Basic viewpoints of photojournalism

Photography

The basic task of photography is to report various new facts, which belongs to the category of journalism. Some people believe that photojournalism and art should not be confused, but throughout history, many classic photojournalism works not only truly record news events, but also contain the photographer's extremely high artistic attainments.

Journalism work

Under the guidance of general principles, the characteristics of its image expression must be fully taken into account in order to maximize its strengths and avoid its weaknesses, and fully exert the power of its image reporting. The practice of ignoring the image characteristics of photojournalism must also be overcome. 3. News photos are a combination of photographic images and text descriptions that contain news elements. The requirements for both should be consistent. For example, it is required that the content of the report should be about real people and real events, and the images that represent this content should also be about real people and scenes. And we must not be required to obey the true principles of news in terms of text description, but allow speciousness in terms of image presentation.

Photographic documentary

This kind of picture image must be obtained by the photographer on the basis of on-site observation, through the selection and ingestion of the most representative plots and moments, rather than What a product of "creation". The image of news photos must obey the principle of journalistic truth.

The atmosphere of the scene

We cannot impose the standards of artistic photos on news photos and blame them for everything. People often use "artistic quality" to measure the expressiveness of news photos, and customarily speaking, this is not a bad idea. However, when using this term, care should be taken to distinguish between two different types of photos.