And, generally, the ones that win prizes are the ones that show eyes.
Look at the POY and Capa Award sites, and the Columbia Journalism Review site. Check out the digitaljournalist.com. Look at sites of famous pjs.
Here's an interesting site:
Photographs from the NH primary season by Concord Monitor staff
http://www.primarymonitor.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=4 --
Look at the pix on www.VII.com.
Look at the daily crop of news pix that make it onto the wire. You can get there through yahoo news
And yes, cropping is sort of basic to photojournalism. Column sizes don't fit a ratio of 2:3. Even the pro digital cameras have a better ratio.
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Emily L. Ferguson
mailto:elf@xxxxxxxx 508-563-6822
New England landscapes, wooden boats and races, press photography http://www.vsu.cape.com/~elf
