research assignment

2011 New Zealand earth quake

This image is of a bus which has been crushed by falling debris off a building. Some of the techniques the photo journalist has used to capture this disastrous scene is that they used the bus as and the debris as main feature to fill almost the whole frame, they also have gotten on a higher angle with a wide angle lens to get more in the shot and you can tell they have used a smaller aperture to capture everything in the shot as well.

Photograph by Martin Hunter, Getty Images

This image is of the “Pyne Gould Guines” building which was the most worst suffered building from the quake. In this shot the photographer has used people as a scale to represent the magnitude of what happened, the photographer would of most likely used a wide angle lens to capture everything in the shot. He used this angle because it would be the best way to show the slant of the 4 story building all flatten out.

Photograph by Mark Mitchell, New Zealand Herald/AP

This image is a of person being cared for while they are lying down on the on the street with people moving around them clearing the wreckage from the fallen down homes. The photographer has used a wide lens with a small aperture to capture the people on the ground in the front and the people in the back, he has captures the desperate and panic look the people are giving off well, but I think the image could have had more of a impact in the arrow in the right corner wasn’t in frame.