News photography

Author: Yan Biliang
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: News photography is a branch of journalism and a category of photography. It is an applied discipline that uses real, fresh, and vivid images combined with brief textual descriptions to convey visual information through various media. News photography is a product of modern civilization. Compared to its close relatives, written news and painting, it is indeed much younger, but in the history of social development, it has also had its own developmental journey. This book is composed of sixteen parts, introducing topics such as news photography equipment, taking clear photos, creatively using cameras, lighting in news photography, composition in news photography, subject matter in news photography, reporting forms in news photography, the composition and operation of news photographs, observation in news photography, news photography interviews, photo-taking in news photography, refining in news photography, expression in news photography, writing captions for news photographs, submitting news photographs, and the operation of news photography in related categories.