The expression method of creativity in artistic photography

From Niepce's struggling to capture the first dim image to the tap of our fingers, the progress and popularization of technology have brought us into the era of national photography. With the increasing popularity of cameras and the increasing number of photographers, our lives are full of pictures. How to make your work stand out has become a very important quality. A good idea is creativity. Reasonable use of skills, more creativity, and reasonable artistic presentation of our subjective creativity in our own photos can make our photos stand out and the camera level can be improved and developed. Let's take a look!

First, the definition of artistic photography

Artistic photography, in short, is the photographic expression of artistic emotion and artistic concept. Artistic photography is a category and a branch of the whole photography system, which is different from other non-artistic photography, such as news photography. Its definition is: to express feelings, create artistic conception and convey ideas with artistic concepts and methods and photographic media as the working mode.

Secondly, creativity is very important in excellent artistic photography.

(A) the creativity of artistic photography is to express ideas.

Art comes from life and is higher than life. The main means of artistic creation is the processing of objective things, and artists usually have creative thinking and creative observation methods different from ordinary people. Their constant creativity can always bring amazing beauty to everyone. In order to meet the needs of artistic photography expression, it is often necessary to deal with the concrete skillfully and creatively, so that the photographer's artistic feeling can gallop, so creativity serves to express artistic thoughts in artistic photography.

(B) the importance of creativity in artistic photography

From the development history of artistic photography, we can see that from the earliest imitation photography to the later surrealism, from the early attachment to painting to the inability to become an art independently, and now to the vigorous development, innovation is the engine of boosting. Nowadays, any feasible artistic photography masterpiece expresses the artist's ideological innovation through formal creativity, opens the minds of artists and the public through creative works, touches people's hearts, and brings aesthetic feeling or pleasant artistic charm to viewers. If works are the media for artists to exchange ideas with the public, then creativity is the catalyst to improve the efficiency of the media.

Third, the summary of artistic photography creation methods

(1) abstract subject

The abstraction of the subject is to highlight one or two characteristics of the subject, while simplifying, weakening or omitting other characteristics of the subject, thus abstracting the subject from the complexity.

Photographic artists in artistic photography express their aesthetic feelings and ideas with photographic works as the carrier. And this kind of carrier is realized through the medium of some intention of the subject. However, in real life, the concrete images of many things cannot be directly transformed into images. What is needed in this process is to abstract the concrete image and turn the image that does not meet our expression needs into an image that can serve our expression. In this process, we need to fully understand the image, and then make necessary processing and selection, which may make the image abstract.

In the series "Spirit/Sex of Flowers" by Wang Xiaohui, an artist living in Germany, various flowers were photographed at close range, and her flowers were regarded as full of symbolic meaning of life. In these works, only the shape of a certain part of the flower is extracted, and then the specific image of the flower is abstracted, so that I can see the images of sex, life and femininity from these flowers, and then express her artistic aesthetics and artistic concepts through these images.

(b) "two old and one new"

"Two old and one new" is a method widely used in creative methods. Specifically, in artistic photography, it is a new method that combines two or more unrelated subjects into one. Jerry Youseman is a famous contemporary American photographer. Good at darkroom surreal photography, using synthesis, superposition, positive and negative image inversion device and other techniques. He skillfully changed people's normal visual habits and the proportion of images through very complicated darkroom technology, thus creating an amazing and grotesque world. In Time and Space of Dreams, a sleeping woman, Jerry Youseman, combines her clenched fists through the curve of her wrist and waist. The clenched fist is like an oppressive nightmare, as if a woman is struggling to get out of a horrible dream but can't move.

Another master who adopted the method of "changing the old into the new" completed his works through the early stage. In order to call on people to support environmental protection, American photographer Thomas shot a series of works called Dream Plastics. He made headdresses and clothes with all kinds of non-decomposable plastic kitchenware, and created works full of fantasy, futuristic and fashionable sense. The plastic utensils in the work include plastic wrap, disposable knives and forks, straws, aluminum foil, drinking water bottles and so on. What we throw away at will in our daily life has become gorgeous fashion under Thomas' creativity to express our environmental protection thoughts. Through his creativity, he turned his work into a powerful bridge and connected him with the audience.

(C) Grasp the design elements

The composition of artistic photography often considers lines, contours, shapes, textures and colors, and creative composition can instantly transform the works. Peter Turner is a master photographer who pays great attention to design elements. His skill in using colors and geometric shapes in composition is superb, which makes any other photographer daunting. In Peter Turner's photographic works, we can often be surprised to see unexpected color collocation and contrast, warm and cold tones, strong but harmonious color collision, ingenious composition and high color saturation, resulting in a strong sense of graphics and design.

Four. conclusion

Creativity is the basic concept of creative photography. Without creativity, there is no photography. A work without creative thinking cannot be an infectious work. Creative photography is a pioneer in the field of photography. The forms and techniques it explores provide a broader world for photographic creation.