04.RATIONALE


 * whether of a board fence, an eggshell, a mountain peak, the great photograph first ask, then answers, two questions, "is that my world?" what if not, has that world to do with me? -- Dorothea lange**


 * Tom,(1980) points out that "photojournalism cannot be defined in one tidy sentence". pp,41. therefore, it is interplay of words doing the job gentle words can do, against the photograph, which speaks to us with a universal language. The visual language crosses cultures, political divisions and time. The photograph captures time freezes motion and reveals the invisible with unmatchable reality. The goal of a photojournalist is to tall the reader what was there, cleanly, quickly, and whithout mystery, confusion or riddle.**


 * "photography like law, medicine and other professions involves numerous skills". (mcgray,1984,p.180). however, a professional photographer usually specializes on limited areas at least at first. A photographer lay record weddings or portraits or architecture or or almost anything use, such us photographer becomes a highly skilled at one or a new areas but knows little or nothing about fields outside the usual assignment. In addition, a photojournalist must acquire a sense of storytelling that includes an empathy with their subject, they know that photography is more than technical knowledge about producing pictures and being in the right place at the right time. good photojournalist, prepare and plan their shooting. they apply their knowledge and experiences they acquire. they look for what is interesting and they try to tell stories that are true to there subjects.**


 * PHOTOJOURNALISM ETHICS:**


 * RULE#1: TAKE THE PICTURE**
 * Pictures don't lie -- or so we think**


 * because a photograph resembles in size and shape what the eyes sees, most people believe that pictures do not -- cannot -- lie.. But that is not the case. photographs cannot show everything the eye can see. their focus or range of view must narrowed that the normally functioning human eye.**


 * in addition,they only present the visual aspect of a science at a particular moments. they cannot show what happens before and after the picture was taken.**


 * All of these things can change what we know about what we think were seeing in a photograph. But despite of these shortcoming, we still believe that pictures present us with a forum of truth. And in that belief we pay attention to respond and remember.**


 * RULE#2: DONT CHANGE THE PICTURE**


 * Still the profession of photojournalism and by far an overwhelming majority of individual photographers insist that the picture should stand as they are shot. In this age, of digital manipulation it is easy to eliminate elements or add items, that is to do things to a picture that make it less truthful.**