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How to look at pictures in photography performance skills

Please note that I use "reading" here, not creating or shooting. Reading is appreciation. Appreciation is useless. In order to avoid the meaning of pondering for a while, concentrate on mastering the correct and basic reading methods. As far as creation or shooting and appreciation are concerned, it is only two sides of the same thing: creation is to provide works for people to appreciate, but how to create without appreciation? Therefore, almost any creation begins with learning and appreciation. Let's have a look at the picture 1. This is a photo taken in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A policeman and several residents are leaving the scene of the fire with a light motorcycle. To complete this narrative picture, we can analyze it this way: a group of characters combine their behaviors to form the main body of the picture. This is the first image that people should read after they get the photo. It tells people a very clear plot: running on a motorcycle; Streets and burning buildings are the background. This clear background clearly complements the reason for running away in case of fire. Macroscopically, this is a very neat narrative, and only two sets of images are used to successfully complete the narrative task. Generally speaking, we require photographers to take such neat photos. The cleaner it is, the easier it is for people to see at a glance, and it is not sloppy at all. Just like writing an article, no one likes Rory Rosso's article, and the more it goes down, the more confusing it becomes, which greatly weakens the narrative power of the work. Agility is not equal to wealth. In this group of people who are the main body, clothes account for different identities: police and residents; Expressions and actions confess the tense and urgent mood; The locked motorcycle explains why they are lifting instead of pushing, and this car is not theirs ... The plot is detailed here. As far as this work is concerned, the main content is the same, but for excellent photographers, they can always find more details in the shortest time and successfully reflect them on the screen when shooting (see other reference works). In fact, life itself is made up of countless details. If these details are not disturbed, they will naturally form an orderly relationship around a certain subject (center). The order in this relationship is difficult to achieve through directing and manipulating, so people emphasize snapshot or sneak shot. On the other hand, the details in life don't just exist around a certain theme. If there is no connection between two different subjects, then the details in their "system" may not be connected. If you accidentally take a picture, it will form what I call garbage or interfere with irrelevant pictures (except for intentional use). Obviously, these irrelevant images are what we need to avoid. Good photographers have many ways to deal with messy scenes. Taking this work as an example, the photographer chose a method closer to the subject (crouching there and waiting with a small wide-angle lens), using the principle of being as small as possible and the means of filling the picture by the subject to strengthen the plot of the subject and block irrelevant images and redundant images. Because of this, the picture looks very neat. Low-angle shooting is also a very effective way to purify the picture, and the fireworks in the sky just effectively create a fire atmosphere. The revelation of useful details is as important as the purification of the picture. If the details that should be seen by people are blocked, or the exposure is not in place, which makes people feel uncomfortable, I am also called garbage. The most important thing to avoid is to cover your face. In most cases, the face is the most important window to explain the atmosphere or inner world. A good photographer can shoot every face in place when there are many people on the scene. The same is true of other details, such as holes in clothes, scars on hands, a subtle movement, a useful object and so on. It should be emphasized that there are many ways to highlight it; There are many ways to avoid it. If there is a special system theory, we won't do it.