What does ink-and-wash photography mean?

Ink photography, as its name implies, is to take pictures of ink style with a camera. In a narrow sense, it refers to black-and-white photos with black, white and gray as the main tone and with the meaning of Chinese painting. In a broad sense, ink style photography refers to all photos that imitate the effect of Chinese painting, including black and white and color. Since it is an imitation of Chinese painting, its classification can also learn from the classification of Chinese painting. According to the subject matter, it is divided into landscape photography with ink style and flowers and birds with ink style; According to the style of photos, they can be divided into freehand brushwork and realism. Ink-and-wash landscape photography, as shown on the right, is the work "Hua Ting Into the Cuiwei" by master photographer Lang Jingshan. This is a typical landscape photography in ink and wash style. Photographers use multiple exposure technology to combine distant mountains with nearby pavilions and add white clouds in front of the picture, making the whole scene like a fairyland.

Ink landscape photography is born out of China landscape painting, emphasizing the combination of reality and reality. Ordinary photographers like to shoot the sea of clouds, because the sea of clouds itself has the taste of Chinese painting. Ink painting is a unique form of traditional painting art in China. Use the shade of ink to express the distance and density of objects. Although the color is not rich, the shade of ink gives people a quiet and distant artistic conception. Another element of ink painting is composition. China pays attention to composition in his paintings. An important method is to "leave blank". In other words, the picture is not full of objects. Use white to express artistic conception. It is very important to leave the ink effect blank. How to do this in shooting? Try to keep the background of the photo clean. You can blur the lens, or you can put something like white cloth behind the object. Of course, if you are shooting scenery, then the sea of clouds is the best way to leave blank space. If you are shooting flowers and birds, you can use the sky as the background. In short, make sure the background is clean. Convenient for post-processing.