload a post within seconds so the viewers online can view it rather waiting till the following day. With technology constantly improve in today’s world be a Photojournalist can be easier because you have the ability to take pictures and upload them to your internet within seconds.

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Comparing this to Photogravure is such a difference because for a Photogravure you had to carry all of your work in hand whereas all of your work for newspapers are online where they are secure. I feel like you couldn’t edit pictures with a Photogravure back then but you could differently edit pictures online so they stand out more and look better to view.

In content six, Demotix: Inventing a New Marketplace. It shows that publishing work is just as easy as pushing a button. It goes through all of the steps for when you take the picture. You can then title it and publish it online for everyone to see, this process can be completed within five minutes.  Reading that article was mind-blowing because in our last module we rea

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d about what it was like in the past. Especially were in content four we got to see the process of wet plate collodion process by Matthew Brady and Roger Fenton. We saw how long the process was to create an image.

 The next source that I enjoyed watching was from Jason Bacho would spoke about how technology is allowing smaller devices to contain a lot of sensors that enable us to get a better picture.  Jason showed the viewers on how a small camera that is attached to a drone can be connected to the internet so its live streamed. Think back to module four when Margaret Bourke White spoke about the challenges he faced when trying to capture the right picture. Margaret didn’t have the technology that we have today, he had to get up really close to the scene.