Briefly describe the influence of digital technology development on news photography.

1. It provides a strong guarantee for taking news photos under special conditions

With the accelerated pace of people's lives, digital photography has met the audience's demand for news fast food, and journalists have become the first practitioners to use digital photography. In the field interview, taking photos by traditional photography and developing the film by ourselves are greatly restricted by objective conditions, and the sensitivity of the film can not guarantee the needs of news photography in war. Huang Wen, a famous female reporter of Xinhua News Agency, successfully solved the above problems by using digital cameras during the Kosovo war, especially when Yugoslavia was subjected to NATO economic sanctions. The sensitivity of the digital camera can be adjusted at will, which enabled her to successfully take photos of the bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Yugoslavia, and took the first photo of Xinhua News Agency reporter Shao Yunhuan without flash. Because during the war, it is dangerous to expose yourself with a flash, and it is impossible for a traditional camera to complete this task. Digital camera shows its powerful advantages in special environment, which effectively guarantees the success rate of shooting.

2. Enhance the timeliness of news photo transmission

Speed and efficiency are the most remarkable characteristics brought by digital technology to photography, which is exactly what news photography relies on when spreading information. Therefore, it is not difficult for us to understand that many news photographers have already set foot in the digital field when digital photographic equipment was relatively expensive and not so popular a few years ago.

Taking news photos with a digital camera saves the waiting time for developing and printing photos. With the help of digital communication network all over the world, you can shoot and publish at the same time, which greatly saves the later work in the darkroom, which is incomparable to traditional photography technology. Digital photography transcends the barriers of time and region, and can send the news photos to newspapers anytime and anywhere, thus improving the competitiveness of news photography as a form of news reporting with TV news and online video.

3. Enhance the public participation of news photography

In the digital age, the introduction of photography has become easier and easier, and the popularization of news photo collection process has made news photography have unprecedented public participation. Jupiter research company, a famous American research organization, predicts that by 28, about 6 million people around the world will use mobile phones with camera function, which means that there will be a huge photography team carrying cameras anytime and anywhere in the world.

Facing the unprofessional but ubiquitous amateur photography army, more and more traditional media try to incorporate the images taken by citizens into the mainstream communication channels. Media such as Beijing Youth Daily, Jinghua Times, Jingbao and Yangcheng Evening News have begun to use mobile phone to take news photos.

Therefore, the Internet and mobile phones have made the communication behavior ubiquitous with lower and lower use cost and free mobility. Although most of the images spread by the photographers of mobile phone pictures are still lack of authority and credibility, their rapid spread and strong interaction have made public-centered image communication appear in BLACKPINK and become popular.