What are the basic qualities of news photographers?

Section 1 Quality and Cultivation of Photojournalists

A photojournalist is a professional who reports news by photography. First, the professional quality of a photojournalist A photojournalist is first of all a journalist and should have the basic qualities of a qualified journalist. The particularity of photojournalists lies in the uniqueness of the way they report-the combination of news pictures and words, not the combination of words, sounds or sounds and pictures to spread information. Photojournalist is a combination of journalism and visual communication-image communication, and has special professional requirements.

(A) good at capturing the image of the scene

The scene is the most important thing for reporters. Journalists can get first-hand materials, and photographers need to get in touch with the news scene at zero distance. Only in the news scene can they take pictures.

When reporting emergencies, it is the embodiment of the photographer's professional quality to eliminate interference and resistance and quickly arrive at the scene to shoot.

A professional photojournalist should have ready-made equipment in his camera bag, emergency kits in his office and home, and a reliable relationship between civil aviation and railway transportation in case of emergency.

Photographers should be diligent in their eyes, brains, hands and feet in order to catch good news.

It should be noted that the photographer's task is to convey news information through visual language. Under the conditions of the scene, it is necessary to clearly distinguish the communication intention and creative intention of shooting, because photos are for readers to see.

(2) Strong language and writing skills

Language and writing ability can be subdivided into language ability and writing ability.

Language ability: the ability to communicate with the interviewee and others during the interview.

Writing skills: the ability to write news or pictures.

A photojournalist with strong language skills is good at communicating with interviewees and getting information by asking questions. At the same time, he should also have a unique sense of lens and image in his writing. If you can "draw" and "write", you have an obvious advantage over the writers in online news reports.

(3) Having professional technical skills in photography.

Photography skills are the basic professional requirements of photographers. This includes the basic knowledge of camera, photography modeling skills, chromatics, image processing and image transmission, aesthetics and so on.

In the competition of news photography in the digital age, it is an important part of photography skills to rely on digital technology for shooting, interviewing, editing, publishing, digital post-production and multimedia output.

News photography is closely related to social life, so it is a subject that keeps learning from other photography categories and disciplines, and photographers need to keep learning in practice.

Second, the training of photojournalists.

(A) to cultivate the subject consciousness

Subjective consciousness: it means that photographers should give full play to their subjective initiative and originality in their work and reflect their professionalism, professionalism and personality in their reports.

1, find out the characteristics of the media, fully understand their own conditions and advantages, and foster strengths and avoid weaknesses.

2. While completing the task of the editorial department, try to establish your own clue network and take the initiative to put forward interview clues and report topics.

3, independent action, improve their ability to illustrate, do not rely on text reporters, can independently complete the registration work.

Improve competitiveness

1. Know your peers and yourself.

2. Be good at observation and discovery, and constantly innovate in shooting creativity, angle and theme.

3. Keep learning, broaden your horizons and absorb more updated information and ideas.

(3) the spirit of struggle that is not afraid of difficulties and sacrifices.

When an emergency happens, photojournalists not only have to go deep into the scene to interview and shoot, but also are easily recognized because of their own cameras, which makes the profession of photojournalists more dangerous.

Going deep into the scene often means taking risks. Especially in times of war and turmoil, photographers may become targets of attack.

Photographers are the profession of brave people. If you want to take really good news photos, you must have the spirit of not being afraid of sacrifice and get closer and closer to the scene.

Photographers should not advocate unnecessary sacrifices, but should pay attention to protecting themselves as much as possible, while ensuring the completion of shooting tasks, safety first.

Robert capa, a famous war photographer, became famous for shooting the Spanish Civil War and other battlefields, and finally 1954 died in Vietnam on May 25th.

"If your work is not good enough, it is because you are not close enough to the gunfire."

(D) Enthusiasm and quality awareness

Choosing a career as a photojournalist requires great work feelings and great material and spiritual input.

(5) Moral cultivation and legal awareness

The profession of news photography requires photographers to have noble professional ethics and be responsible for society, readers and subjects.

Photographers should know the law, understand the law, abide by the law and use it, work within the scope permitted by law, and use the law to safeguard their work rights and personal safety.

In the second quarter, the working characteristics of news photographers 1, relying on modern scientific and technological means.

2. There are strong on-site regulations for interview and shooting.

3. It is often necessary to complete the interview and shooting tasks independently.

It has great occupational hazards.