How to create excellent news photography pictures

Can reflect the excellent news photography should have what conditions:

1. What is news photography?

China began to discuss it in the 1980s, and now the commonly adopted definition is: news photography is a form of news reporting, supplemented by photography technology, by selecting snapshots on the spot, extracting specific instantaneous images and combining necessary text factors.

2. Real and vivid, subjective image, strong sense of scene, great impact, clear at a glance.

These are the advantages of photo news.

A good news photo can reveal the theme of things through vivid instant images, and make readers have psychological voices and rich associations. Compared with written news and oral broadcast, news photography is more intuitive. Photographs present the image of things to readers, and the effect of reading photos is clear at a glance, unlike language and words.

3. High-quality photography spirit

News photography needs high-quality photographers.

A journalist is a professional who reports news through photography. First of all, he needs to master skilled photography technology, so that he can use his opponent's equipment freely and skillfully. With the rapid development of modern science and technology, computer software is constantly innovating, and the emergence of every related new technology is making positive contributions to the development and progress of news photography. Photographers should actively master their new technology related to action, and only in this way will they not fall behind.

Nowadays, digital rampage brings convenience to news photography, but the invention and application of any advanced technology is a double-edged sword, which brings severe challenges to the authenticity of news photography. Photographers should not cheat just for the fame of their works while improving their competitiveness.

Step 4 respect the facts

Respecting the truth and the public's right to get the truth is the primary task of journalists. "

Bryanski is a photojournalist of the Los Angeles Times in Iraq. On March 30th, 2003, he sent a news photo to the newspaper and published it on the front page of the Los Angeles Times. When the latter employee zoomed in 6 times, he found that it was a photo of two pictures. The famous journalist who has 25 years of experience and won many awards such as "Photographer of the Year 200 1" of the California Press Photography Association was fired. This is the price of fraud, and because of this, the famous reporter lost the opportunity to work in the press forever. "Respecting the truth and the public's right to get the truth is the primary task of journalists." (Outline of Journalism Ethics, written by Zhou Hong, p. 258, Beijing, Xinhua Publishing House, 1st edition, 1995).

5. Shock the soul.

"The most important thing about photography is from the heart-not to satisfy your inner pleasure, but to give your love from the bottom of your heart." (David? Best language)

What is shocking in news photography?

That is the true and vivid image of human life activities grasped by news photographers in news photography practice and aesthetic practice. As an activity of pursuing a better future, news photography has produced an aesthetic creation activity. The news photos it produces are also an aesthetic description of the development history of human pursuit of a better future. News photography is produced in the pursuit of a better future. It constantly plays its own role and spreads the information of "good things". So photographers need to have certain aesthetic judgment. When people examine news pictures, they freely and consciously use aesthetic consciousness to measure the beauty of news pictures, so as to obtain the satisfaction of vision and information. A good news photo can not only achieve the effect of "a picture is worth a thousand words", but also has enduring artistic charm. However, as a news picture, it is facing the general public, and we can't just focus on artistic effects and be divorced from the public, otherwise it will not be a successful news picture. Today, with the popularization of color pictures, we still see the existence of black and white pictures. Black and white photos have their own advantages, simple, simple, subtle and imaginative. Some subjects are more suitable for black and white photos, such as war, disaster and coal mine life. In the world photojournalism competition, many photographers have been reluctant to give up the black-and-white images of war and disaster because they know the emotional characteristics of black. Only black and white can help express their psychological feelings about war and convey them to readers.

"The most important thing about photography is from the heart-not to satisfy your inner pleasure, but to give your love from the bottom of your heart."

(David? Only in the spirit of humanistic care can news photos taken by news photographers be both true and touching. If you shoot your life just to satisfy your curiosity, complete your task or just to capture exclusive news, your news photos will not only be greatly discounted, but also be condemned by your conscience and criticized by the audience.

6. Close contact with news events

"You don't want to' shoot' war and hunger, you are in contact with living people and the problems facing mankind. You can keep your distance from them, but you must keep close contact. " (Preki, President of American Contact Photo Agency)

Photographers must have morality while shooting good news and wonderful scenes, and respect the life, emotion and rights of the interviewee from the perspective of humanistic care. Otherwise, once they are burdened with emotional debts, their hearts will be seriously unbalanced, and contradictions, guilt and pain will haunt them. In today's highly competitive situation, only based on the spirit of humanistic care can the image of news photography be vivid, vivid, vivid and touching, and the works of news photography have affinity and appeal. Only in this way can readers have a buzz, and that is the success of photojournalists.

News photographers used the moments they captured in the process of social development to weave a magnificent image history of social development.

There are many masterpieces of news photography in the world, all of which are wonderful moments. These photographers who observe the world with three eyes are quick in thinking and fine in action, which is amazing. Instant capture is when the photographer's knowledge base breaks out. On the surface, the camera just pressed the shutter, just for a short moment. As we all know, the reporter's view of the world, his analytical ability of things, his conception of image and his exposure of knowledge level are all shown at that moment. Pressing the shutter is decisive, which is called "great moment" by the world photographer Bresson, and "before pressing the shutter" is also decisive. "Kung Fu is outside the poem", the deeper the kung fu outside the photo, the higher the quality, and the more accurate the moment. Excellent news photography works are the condensation of typical moments.

References:

1) news photography Xu, Xinhua publishing house, first edition, June 1997.

2) The Course of News Photography, edited by Sheng Xigui, was published by Renmin University of China Press in April 2003, second edition.

3) The Quality and Fame of Journalists, written by Yao Wenhua, Xinhua Publishing House, first edition in June 1990.

4) The China Reporter, May 2006.