What are the skills of documentary photography?

The first rule of documentary photography is to know your subject first and predict when the subject will appear. If you don't know your theme, when it appears, you won't have time to adjust the shutter aperture and other settings to cope with shooting. Reach the highest state of man-machine integration.

Step 2 study

All news and stories don't happen at the moment you arrive at the scene. Know in advance, find a theme you want to shoot and present the event to the audience.

Step 3 communicate with people

This is the same as the key to making wonderful works in tourism photography. The photographer will be in different places at the next moment when important news happens. You may not have any friends there, or you may not speak the local language. If you refuse to open your heart and establish relations and exchanges with local people, your mobility and the depth of your work will be greatly weakened.

4. In order of priority

When you are in a major news event, there may be hundreds of themes in front of you that attract you to shoot. But as time goes on, these themes will gradually disappear. While grasping every second of shooting, it is more important to understand the whole picture of the incident and find out the theme that should be shot first.

Step 5 practice

The purpose of the exercise is to achieve a state of man-machine integration, and you can quickly respond to the shooting work when the incident occurs. Daamir emphasized that it is more important for you to have a clear and in-depth understanding of the capabilities and settings of your existing camera than to constantly pursue the latest camera model.