Observation and expression methods of artistic photography

As a new art form, photography is inextricably linked with many traditional art forms in its development. Photography art and traditional art have the same production process, that is, the "reproduction" and "expression" of cognitive objects and social life. Come and have a look with me!

Photography is not only a plastic art, but also a visual art, and the development of anything can not be separated from its breeding soil. Photography, as the product of social industrial civilization, can not be separated from the society at that time, nor can it be separated from the social situation at that time. Therefore, photography will inevitably leave a deep imprint of the times. The development of any human civilization has its forward vane, that is, thought. The modern history of China is a process of rapid ideological change, and photography is undoubtedly influenced by this ideological change. Photography is the product of the perfect combination of science, technology and art. Since there are technical components, the progress of camera technology has undoubtedly promoted the development of photography. So "documentary photography" and "artistic photography" appeared in the society.

First, artistic photography.

(A) the basic concept of art

Art is the product of social life in the artist's mind. For an artist, art is a way and process to find love, and it is also the mark of the continuous development of his own artistic ideas and concepts.

(2) Analysis of artistic photography

First of all, we should know what "artistry" is. Artistry refers to the accuracy, vividness and perfection of the form, structure and expression skills achieved by literary and artistic works through images to reflect life and express thoughts and feelings. Photography originated from painting. In the first few decades, photography mainly imitated the experience of painting. Throughout the history of artistic photography, photographers who imitate painting actually want to prove that photography can also create works like painting. However, at this stage, photography has not been recognized. It is generally believed that photos made by physical and chemical means can't be called art, only things made by hand can be called art, so many photographers pay special attention to the picture effect of photographic pictures when making photos, which makes the photos unreal, and its essence is a kind of painting creation by means of photography. It was not until the end of 19 and the beginning of the 20th century that the appearance of pure shadow photography changed people's ideas. Pure shadow photography puts forward that "only through pure truth can perfect beauty be obtained". Through their pictures, people find that the beauty in the original life is everywhere.

(C) observation-the core of visual thinking

1. Viewing and Associating Visual Thinking-Creative Intention: Make an overall observation of the choice of artistic images and the habits (ways and means) in the process of observation and arrangement.

2. Morphological arrangement of light and shadow and general observation of visual organization.

3. Observation on the visual pattern layout of morphological extraction and the organizational structure of thinking choice.

4. Perception and observation of visual transmission of timbre.

5. Extract the enhanced observation of visual center.

6. Thinking observation of visual perception imagination.

7. Purification observation of the whole and main rotation.

8. Contact observation of details and internal structure of texture.

9. Pay attention to capture and observe the flash of the shape in the space change.

10. Rhythm observation of visual stop point under immediate consciousness.

1 1. Inspection and observation of spatial composition and formal style.

12. Visual design in observation-the freedom of overall visual thinking and the deepening of artistic creation inspiration.

It can be seen that the moment of artistic expression is intercepted from the fleeting time and space movement, and it is endowed with eternal and clear meaning of existence, which makes the "observation" of art surpass the most acute "eyes". This is the starting point of observation and creation or creation and observation.

(4) Expression method

In addition to paying attention to the control of artistic details and contingency in art, it also has artistic characteristics, and the documentary and artistry of photography often exist in unity with each other. Photographic artistic creation is the process and destination of artistic reflection and expression of life. That is, in the process of creation, we should analyze, study and master the thinking mode, observation method, instantaneous materialization means, artistic processing skills and other theoretical technologies in all aspects of the process. In other words, photography is also the premise and destination of artists' improvisation of life.

(E) "Reproduction" in the art of photography

At the beginning, photography only existed as an auxiliary tool of traditional art forms such as painting, but why can photography break away from the auxiliary function of traditional art forms and form a new art category in just over a hundred years? This is precisely because photography has the ability to record the truth of objective things and the ability to record the truth intuitively and quickly, which is unmatched by other art forms.

Authenticity and timeliness are the basis of news photography, and these two points just confirm the "reproduction" in the process of photographic art creation. In the process of news photography creation, the creator doesn't have much time to think about the shooting angle, composition form and the state of the subject, so he must give up thinking and waiting, and it is even more impossible to ask the same news moment to happen again at a later time, so he tries his best to record the most real moment at the most appropriate time. Moreover, in the whole creative process, the creator needs to have certain shooting experience, that is, the foresight and inertia of the shooting moment. No matter whether the most touching moment occurs in the early, middle or late stage of the theme climax, we can accurately and effectively grasp it with experience, and finally reproduce the whole news event in the photographic works and show it to the audience in the most authentic and fastest way, so that the news photographic works can achieve a certain mass effect.

(6) the "expression" in photography.

In people's social life, conscious "people", as the main body of social form, often add their own subjective consciousness more or less in the process of perceiving the activities around them, which makes the original real objects deform in the process of people's thinking communication. This kind of deformation is exactly our thinking reconstruction of objective things, and it is a tempering and sublimation of self-thinking consciousness. Since photography was invented, many photographers have been exploring the possibility of its development. From the middle of19th century to the 20th century, photographers constantly put forward new ideas to win the recognition of the art world. How to promote photography from painting to a higher stage is the direction that many photographers are striving for.

As an externalized form of aesthetic consciousness, artistic photography emphasizes creativity and uniqueness and pays attention to aesthetic value; As a materialized form of humanistic spirit, social documentary photography emphasizes documentary and sociality and historical value.

The concept of modern photography has been found in unconventional modern artistic language with a brand-new angle, posture and intention in the process from artistic reproduction to artistic expression of individuality and ideas, from typification of theme materials of individuality and ideas to mastery of genres such as documentaries, records and documents, and from life entity to formal mode, which sublimates the transmission mode of individual visual psychology. This is the movement and development of thinking in images in modern art, and it is a thinking process of constantly observing and catching the spark of soul. This random and hazy creative mentality and technique has become a distinctive feature of modern photography, as if there is an invisible hidden line of visual art, and together with the subjective control of shooting creativity, the creativity of technical expression and composition, the originality, inspiration and induction of modern artistic consciousness and concept, it has reached the other side of the subjective effect of modern artistic photography from the objective atmosphere of the subject.