Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - How to appreciate photographic works?

How to appreciate photographic works?

The composition should be novel, colorful, well matched with cold and warm, prominent in theme, strong in the times, properly used in light sources, distinct in layers, and well handled in photo special effects.

Photographic works are works of art that photographers or amateurs depict objective things such as nature and people for people to appreciate through inspiration and photography. Photographic works include wedding photos, art photos, children photos, advertising works, maternity photos, family photos and so on.

Generally speaking, people take pictures with visible light, and cameras are the most commonly used. Because of different scenes and uses, cameras have many classifications. Generally speaking, a camera must have several basic components to ensure the exposure process, including: photosensitive medium, imaging lens, exposure time control mechanism, film cassette, storage medium, electronic photoreceptor and electronic storage medium.

still-life photography

Still life photography, compared with figure photography and landscape photography, takes inanimate, artificially movable or combined objects as the performance object. Mostly take industrial or handmade products, natural inanimate objects and so on as the shooting theme.

On the basis of truly reflecting the inherent characteristics of the subject, the subject is represented as a photographic work with artistic beauty through creative ideas and photography means such as composition, light, tone and color. It's called still life photography.

artistic photography

With the development, people continue to add artistic elements to photography and begin to produce artistic photography. The difference between it and documentary photography lies in the artistic level, but there is no absolute boundary. The effect of artistic photography is more beautiful, because it requires not only technology, but also the time, place and angle of shooting.

Ink photography

Like traditional ink painting, ink photography works appearing on the market now can be divided into landscapes, flowers and birds, and artistic conception according to the subject matter, which corresponds to landscape painting and flower-and-bird painting in Chinese painting; According to the technique and artistic conception, it can be divided into abstract and concrete, which corresponds to the freehand brushwork and meticulous painting of Chinese painting.

Good ink and wash photography works should modify the original photos as little as possible, which tests the photographer's composition and ability to capture light and shadow.