How to make your photography more artistic?

The subject of artistic photography creation is rich and changeable nature, society and people, which determines that the creative process of artistic photography is full of randomness and contingency, and it cannot be a simple repetition and influence reproduction of some ideas, concepts and skills.

Inspiration is the unexpected result of photographer's observation and thinking, which comes from the objective world of photography observation, generation and photographer's subjective thinking. The rich and changeable objective world can trigger the photographer's creative institute and passion, and such passion punishes the photographer's desire for expression, and then the emergence of inspiration becomes possible. It can be said that the emergence of inspiration is unexpected and reasonable. Inspiration is an important factor to inspire photographers and promote their creation. On the contrary, strong creation will bring new inspiration, and the perfection of artistic photography performance is formed in the process of this interactive encouragement.

The inspiration comes from the photographer's infinite imagination. Browsing all kinds of creative works and other cultures has become a way to cultivate our imagination, and truly grasping inspiration and transforming it into works of art requires the skills and support of artistic accomplishment.

Second, the posing skills

Posing is the most commonly used technique in artistic photography creation. Posing itself is not new, but posing means completely different creative behavior and thinking mode from pure snapshot recording. Compared with the traditional snapshot, it can emphasize the photographer's cultural choice and artistic attitude. To some extent, posing and directing can reduce the technical problems of shooting to zero, and even ask people for help. At this time, the concept director of artistic photography is the copyright owner of the work, not the operator of the camera. The photographer walks directly from behind the camera, not only "disturbing" the object, but even "reshaping" the object. Posing is "fiction", but it corresponds to the true expression of the creator's abstract themes such as personal and collective experiences, complex emotions and surreal content mixed in time and space.

Third, montage collage

There are two main types of montage collage in photography: one is "negative montage", which refers to the imaginative combination of influential materials of different negatives in the same picture, thus forming a new image. The other is "photo montage", which refers to collage and combination of ordinary photos with one exposure (each photo keeps its own complete border). At this time, I care about the relationship between photos and collage principles.

Fourth, virtual statues.

Photography is a rapidly growing medium with the development of science and technology. Every progress and change of science and technology will provide a new space for the expression of photography art, and at the same time, it will also bring a series of new problems about the media itself, such as the dialogue between new technology and photography tradition, the new look and new form of photography under new technology, and the changes in photography judgment and aesthetic standards. With the rapid popularization of digital technology, the above problems have once again become a new proposition in the exploration of photography ontology, and the artistic practice in this area has long been a brand-new field of vision.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) is collocated by sampling.

According to the principle of typology, objects with the same theme or even very similar shapes are photographed and then combined into a chessboard pattern or a group of single photos. This sampling juxtaposition method is often used in artistic photography.

We find that social objects, such as buildings and portraits, are often chosen as the main body in the artistic photography works with juxtaposition, which can avoid natural objects. This is because this method of collection and classification is the result of transplanting the systematics of natural science research into artistic photography. If we directly choose animals and plants as the theme of this kind of works, the result will be very close to the classification catalogue of animals, which is not the scope of our artistic photography.

Six, daub and modify

The images obtained from photographic pictures are solid and clear, with rich tone levels. Even if carefully depicted, manual brushstrokes are difficult to embed in the photographic space, which is random and violent. Especially when the brush strokes are covered with manual traces, this sense of violence is even stronger. Riley's Bedroom in America and Summer Vacation took advantage of this to shoot a lot of seemingly cruel selfies, and Japanese Nobuyoshi Araki also shot many works in the same way.