Sharpen Skills: Photo shooting and editing training course

Deputy Minister for Information U Ye Tint addressed the concluding ceremony of the photo shooting and editing training course 1/2022 in Nay Pyi Taw on Friday.

In his address, the Deputy Minister said news and photographs are interrelated, and pictures are important in presenting news. It is also imperative that the photographer’s mindset is reflected in the content of the news coverage.

He also urged the trainees to keep learning more improved presentation of photographs and to shoot quality pictures in line with the content of the news by using today’s technologies.

And, the deputy minister gave completion certificates to a leader of the trainees and viewed the documentary photos taken by trainees.

In the training, topic of shooting and editing photographs was taught by external instructors in addition to indoor and outdoor shooting exercises.

Instructors from the News and Periodicals Enterprise also gave lectures on the basic structure of news, the writing of news and news articles, online posting of news items and reciprocal flow of news.

The training was held from 6 to 16 September and attended by 20 IPRD departmental personnel in Nay Pyi Taw Council, regions and states.