How To Shoot Reportage, The Manual

16 December 2010 49 Comments

How To Shoot A Reportage, Enzo Dal Verme

The 2nd edition of my photography manual is now available in PDF

After spending over a decade traveling all around the world, I felt it was time to reveal some tricks of the trade.

My manual “How To Shoot Reportage” covers a variety of topics designed to help photographers to create impactful images with an eye to the publishing market.

Inside you will find:

  • How to spot a hot subject
  • How to find an appropriate angle for rendering it
  • How to organize a very intense shooting trip
  • Pre-production research
  • Networking and making contacts online
  • What to include in your luggage
  • Technical equipment
  • How to schedule your shootings
  • How to line up the pictures taken day by day
  • How to manage local contacts
  • Mistakes that can be avoided
  • What and how to shoot
  • What’s essential to include in your reportage
  • Composition
  • Light
  • Night pictures
  • Exposure
  • Exposure Bracketing
  • The Motion Blur technique
  • The Panning technique
  • The Slow Sync Flash technique
  • The Fill Flash technique
  • The model release
  • How to conduct an interview
  • Postproduction
  • Info file, copyright, file naming
  • Retouching the pictures
  • Texts and captions
  • How to deliver your work as a pro
  • Behind-the-scenes episodes

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How To Shoot Reportage

brutally practical tips and tricks for anyone who is serious about reportage photography

127 pages of shooting strategies made clear in behind-the-scenes episodes illustrated with pictures from my archive.

“How To Shoot Reportage” is designed to help professional photographers and inspire photography novices who want to learn how to get the most out of a shooting trip.

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PDF edition € 8.59
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(second edition revised
and improved: 127 pages)

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Some reviews of How To Shoot A Reportage:

“This book is a must read for all the photography enthusiasts”
AdvancedPhotography.net

“The book is simple and straight to the point.”
RadiantLite.com

“How To Shoot A Reportage” is an excellent eBook.”
LearningTheLight.com

“This is one of the most complete walk books I’ve seen on how to shoot reportage. Very thorough in its content it details logistics, technique and information only a seasoned professional would know. Well worth a read and an eye opener no matter what your photographic interest. Much of the knowledge provided is something that can be applied to any specialty and might just change how you work through your next shoot.”
JMG-galleries.com

“How to Shoot a Reportage has great advice for aspiring traveling photojournalists. Since this is an e-book, it is nice that links to more information is provided within the context of the content.
RwongPhoto.com

“I found inside it many of my thoughts and problems that I am facing (and ways around them) during my trips… therefore I strongly recommend it!”
ThanasisPapadopulos.blogspot.com

“I would recommend this book to anyone interested in producing a reportage.”
AspirationImages.com

“This electronic book fills its promise well. Its direct and concise style divulges advice at a rapid pace while covering all aspects of building a reportage.”
Neocamera.com

“It’s a remarkably low price for such a wealth of information.”
zwcx.com

“The information contained in this book could save you thousands of dollars. He zooms in on how to avoid problems you just didn’t consider.”
mdavenportphoto.blogspot.com

“How to shoot a reportage covers an incredible amount in a rather modest page count whilst answering many questions along the way… From the development of an idea to post production, there’s practical advise throughout.”
photocreative365.com

“How To Shoot A Reportage” is a great reference, with plenty of useful and practical information in it.
martybugs.net

“What I like about this book is that it is so well structured and it aswers almost all questions I used to have.”
PhotographyMasterClass.com

“I liken this reading experience to engaging in an actual conversation with him as if you were an individual considering the path of professional photojournalist”
alavinephotography

“He talks about knowing your market, and preparing your trips and shoots with the end client in mind. The information he shares isn’t vague and generalist, but talks in detail about exactly how about he goes about making these analyses and how he approaches his trips and reportage stories.”
Cathy Topping Blog

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