Photography Tips for Journalists

Introduction: After entering the digital age, how to allow readers to obtain the most information in the shortest time has become a question that the media industry is constantly reflecting on. What are the photography skills of reporters? The following are articles I have compiled for you. Welcome to read! I hope it will be helpful to everyone!

1. Find the angle

All news has key points (or angle), otherwise it will just become a boring list of words (whether written or spoken). We typically observe life at a level eye level, and photographers seek out unique angles whenever possible, such as squatting, sitting or even standing on something, to help find highlights that are more interesting to the viewer. If you can't move your subject, you can adjust your position.

For example, the visual story above needs an angle to enliven the photo in order to make it more meaningful. Finding this angle, covering all the factual elements, means the visual story becomes more interesting.

2. Increase popularity

There are many quotes in news reports, and news pictures also need people. It will be very interesting when we see other people in the photos. Scenes of heavy rain from the sky look stunning, but the photos are even more interesting when someone is running through the downpour holding an umbrella. We may have emotional reactions because we all have empathy.

The downpour looks interesting, but with the addition of people "running for their lives," the photos look even more vivid.

3. Full of life

An action can make a photo more vivid, just like a verb can make a story more vivid. The best way to make your photo or visual story come alive is to make the person in the photo do something. This usually means that he or she needs to use their hands to do things.

But in less than 30 seconds, the photo turns into a more interesting scene. Even though this is a portrait photo, the frame is filled with relevant visual information. (Also, people have become thinner, have they.)

4. Horizontal shooting

Smartphones and other handheld devices are designed to be held vertically so that people can Taking vertical photos comes out of instinct. But instinctive or not, we all live in a horizontal world. We can scan horizontally from left to right instead of top to bottom, such as streets, houses, football fields, floods, etc.

The focus of this visual story is on the booth and the people, not the views at the top and bottom of the photo. The reason why this photo was taken in landscape orientation is because it can contain more information.

For this reason, most of our television and movie screens are set up in landscape orientation. A good photo and well-written story never contains useless information. Most vertical photos display relevant visual information in the center of the image, while useless information is automatically filtered to the top and bottom edges.

All of these techniques should be applied to every photo you take. Whether photography is your job, or you take photos at parties, on holidays, or while walking down the street, photos that tell a story are far more interesting than photos that just show something.

The next time you run out in a hurry to start reporting on the news, and your colleagues behind you yell at you to send back photos, these photography skills will make you more confident and help you take absolutely better photos. Meaningful photos.