Shooting perception

When I first came into contact with photography, I was always dissatisfied with my work. The biggest reason is that the composition is not good enough. After years of photography, I'm still not satisfied with my work. One reason is that the composition is not good enough.

When I first started to learn composition, my feeling was that the perfect composition of photography was too difficult. At that time, I was thinking, what is the best photographic composition? Is there an absolute definition of the best photographic composition? If so, as long as we grasp the definition, can each work get the most perfect composition?

When I was learning to drive, I sat in the cab and held the steering wheel. When the car is driving, I feel it is difficult to drive to the desired position accurately because the steering wheel control is not accurate enough. At that time, I thought to myself, whether there is an accurate "degree" in the control of the steering wheel, and how much rotation in what position can achieve the goal. Later, with the proficiency of driving technology, I became more and more comfortable in grasping the direction. I just need to use my head and keep up with my hands. I don't need to think about how much the steering wheel should turn. In the final analysis, it is because of more driving and more actual exercise that the skills have naturally improved.

Anyone who has driven a car knows that the speed, the position on the road, when to start turning, the speed of turning and the accuracy of position judgment will all have an impact on how much the steering wheel turns. The same old driver turned around on the same road section, and some experienced old drivers have already done it in one round trip. And some old drivers have been driving for more than ten years, but they never feel it. They had to walk back and forth five or six times before turning the car around, and they were so busy that they were sweating. As it turns out, you can't find the feeling after driving for a long time. The most important thing is to study. Remember, it's learning!

Although there are standards for the quality of photographic composition, there is no theory of death. There can be many different compositions in the same scene. Although these compositions are completely different, they are equally wonderful. In other words, composition, like the steering wheel, is more about personal feelings and the embodiment of personal cultural level. The higher the educational level, the better the writing ability.

Continuous learning is also the best way to improve your writing ability. Reading more books, reading good books and improving personal cultural literacy are the most direct changes. Of course, if we can read more masterpieces of famous photographers, refer to more Chinese paintings, read more reviews of photographic works in magazines and newspapers, and be good at discovering our own shortcomings, we can have more room for progress.

There is no fixed composition method, no best composition, only better composition!

The second essay on photography: perceptual photography

I don't know since when, I have always loved writing and painting, and I also like the art of photography. I even spent a lot of money on a Canon 60D.

I want to learn photography, which is not my subconscious idea. Mainly influenced by friends around me in recent years. In addition, I want to go out and feel the nature for a long time, express my feelings in another way, from another aesthetic angle, depict things with light and shadow, see the world with a lens, express my feelings in the scenery, express my feelings between mountains and rivers, and achieve the purpose of adjusting my mood, cultivating my sentiment and collecting writing materials. This is my original intention of learning photography.

Who knows, as soon as I picked up the camera, I couldn't control myself, as if I met a lover, and I was out of control-observing while walking, thinking while eating, recalling while sleeping, seeking knowledge from books, asking friends for "Tao", thinking during the day and dreaming at night. As soon as I have free time, I pick up my camera and set off, wading through mountains and rivers, getting up early and getting greedy for the dark, shooting in the park, scanning in the streets and lanes, and seeing the scenery of mountains and rivers is really fascinating.

I fall in love with photography because it can stay away from the disputes and troubles in the world, let me swim freely between mountains and rivers, find and pursue a realm of harmony between man and nature, and let my impulsive heart get a moment's peace in the process of concentrating on photography. The complexity and fierce competition in modern society have left a lot of trauma and unevenness to people's hearts, leaving a lot of confusion and troubles, especially living in a city with many steel bars and loud noises for a long time, and eager to find a quiet place to rest for a while. Whenever I wander alone in the north and south of the river with my camera on my back, looking for mountains and rivers, enjoying the height of nature with a calm mind and feeling the wind, frost, rain and snow on earth with a calm mind, I will feel relaxed and happy, and some restless things in my heart will go with the wind, which often brings me a calm and ethereal sky.

I fell in love with photography, but also because I like the pleasure of pressing the shutter. Photography and writing have many similarities, but they have many different feelings. Writing is static thinking, chewing the essence accumulated in the past, and photography is dynamic perception, capturing the beauty of the present reality. Love is born from the scene, and the environment is born from the heart. The fun of photography lies in feeling. Whenever I raise my camera again and again, close my left eye and turn the lens, and record beautiful scenery with a click, my heart is always full of joy and pleasure. The sound of "click" rang again and again, and the sound that the photographer pursued again and again came out; Press the shutter again and again, freeze the scenery, precipitate the mood, and record the photographer's experience and perception of life. Photographers, on the other hand, improve their art and improve themselves by clicking again and again, enjoying the excitement and agitation of passion release.

I like photography because it can tell us a lot about being human. Life is like photography. Photography pays attention to light and shadow, composition, light and shadow are bright and dark, composition is optional, and so is the atmosphere of life. There are glorious times and dim moments. Take what you have in life, but also give it up in moderation, light and shade should complement each other, and the choice should be just right, otherwise it will dilute the theme of life. Photography requires us to look at the scenery from the best perspective when shooting, and photography inspires us to look at others with appreciation in our life.

Photography-refreshing, it can help you see the world from a small lens.

Photography-eye-catching, it allows you to discover beauty, reproduce beauty and create beauty from multiple angles in a complicated world. .......

Photographic essay: photographer

Since I loved photography, I have been paying attention to photographers, because I am one of them. Photography is a hobby that costs money. You need to constantly update your equipment and buy a car. Anyway, you have to spend money when you go out. Therefore, in order to save money, photographers can chew naan for one day, or buy two loaves of bread, a few fried dough sticks, some sesame oil, or a pack of compressed dry food, a pack of mustard tuber and a pot of water for one day.

Photographers are not rich and don't wear suits and ties very much. Most of the time, they wear hiking clothes. Most of them are red, yellow, grass, green and gray, and their bodies are bloated. Not because they are fat, but because they have many pockets, and they don't know what's in them. Although bloated, it can be as light as a swallow and its face is as black as a fly.

Photographers are sunny, healthy and love life. They are good at discovering beauty, capturing beauty and creating beauty. They are kind in heart, pay attention to spiritual pleasure and enrichment, and pay little attention to material things. No matter whether men or women fall in love with photography, the three views are ruined, because he or she is different from secular men and women. In order to make a big and good film, men and women can be fully armed in summer and wear clothes in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Do you think such a woman can still see her figure and image? Can such a man still tell his age?

After staying at home for a few days, they become as deadly as chickens and dead dogs, and they are alive and kicking as soon as they go out. In order to take a picture of wild animals, they can stay alone in the virgin forest for three to five days, just like Gadan in Tory and Laokou, a donkey friend in Emin. They often drive alone to the nearby barren hills for a week.

They can also wear fur hats, fur coats and big shoes to lie in the ice and snow all day, just to capture that classic moment. For this classic moment, they waited for him like fools. They often climb mountains and have homes everywhere. Sometimes their legs are swollen and they can't go out for three days after they come back.

In the eyes of photographers, beauty is only a part of their composition position, far less attractive than tens of thousands of shots. They scrimped and saved on traveling, buying lenses and replacing equipment. They are essentially a group of children. They are strange people who pursue beautiful moments, because you don't have to worry about him cheating on a third party, because he is buried in front of the computer when he comes back from foreign affairs. Ps modified his photo and took his photo as the bride. All he can think about is how to adjust the light and color to make the work look good. He has no energy and no interest in making waves outside. After sorting out the photos, he sent them to the group to see the reaction in the group. If the response is good, the sense of relief and pride is self-evident, and the hard work of taking pictures will disappear. Occasionally, I go to a photo exhibition. If I win the prize, it will be more meaningful for my other half to go out to take pictures next time. So, you can't expect more people who like photography and housework.

When going out, they must take backpacks, hats, rubber hoses, hiking shoes, combat boots, felt drums, tents and sleeping bags to facilitate climbing mountains and wading, because in order to take good photos, they have to climb mountains and dangerous beaches, and sometimes climb snowy mountains and grasslands, which is comparable to the Long March of the Red Army. In order to take photos of sunrise and sunset, they get up earlier than chickens and go to bed later than dogs.

Weekends are the most comfortable time for ordinary people. But for photographers, this is prime time. Because he thinks about the last shot of 169 ice flower every day, the snow in Mayitas can shoot a large film, and the winter shooting in Fuhai is so shocking. Therefore, when the golden weekend holiday comes, it is the busiest and most exciting time for photographers. You can discuss one by one in the group as early as possible, what time to leave tomorrow and what to bring. Generally, you will start mobilization preparation on Thursday, get off work on Friday afternoon, and sometimes you will rush to your destination overnight. That kind of passion is like a child taking part in a spring outing for the first time. Just like that time when we were shooting on the Tujia Liao grassland in Yumin, it was already past nine o'clock in the evening, and a photographer told Tianma that we could shoot a large film here. Tianma immediately drove from Emin with his daughter-in-law. At that time, we bet that Tianma would come. It's getting dark, and people in their fifties have already left 100 kilometers. Only a photographer can do such a thing.

People around you are still dreaming. They have set off in Daiyue, and people around the festival are playing cards, drinking, chatting and shopping. However, in order to get a good shot, they wandered around the countryside, cities and fields like ghosts. They are hungry against the wind and rain, and the heat and cold can't stop them. In order to find the right angle, they can lie or kneel or squat on the spot. They dare to step on cow dung and dog shit. The sewer has just been there. They stand on stools, ladders, trees and roofs. They are all acrobats. There are no difficult moves that they can't play, only those that you can't think of.

Everyone has a rich imagination. When they see Yun Tiankong in the sky, they will imagine spectacular sunrises and sunsets. When they see a wild goose, they also think how good it would be to catch it when it passes the sunset or the moon. If the beautiful women walking in the street look at him one more time, he begins to imagine who will take care of the study after they have children. In order to capture the beautiful women in the street, they can have the cheek to endure other people's strange eyes and follow the beautiful women like spoons, just to capture the imaginary pictures in their hearts. They can stand being pushed and scolded by others. If they meet a bad host, they apologize without saying anything, but they also have to endure other people's insults. Of course, there is also irony in saying so. In real life, there are many beautiful girls chasing photographers to take pictures, which is a very pleasing thing.

They talked about the sharpness of light and shadow compared with the sensitivity and contrast of aperture shutter composition, or who took a good film there and found a good place, who bought a good lens and a good car, and the work won a grand prize. They are messengers who discover beauty and goodness and expose ugliness and evil. They are the recorders of historical changes and the coagulators of historical moments.

Photographers work too hard. Let's watch a good work! Atmosphere, spectacular, vast, shocking, visual feast! But you don't know how much effort and sweat the photographer has put into this work. Ice and snow, wind and sun, hunger are normal things for them, and sometimes they risk falling into a mountain stream and dying in the jaws of a tiger or sudden natural disasters. Therefore, if you have such a photographer at home, you should be more understanding and tolerant. If someone follows you all the time in the street, you must forgive me. If you look back and smile again, it will be a classic moment in history forever.

Photographers have been chasing the wind in the western regions for more than 30 years, and their works have won many awards. Last time, in the photo exhibition of six counties and one city in Tacheng, my photo work "Snow in Mayitas" won the first prize with a prize of 8,000 yuan. I said, "Quite a lot." You know, I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on photography these years, and my son-in-law gave me a Ford car to support my photography.

Yes! People who play photography usually prefer to play with equipment, and professional photographic equipment is more expensive. A set of professional photographic equipment also costs 50 thousand yuan. In order to go out for photography, people of all ages have to spend money on cars. Therefore, people ridicule photographers: photography is three years poor, and SLR destroys life.

I said, "it's ok, at least it's famous, and the value of life is reflected." Many photographers have been photographing all their lives and are image recorders. " The photographer said, we photographers work so hard, why don't you write about us? I have been thinking about it since I got home, so I have this article.

Photographic Essay: My Love for Photography

First of all, when you read this article, don't treat me like a professional photographer. I only have a card machine and a film camera. Secondly, don't think I'm high-level. I boast that sometimes I can only capture the beauty of the moment.

Cameras have appeared on this planet for about 200 years. The person who invented this thing may have seen that all beautiful things can only be preserved through painting for future generations to enjoy. Although it has a lot of artistic value, it is not so realistic after all, but more inclined to freehand brushwork. This is a pity. The only way to change it is to invent something that can keep the moment, which is both artistic and real, so the camera was born under such circumstances.

I like photography. I can give people an indescribable pleasure by pressing the shutter. I think this may be because I feel that I have left something behind, created something, and then have a sense of accomplishment. I am a person who loves beauty. Of course, I don't mean that I like dressing up, but I love the beautiful things in life-colorful night scenes, fields with fragrant rice and wheat, beaches with water and sky, leisurely and quiet countryside ... These scenes make people daydream, but the realistic conditions often don't allow it, or even if they do, they are only temporarily separated from it. But the pursuit of beauty cannot stop. How can we resolve the contradictions during this period? Only photography. It left this scene "beauty" in the memory card, on the film, around us, in our hearts, and it is true, not a paragraph of text, nor an ink painting. When you look at it again, oh, I once went to this intoxicating place, and then I recalled a memory ..... So, it also has the function of keeping the memory that has passed away. And these functions can only be realized by photography.

Photography is not a professional and targeted hobby. It is not something that only some people can do, but it is enough to have a camera, a pair of bright eyes and a heart that can discover beauty. There is a saying: "there is no shortage of beauty in life, what is lacking is the eyes that find beauty." So is photography. No matter whether your camera is SLR or professional, no matter how old you are, as long as you can find beauty, even the humble card machine can take amazing photos. For me, I actually love our Nikon film camera more, not to mention that it has some tens of millions of pixels that digital cameras can't catch up with, but the reason why I love it. Film cameras have existed for 100 years. Today, although most people have upgraded and digital cameras have flooded major scenic spots and shopping malls, some people are still "playing with film". Using film means that a roll of film costs more than 20 yuan, 37 photos, and you only have 37 chances. If you fail once, you will pass this time and never come back. You can't "delete" with your fingers, which is equivalent to leaving an ugly photo and making you feel guilty. So whenever I pick up this old camera and prepare to take pictures, I always choose the scene with my eyes first, then choose the angle when I choose the scene, and then put it into the lens with my camera and save it on the film. Guilt disappeared, replaced by the joy of success.

Now going out to take pictures is called collecting wind. My understanding is to collect natural wind with a camera. Everyone can see this wind, but everyone is different. Everyone has a different vision and understanding of the beauty in nature. However, no matter how you understand it, as long as you can keep this moment, you can satisfy others and yourself, and others can appreciate it and yourself.