What should I pay attention to in news photos?

News photography is playing an increasingly important role in the rapidly developing modern journalism. News photography integrates news, ideology, authenticity, timeliness and visualization, which can condense the emotions of news subjects in the picture, giving people a concise and shocking effect, and has the function of "a picture is worth a thousand words". News photography meets readers in the form of news pictures with short text descriptions. It is different from the moving images on movies and TV, but has a static image, that is, the image of the news itself is fixed on a picture instantly. Mr. Jiang Qisheng once suggested that news photography should have "five essentials", namely novelty, truthfulness, life, pleading and meaning. This requires news photographers to go deep into their lives and strive to shoot news photos with both news value and artistry under the premise of strictly observing the rules of news photography, which has both strong news value and high artistic appreciation value. News photography requires the unity of truth, goodness and beauty in content and form, and it needs to use artistic techniques to grasp typical moments and let the image "speak". Only in this way can we have a strong ideological and infectious nature and have a more shocking effect.

The explanation of news pictures in China Practical News Dictionary is "a form of news reporting that combines the visual image of pictures with short text descriptions to report news and spread information". This interpretation shows that "news" and "information" are the "core" of pictures, and pictures are just the "shell" carrying "news" and "information". If there is no "news content" in the picture, only the "shell" of the picture is left, and the picture will lose its meaning.

(1) Definition of visual impact force

Visual impact refers to an intuitive image, which is directly presented to the audience without the imagination of the audience and can leave an impression on the audience's mind.

(2) The method of taking pictures in kind makes news pictures have impact.

Emphasize the uniqueness of the scene and make it have a strong visual impact. You do this in order to get closer to the subject, and you can get better visual impact than long-distance shooting. In addition, the choice of shooting point should be unconventional and the photography language should be concise and clear.

(1) is good at capturing information-rich moments.

News photography mainly reveals news facts and disseminates news information with instant images. The more information concentrated in news photos, the greater the news value and the more innovative it will be. For example, in the Netherlands, when a car accident happened, two photographers from DPA and AP were present. A reporter from DPA photographed the moment when a car hit the wall and got out of the building. The Associated Press reporter filmed the moment when the car collided with the oncoming car after passing through the building. Therefore, most newspapers use the photos of the Associated Press. Because the photo of the Associated Press reporter not only reflects the plot of the car hitting the wall and going out of the building, but also explains the result of colliding with another car after going out of the building, which is more informative.

Information content has two aspects: one is factual information content, and the other is emotional information content.

In the practice of news photography, we often find such a phenomenon: some news photos seem to contain little information, but they are also favored by readers. What is the reason? This is because the information content of news pictures includes two aspects: factual information content and emotional information content. Although many news pictures contain little factual information, they contain a lot of emotional information, so they are equally popular.