News Requirements, Shooting Skills and Precautions

In work, especially in file management, trace management, work publicity and so on, more and more photos are needed. Photography technology is more important than ever, whether it is for personal life or work. In order to popularize photography knowledge and improve the quality of news pictures, we collected and sorted out this article from the internet, and introduced some practical knowledge from the requirements of news pictures, shooting skills and matters needing attention for your reference.

1. What is a news picture?

News pictures report news events in time with fresh, true, vivid and touching images and short text descriptions. Its main feature is to report news promptly and vividly with the help of visual images.

2. News picture requirements

(1) Seeking truth, the pictures in the news must be the real photos in this event, without retouching or PS.

(2) Innovation, the picture must contain fresh and bright colors and be clear!

(3) At the scene, pictures can show the atmosphere of news events, which is infectious!

4 pleading can grasp the expressive characteristics of the subject of the picture, thus expressing the psychological feelings of the subject!

⑤ Seeking meaning, according to the requirements of news as a whole, news pictures must show the key points of news content.

⑥ The description of words should be standardized, and the facts of pictures, including dates, people and events, should be precise and rigorous, and then the background of news events should be explained to ensure the authenticity and objectivity of news to the greatest extent.

3. Photographic skills of news pictures

(1) is good at capturing information-rich moments. The information contained in the picture should be able to express the theme of the news and explain the background and time of the news. For example, in a meeting, if there is a logo, the logo should be taken down; When filming flood control, it is necessary to explain the relationship between the water surface and buildings, plants, and even the turbulent environment of water. Let people know the news events at a glance from the pictures.

(2) Being good at capturing symbolic moments is a kind of moments with generality and expressiveness, and its image often shows some hidden meaning, indicating some connotation outside the painting, and more permeating the photographer's subjective understanding and thoughts and feelings.

(3) Being good at capturing humorous moments, if humorous scenes are added to news pictures, it can not only reflect the meaning and essence of events from another angle and side, but also enlighten people's hearts and make people relaxed and happy. For example, during the competition, taking some pigeons' smiling and talking expressions into the camera can show their firm confidence in winning the competition.

(4) Being good at shooting novel moments, that is, at the scene of news events, at different shooting positions and angles, the news events are refreshing and unique. This moment is famous for its novelty and uniqueness.

(5) By carefully observing the movements of the characters, we can see their spirit, temperament and personality characteristics. For example, the concentration during the meeting, the enthusiasm for service, the joy of the masses when granting subsidies, the tense atmosphere during flood control and so on.

4. Matters needing attention in news photography

(1) Pay attention to the posture of news figures when taking snapshots. You can't make news pictures of eyes, mouth, walking and other actions that look bad in expression and posture. Such as half-opening, yawning, stretching, etc.

(2) You can't take seemingly uncivilized and unsightly photos such as smoking, scratching your head and picking your nose for news photos. For example, you are too exposed or disheveled, or put your hands in your pockets when shaking hands with others. There are also pictures of eating and talking on the mobile phone, which can't appear on non-specific occasions.

(3) When taking photos of news figures, you can't take pictures of the back, especially if the news figures are the main body and you can't tell who they are. This is not good. The main body of news figures should be highlighted or displayed in the picture, and should not be blocked or robbed by secondary figures.

(4) When shooting news events, we should highlight the theme as concisely as possible, so that readers can know what is reflected at a glance, and the picture must not be chaotic and there is no distinction between primary and secondary.

5, general photography knowledge

(1) The banner is wide and the vertical amplitude is towering. Even if it is a mobile phone, it should be held horizontally or vertically as needed.

(2) There are many methods of composition, the most commonly used one is TIC-tac-toe composition, which simply means putting the subject or focus on one third of the picture. When composing a composition, we should pay attention to avoiding sundries and factors that damage the picture, and we can also make cutting choices later.

(3) Reasonable airplane seats. The same scene, the pictures taken from different planes, the perspective effect is different. According to the need, you can lift the camera or mobile phone to shoot (you can stand in a higher position to shoot if you have the conditions at the scene) or step down to shoot.

(4) Try to keep the camera stable, and the unstable photos will be burned. You can shoot the camera or mobile phone near a stable place such as a wall or a tree pole.

(5) A simple method to avoid the picture being too bright and too dark to control the exposure during automatic shooting. In places with strong or very bright light (such as backlight and white walls), the camera itself is often very dark, and even has an outline for people, while in darker places, the camera will be too bright for people. A simple way to control the exposure is to pat the picture slightly in a brighter place when it is too bright, and pat it slightly in a darker place when it is too dark.

6. Common mistakes in photographic composition

(1) The graph is too full. Some beginners like to make the subject stand tall and full of picture sense when taking pictures, which is not conducive to the cutting in the post-production process of photos. At the same time, it will make the work look stiff and rigid.

(2) The picture is skewed. In order to shoot all the tall scenes, some people take the method of tilting the picture when taking pictures. This is really not worth the loss. This will cause the horizon to tilt, the picture to be unbalanced and the visual experience to be uncomfortable.

(3) When the head hits the south wall to shoot a profile portrait or an object with forward momentum, there is no space left in front of the main body of the picture, giving people the feeling that the head hits the south wall, and the picture looks dull and depressing.

(4) Improper background selection and attachments lead to chimneys on the shoulders and big branches on the heads, which destroys the original image of the characters.

(5) When the subject is a tall background, Gu Jing ignores the crowd and raises the camera blindly. The result is the whole photo, but the characters often have only one head left in the photo, which falls at the bottom of the photo and is very ugly.

(6) The position of the horizon is not handled well when the picture is divided, and it is placed in the middle of the picture, so the picture is divided into two, lacking a sense of harmony and unity.

(7) A presumptuous guest usurps the host's role shows too much foil in the picture, which makes the main object in a secondary position without attracting attention.

(8) Lack of interest and the spirit of giving up what one loves. Fish? Area, The bear's paw also has the intention of taking things in a proper way and accepting everything, but it has caused the phenomenon of no primary and secondary pictures, few clues, loose structure and confusion.

(9) When everyone takes a group photo, the position of the characters is not arranged well, so it is impossible to form a trend of moving closer to the core, and the picture situation is divided, which is inconsistent with the theme that the work wants to express.