Introduction to humanistic photography skills

Introduction to humanistic photography skills

In the circle of photography, sugared water tablets, landscapes and portraits are talked about by people, but there are such a group of photographers who walk in the streets and even in front of dilapidated houses, raising their cameras with broad visual knowledge, sensitive and unique careful observation, and faithfully restoring the branches and ends of life for us. Their works reflect people's living conditions and even their essential characteristics, including local customs and various living conditions. They are humanistic photographers. Humanistic photography belongs to documentary photography. Photographers pursue the purest records, and they all love truth.

Many people say that it is really not easy for China to make a good film. This kind of thinking may lead people into a situation where they can't take good photos but have to find reasons. In life in China, everyone can't live without their own feelings and emotions. It's just a matter of expression. The so-called ability to take good photos abroad is only a superficial visual difference. Photographers are still not integrated into the surrounding environment, and it is not necessary to take good photos only when traveling. A good photographer can find beautiful things that are not three meters away from him, but it is not necessarily a strange environment. Some people say that taking good photos because we didn't travel is actually an excuse. Our curiosity is not confined to foreign countries. In fact, watching those foreign scenic and humanistic films, the biggest feeling and emotion is how you feel about people's lives, what they are like in their society, and how they express their thoughts. It's not just the scenery you haven't seen, or the photos of strangers.

What are the feelings and emotions of humanistic documentary? Just like the bowl of sour soup noodles your mother gave you when you came home from work late at night. Do you care about cooking skills or the taste of noodles? Expose the truth and return to your life. You have your own feelings and emotions about everything around you, and you will take them with you wherever you go. Therefore, as long as your feelings and emotions are in your own photos, it doesn't matter what the scenery in the photos is, just how many places you went and how many scenery you changed. Cameras and techniques will not change, we are only looking for our emotions and feelings about things. It has nothing to do with composition exposure, whether it is digital or film. Shooting is also rhythmic, just like playing basketball. Why can't Kobe McGrady always guard against his own unexplained jump shot? The reason is that they work with the rhythm after the fake action. So, when I delete the waste film, I am also looking for the reason why I want to delete it. I used to think that composition, light and shadow were not in place. Today, I had an epiphany and found one of the possible reasons. Because I didn't grasp the rhythm, I didn't express the emotional feelings of filming in place, and I didn't press the shutter at the decisive moment that I should have.

Seize the moment that attacks your heart. Actually, there are many places in photography. It is a way to express your feelings about things at that time or a state of mind at present with various rhythms or rhythms out of context. Photography contains too much content, but it is actually a reflection of life. Whether a photo is good or not can't be judged only by its composition. Theme and theme are the essence of humanistic films.

Composition is not unimportant, but in front of the subject and the subject, composition and light and shadow are pale and powerless. A good movie is a humanistic movie based on human nature and experience, which embodies human nature. Photography is a personal matter. Everyone sees things from different angles and expresses them in different ways. If we must impose our own aesthetic standards on others, it is inevitable that there will be no conflict. The essence of photography is an expression, and any technology and skill serve it. At a certain level of communication, we often wonder why we should shoot this film, not how. So this is where we communicate. It should not be just a washing or later method, but too many views on society and life. In fact, how to think a photo is a good photo is very simple. Personally, I think there are only two words: tempted.

The truest expression reveals that a good movie has nothing to do with curiosity.

Today, when I was buying tickets with my friends in the subway, I saw a man squatting in the socket in the corner of the automatic ticket vending machine, with a happy smile on his face. I was very moved by texting his girlfriend, so I quietly walked over and took a picture of the back with my mobile phone, because I couldn't take the front. When I was waiting for the bus at the station, my friend saw a man squatting in the corner playing with his mobile phone, so he called me. Hey, you like the style of shooting, go and shoot it quickly. I am speechless. It's not my style to photograph the curiosity in the crowd, and it's not just the suffering in the crowd. What makes me press the shutter is what moves me. When it rang, I got off the subway. My friend saw a man pushing a tricycle up the steps, so he stopped me and took a photo quickly. But before he called me, I had already run to help the driver push him up the steps. In fact, taking pictures of human nature is not to capture the sufferings of the people at the bottom of society, but only to call on more people to lend a helping hand when they need help. As for taking pictures or not, it's not that important. I took this photo because I was very moved and wanted to record this moment. In fact, the moment I helped others was a sublimation of my feelings about the photos I didn't take. Don't miss any details. The most natural revelation.

Recording the real existence photography should be lonely, a baptism and expression of one's own mind, rather than pretending to deceive oneself. You don't lack a good photo, what you lack is a warm and cold attitude towards the world. Life is simple and simple. I've been photographing people on the way to and from work, and I've met many different people. There are people who work hard to make a living everywhere in society. I once saw an old lady with wrinkled hands selling her own bean sprouts on the stairs of an underground street in cold weather, an old man who ate instant noodles in the middle of the market in winter, an old man who squatted in the corner of the market with his grandson on his back and washed dishes, and an old man who struggled forward with a trailer full of cartons several times larger than himself. Every time Tong Qu takes a street shot, he is particularly sour when he sees people struggling for their livelihood. Most of these photos are not taken, because it is enough to take them with your heart, and you will constantly remind yourself to be content and grateful.

Looking for the corner we have forgotten, I also have some personal experiences to communicate with you about exposure. Photography photography, shooting light and shadow. First of all, you have to understand the light and shadow yourself, and then expose it manually. Automatic exposure and autofocus machines are difficult for me to operate. I need to consider where to measure the light and what the exposure is like when shooting. I need to find the right focus and wait for the machine to focus. And the exposure is not necessarily so well controlled, so the focus of shooting at that time left the scene. Understanding correct exposure and accurate exposure are two different things. So try to expose it manually and don't rely on the machine. Machines can give you convenience, but that will never be you.

Behind every photo is a story about using a fixed-focus lens as much as possible. When you see the object to be photographed, you need to raise your camera and aim for a long time. Looking at the composition in the camera field of vision, the reflection is always slower than others. Memorize the fixed focus frame line in your eyes. When your eyes see it, you just need to go to the right position and shoot it intuitively, so you can think about composition in your mind.

It doesn't really matter whether the photos are good or bad. The important thing is that you are happy because you took pictures. I am also very happy, because I didn't take a photo, but I felt my heart. Because photography is easy from intuition to deliberate, and it is difficult to return to intuition from deliberate. Restore real life and reveal the emotion at that moment. ;