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    The Secrets of Better PR and Editorial Photography
    The Secrets of Better PR and Editorial Photography
    The Secrets of Better PR and Editorial Photography
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    The Secrets of Better PR and Editorial Photography

    By Steve Nichols

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    "The Secrets of Better PR and Editorial Photography" is a brand new resource manual that shows you the secrets of how to set photographs up, how to handle individuals and groups shots and how to make your images more interesting. It looks at how you can use props to make your images come alive and shows you techniques to let you handle people shots, groups, portraits, event shots, presentations and much more. If ever you've looked at the press/editorial photographs you've taken and thought "how could I make them better?" this book is for you.

    "The Secrets of Better PR and Editorial Photography" is available in both print and ePub (iPad) formats.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateMar 8, 2012
    ISBN9781471095009
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      The Secrets of Better PR and Editorial Photography - Steve Nichols

      himself.

      About the author

      Steve Nichols runs InfoTech Communications, which produces magazines, newsletters and electronic communications for businesses.

      He also acts as a freelance photographer and his assignments have included traveling to Florida to cover a Space Shuttle launch, Seattle to cover the design of a new supersonic airliner and to Singapore and Dubai to photograph top airline executives.

      He has also run in-house digital photography courses for a wide range of companies in the UK including Standard Life, Novartis, Astra Zeneca, Diageo, Halifax Building Society, Herts County Council, Aviva and others

      Introduction

      Hi, and welcome to The Secrets of Better PR and Editorial Photography. This manual was written as the result of running more than 100 courses for people just like you - PR professionals and other communicators who have to take photographs as part of their jobs.

      With the rise of digital cameras and the intranet, many of you have found that you now have to take your own pix.

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      This can scare the living daylights out of the best of us, but with a little help you can turn the mundane into the marvelous.

      There is no magic involved in taking better PR and editorial photographs, but a methodical approach and lots of planning are the key to better results.

      On the one and two-day courses I show that the best photographs are the result of a thought-process that starts before you even meet the person or people you are photographing.

      Thinking about the actual story, coming up with idea, choosing suitable props and making sure your camera is set up properly before you start will seriously increase your chances of a good result.

      But let’s not hang about, just dive straight in and find out how you can produce great images – just like the one above!

      Steve Nichols, InfoTech Communications

      Why PR and Editorial Photography is different

      Anyone can take photographs - can’t they? Isn’t it as simple as pointing and shooting? Well, no it isn’t, as a glance through any daily newspaper will show.

      Most corporates need a good supply of strong imagery for their own in-house newspapers, magazines and corporate intranets. And if you want your local, national or trade media to use your images to support your press releases you are going to have to give them a little more than a simple snap.

      What you will need is a compelling image that focuses the eye on the detail you want, with no extraneous rubbish. Oh, and its got to be sharp, well-exposed and of sufficient quality to be printed as a full-bleed A4 front cover too – phew!

      No wonder most people call in a professional photographer.

      But if you can master the basics of operating a digital camera you are well under way to producing printable results.

      So here we go with the secrets.

      Before setting off

      Make sure you have set up your camera properly, that you have charged the batteries, that the resolution is set correctly, the lens is clean and that you have enough storage space on the memory card.

      On many of the courses I have run it is always apparent that a large percentage of the delegates have no idea how to set up their cameras.

      That is, they don’t know how to set up the number of effective pixels or image size, how to delete images from an image card or how to switch their flash guns on and off.

      Now I will be the first to admit that most camera handbooks are rubbish, but if you don’t understand your camera how are you going to get the best out of it?

      The only way to get over this particular hurdle is to spend an afternoon or so going through the manual with the camera to find out what all the buttons do.

      Batteries - the charge of the light brigade

      The most important part of your digital camera are the batteries or increasingly battery (singular). If you don’t believe me try using a digicam without one! You may think batteries are boring, but a little understanding goes a long way to making life easier.

      Rechargeable batteries come in three basic flavours: Nickel-Cadmium (Ni-Cd), Nickel-Metal Hydride (Ni-Mh) and Lithium Ion (Li-ion).

      Nickel-Cadmium (Ni-Cd) is the oldest technology in the group, is the cheapest, but does have its problems. The biggest is the so-called memory effect.

      This is when a battery is continually part discharged and then charged again. Over time it develops a memory for this part-discharged capacity and becomes virtually useless.

      The trick is to regularly deep discharge Ni-Cd cells before giving them a full charge.

      This is difficult with cameras as they tend to shut down before the battery is flat.

      The solution is a battery charger/tester/conditioner

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