1. Introduction to Documentary Photography

4. Moving in focuses the viewer’s vision

5. Getting close involves the viewer with your subject

6. Distracting Surroundings

7. Are simplified by Getting Close

10. Show People Doing Something!

11. Watch for interaction between people: eye contact

12. Keep the Background Simple: Look At Edges

13. Frame foreground elements with background elements

14. Simplify the Background by throwing it out of focus

15. Look for an Unusual Point of View that helps tell the story

16. Consider Getting Above the Situation

17. Look for “Frames”

18. Include foreground objects as a frame

19. Composition: The Rule of thirds

20. Rule of Thirds

24. Don’t always use Horizontal Framing

25. Turn Your Camera to get a Vertical Frame

26. Practice Your Timing

27. Timing: Can you see everyone’s face?

29. Use your flash to lighten foreground

30. The interview itself is part of history.

31. Whose story is it? In the Heritage Project, the documentarian is part of the story.