In a good photograph, should the content come first, or the form?

A good work must be based on content and form as a foil. An excellent and experienced photographer can capture the content and at the same time control the composition to highlight the content, making the picture more concise and more expressive! Therefore, you should practice more to train your eyesight, train your ability to predict unexpected events, and effectively seize wonderful moments!

For photographic works, the content must determine the form. First of all, only when you have the subject to photograph can you decide what form to use. For example, in landscape photography, only the beauty of famous mountains, rivers, spring flowers, and autumn moon can inspire you to use what form to express them. Use vertical images to express tallness, and use horizontal images to express breadth. This is the most basic form of expression for photographic objects. For example, if we want to express high-rise buildings, we should adopt the form of vertical composition; if we want to express the breadth of grassland, we should adopt the form of horizontal composition. And you can take wide-angle, ultra-wide-angle or panoramic shots as needed. The following set of photos is a set of photos of the sea of ??clouds in Huangshan Mountain that I took on July 1, 2019 in the West Sea of ??Huangshan Mountain. Depending on the subject, different forms of expression such as vertical composition and horizontal composition are used.

Highlighting the theme is the soul of a work.

The content of the work should come first,

the form and content should assist.

Unique and of good quality,

The sun is good even in the clouds and fog.

The form of all literary and artistic works serves the content, and the same is certainly true for photography. The content is always the ideological theme of the work, and the form is always the means to express the theme of the photographic work. A good photographic work must be a perfect unity of ideological content and expression, and complement each other. Therefore, a good photograph must have content first.

The above-mentioned superficial knowledge that belongs to me may not necessarily be appropriate. In front of teachers and friends, it may also belong to the best in the class. It’s ridiculous!

I think a good photographic work should be highly unified in content and form, and the two are complementary to each other. Form must serve content. Without content, form has no meaning; content must rely on form. Without form, content cannot exist.

The two should be opposites and unified. In news photography reporting, content should come first. In artistic photography, form can be greater than content, but its unity must also be considered. Only in this way can the work have a kind of inspiration and enlightenment.

Content should come first, and form should serve the content. For a good photograph, you must first look at its content and what kind of theme it highlights. Only when the theme is highlighted can it catch the audience's attention! Cause everyone to scream!

For a good photograph, under normal circumstances, you should first conceive the theme and content, and then consider the form in which to create it. But sometimes you just have the inspiration and passion to create, and you can use your own customary expression methods and feelings to complete an immortal masterpiece. You can first create with inspiration and then consider the theme. For example, Zhang Xu's wild cursive calligraphy, in a drunken state, probably did not think about the content in advance before considering a certain form to create it. At that time, he should have improvised and relied on the catalytic effect of drunk essence to throw away all constraints and achieve a lifetime masterpiece of wild cursive calligraphy. When I woke up from drunkenness, I never felt this way again, and I couldn't write the original work.

The same goes for photography. When you see something beautiful that makes you passionate about creation, will you study the content first and then express it? If you are not posing for a photo, you may encounter it by chance. In a rapidly changing moment, if you miss it, you will not be able to do it again. You must make a prompt decision and capture the photo based on your feeling. Therefore, after you have a solid foundation, you should not be constrained by certain technical restrictions when creating. Content does not necessarily come first and form comes later. I think it can sometimes be the other way around, and it's okay, but it's not set in stone.