What is the essence of photography?

In fact, Nianqing is an unusual blogger in Yukiko Iwai. She likes photography and writing, and the original photography and writing works published in her blog are excellent among non-professionals. Jiangnan just discussed a problem with Nianqing today. Jiangnan is a lover of words and used to be a photographer, but he is not a photographer. Although he likes photography since 1980, his cameras range from 120, Phoenix 205B and Seagull 300 SLR produced in the 1960s to several digital cards, digital SLR and so on. Of course, he can't forget the students of our university photography association developing photos and cameras in the darkroom. Jiangnan still remembers 1988' s record about the essence of photography in the textbook "New York Institute of Photography" bought from Xi 'an Zhonglou Bookstore: it is said that the essence of photography is to record the beautiful things you see. As for using mechanical camera or digital camera, it doesn't matter whether the post-production uses ordinary darkroom technology or digital darkroom technology. The key is how to reproduce the beauty you see instantly. The process is not important, but the result is important. Jiangnan is a literary lover. Let's start with literature. If a writer wants to write something, he must first think about what to write and then start writing. Photography is different. Often, you hold the camera first, then find something to shoot, and find the composition and ideas in your mind before you can freeze it into film. Jiangnan understands that photography was originally designed to leave memories, but with the changes of the times, photography has become an art, a profession and an entertainment. Cameras are used to take pictures and record romantic nights, talented people and beautiful women, as well as society and life. It varies from person to person, and hobbies decide! People recognize it as a work. Otherwise, it's called a photo! Writers tell stories, convey feelings and express ideas according to different combinations, and photography is similar. The image of the world is its material, which can be recorded and freehand brushwork according to different combinations. Everyone's personality and experience are different, and the accumulated sensory experience is also different. If you want to impress people with your works, you must have profound life experience in order to accumulate rich sensory experience and impress others. All arts are the same. Photography is only a form and means of expression, which depends on the photographer's concept, comprehensive cultural background and artistic accomplishment, and also depends on what kind of ideological and emotional tendencies you want to express through this means; The depth of your perception of the scene depends on whether you take a work or a photo. Some people sum up that it is playing with equipment in the final analysis, and Jiangnan also thinks that it makes sense. Just look at the development of cameras. An improved version of cameras and lenses is not only for less distortion, lighter dark corners, higher resolution, more realistic color reproduction and less noise. In short, realistic images are the tireless pursuit of camera users and manufacturers. What is the essence of photography? Different times have different connotations and society is developing. Can you say that photography is the kind that uses film? Can it be said that shooting the original film directly is photography? Can it be said that the film made is only to express the connotation, and the purpose of not winning the prize is photography? Just have fun. Whether you play with equipment or digital film in the later stage, if you must freeze on the so-called "essence" of photography. From the origin and types of photography, Jiangnan believes that the essence of photography is the true recording and reproduction of objective things. Whether it is high-end scientific experimental photography, rigorous judicial photography or common news photography, it is a true record and reproduction of objective things. The artistic photography we play is also rooted in life, reflecting life, higher than life and originating from life. Some old photos with cultural value, which have won national and world prizes in recent years, are good examples. The essence of photography is to record and reproduce the history of realization, and its main body is the function of the camera. The purpose of photography varies from person to person, and its subject is human thinking, and different thinking will produce different purposes. Just as the essence of eating is to fill the stomach, the purpose of eating varies from person to person. Different people have different purposes, and the same person has different purposes at different times. Nature shows a kind of natural beauty, but photography is artistic beauty. Only through proper capture and discovery by photographers can our works show the beauty of nature. Jiangnan believes that real photography is life, recording things or people around you, and a photo is a story. Photography is also an act, the key is what can such an act bring us? Pleasure, emotion, happiness, sadness, pain, expectation, hope and association. Photography itself is a part of life. Whether it is success, dullness or decline, the key is our love for it. As long as we love it, it will always accompany us faithfully. An expert on the Internet once said a famous saying: Pressing the shutter has the feeling of ejaculation! Jiangnan admire, hehe! Miss, don't shoot Jiangnan bricks