News photography skills

News photography consists of two elements: news and photography. Some people call it "photojournalism" and "photojournalism". This is a popular saying with some truth. News photography uses photography technology as a means to convey news information through the visual image of photo images. It is a news style that conveys news information through visual images. Therefore, the content of "news" report and the visual image of "photography" are complementary and interdependent. Without one, it is not news photography. For example, in daily life, there are a lot of subjects that can be photographed every day, and activities that have no news value. Although vivid pictures can be captured, they can only be life photos, not news photos. In addition, text description is also an important part of news photography and indispensable. The essential feature of news photography is to report news by combining photos with text descriptions. Its connotation is the organic combination of photos and text descriptions (including titles). Its boundary is whether the news is reported or not. Therefore, we can express the definition of news photography in the following language: "News photography mainly records the news facts that are happening (or the cause and effect associated with news) by photography, and reports them with text descriptions (including headlines) with news information." This definition provides the following five aspects for news photography: (1) the object of news photography-news facts; (2) The means and forms of news photography-the combination of photos and text description; (3) The shooting requirements of news photography-the news facts that are happening, or the causes and effects associated with news; (4) Text description of news photography-news information is required, which is associated with the photo content; (5) The basic function of news photography is to report news vividly. So "news photography is to report news with photos". The one-sidedness of this view lies in that it only pays attention to the "photo" in the connotation of news photography and ignores its important component-text description. This essentially regards news photography as a form of photography, but ignores that news photography is also a form of news. The birth of news photography is due to the needs of newspapers and periodicals to report news, and the survival of news photography also depends on the needs of newspapers and periodicals. Without reporting news, news photography loses its value of existence. Therefore, there is no doubt that the basic function of news photography is to report news.