What is lens language?

The lens is to use the lens to express our meaning like language. We can usually see the photographer's intention through the pictures captured by the camera, because we can feel what the photographer wants to express through the lens from the subject it captures and the changes in the picture. This is the so-called "my lens can speak". ”, which is commonly referred to as “lens language” in the world of images.

Although the expression method is different from ordinary speech, the purpose is the same, so there are no rules for lens language. As long as you use the lens to express your meaning, no matter what lens method is used, it can be called Lens language.

According to the different scene distance and angle of view, it is generally divided into:

1. Extreme long shot: extremely distant shot landscape, with characters as small as ants.

2. Long shot: a far-reaching lens landscape, the characters only occupy a small position in the picture. Based on different scene distances, broad vision can be divided into three levels: large vision, long vision, and small vision.

3. Large panorama: a picture that includes the entire subject and the surrounding environment. It is usually used to introduce the environment of film and television works, so it is called the widest lens.

4. Panorama: A film and television picture that captures the entire body of a character or a smaller scene, which is equivalent to the landscape within the "stage frame" of a drama or song and dance theater. In the panorama, you can clearly see the character's movements and the environment.

5. Small panorama: The actors stand "upright on the sky and on the ground", much smaller than the panorama, while maintaining relatively complete specifications.

6. Mid-shot: Commonly known as "seven-quarter shot", it refers to a shot that captures the part above the calf of a character, or a shot used to shoot a scene equivalent to this. It is a common shot for performance scenes.

7. Half-length view: commonly known as "bust", refers to the view from the waist to the head, also known as "mid-close shot".

8. Close-up shot: refers to the film and television footage taken above the chest, and is sometimes used to show a certain part of the scene.

9. Close-up: refers to the camera capturing objects at a very close distance. Usually, the head portrait above the human body's shoulders is used as a framing reference to highlight a certain part of the human body, or corresponding object details, scenery details, etc.