Toronto Star Master Glass: How to take photos of people who have to be unidentifiable
In this Toronto Star video series on photojournalism, Tara Walton uses silhouettes, detail shots, and selective focus to create compelling images when her subject cannot be identified.
In the newsgathering business, photographers must shoot in all types of lighting conditions, and often have only moments to capture the best possible shot. It requires skill and experience and knowing photography and lenses like the back of your hand. In this “Master Glass” series, Toronto Star photographers reveal how they do it: the settings, the angles, the lenses, the approach.
Here, photographer Tara Walton uses silhouettes, detail shots, and selective focus to create compelling images when her subject cannot be identified.
Video courtesy of the Toronto Star, where this photojournalism series was originally published. See additional videos here: http://www.thestar.com/photos/masterglass.html.
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Tamara Baluja is an award-winning journalist with CBC Vancouver and the 2018 Michener-Deacon fellow for journalism education. She was the associate editor for J-Source from 2013-2014.