How to make your photos have distinct themes and prominent themes?

How to make your photos with distinct themes and prominent subjects is a very important issue in photography. Photography is a plastic art, and modeling needs a clear theme. If you want a clear theme, sometimes you have to highlight the theme. Even in landscape photography, although there is no directional theme like documentary or portrait, there is still a relatively prominent theme or theme group, which makes your photography vivid and vivid. Modeling, creating something with style, is layout and composition. This paper mainly summarizes the composition, lighting, tone, light tone and color. It is inevitable that there is personal prejudice. Please criticize and correct me.

First, composition The so-called composition is to organize the layout of the scene in the lens. Mainly depends on the angle, viewpoint and framing range of photography. The angle of view is mainly the positional relationship between the photographer and the scene in three-dimensional space when looking at things, such as how far, how high, and how the direction is. This is the most basic problem of observing things and photography, that is, to grasp the powerful and favorable terrain. Determine the direction of the viewpoint angle, and then choose the range of the lens, that is, which part of the thing to choose and which aspect to highlight. This depends not only on the focal length of the lens, but also on the openness of the photographic environment. When the photographic environment is open, the freedom of framing is high, and vice versa. How to choose the viewpoint is not discussed in detail, but how to lay out the scenery in the lens, just like how to paint on the canvas.

Personally, no matter which side of the scene you choose, you should choose the most distinctive part of the scene to express it. A scene or a thing, no matter in what direction, will have a most distinctive feature, and the purpose of modeling can be achieved by expressing the characteristics of this thing in this direction. Secondly, everything or scenery has a so-called direction problem, at least where you observe or by convention. For example, people, when we face forward, will be divided into front, side, back, up, down and so on. Subdivision will appear front side, right front side, left back side, right back side and so on. Head down, head up, lean forward, lean back, lean back and so on.

The most basic composition methods are geometric center composition method and "tic-tac-toe" composition method of golden section point. Geometric center composition method is to arrange the subject in the center of the picture. This composition method is mainly used for the composition of subjects with geometric symmetry left and right, such as buildings with geometric symmetry left and right and up and down. Generally, subjects with left and right symmetry are often arranged at the left and right center points, and subjects with up and down symmetry are arranged at the upper and lower center points. The composition of the word "well" is to arrange the main body on the four golden points of the word "well" according to the orientation of the main body. These two kinds of composition are traditional basic composition methods. Because the golden section composition is common, it is sometimes used when shooting symmetrical subjects. For example, when the subject is symmetrical, sometimes the main performance part or the main weight of the subject, that is, the visual focus (sometimes called the visual interest point), is arranged at the golden section point with the left, right, up and down centers, and so is the subject or visual center that is symmetrical up and down. These two kinds of compositions are traditional basic composition methods, which are introverted. In addition to symmetry, there is also a balanced composition, that is, the main body and the foil seem to feel the balance between left and right in the picture layout, giving people a sense of stability.

Taking people as the main body, for example, my personal approach is to put people in a three-dimensional space, which is a cylindrical space. I only consider the left-right relationship here, and the upper-lower relationship can be modified with reference to the left-right relationship. This cylinder takes the center of the picture as the center and the left and right golden sections as the radius. A standing person assumes that he is at the edge of a cylinder and his face is facing the central axis of the cylinder. When he faces you in different directions, he can be considered to have rotated to different positions on the cylinder, and when he faces you and turns his back on you, it can be assumed that the cylinder will rotate people to this position, so when composing music, people will be in the center. When a person faces left or right, his face is facing the central axis of the picture, so that the cylinder will turn him to the far left or right. When people look at you sideways from left to right, assuming that the cylinder will turn people to the position formed with you, how many phases will people's layout shift before they feel stable and balanced. The bigger the front of a person faces you, the closer it is to the central axis, and the maximum value faces you. The smaller the head is facing you, the more it deviates from the central axis. The maximum is completely on your side, on the left or right edge of the cylinder, which is the golden section.

This is just my personal composition method. Sometimes I can't completely follow this principle in the process of shooting. Sometimes it will be considered comprehensively because of many factors such as the subject's action line of sight. In most cases, I just generally follow this principle. When this is a single person, other aspects of landscape composition can be flexibly used with reference to this composition method. Different subjects or main visual centers will have different composition methods. For example, we can follow this principle or method to take a panoramic view of people. If it is a close-up or close-up, the main body or focus of the performance is no longer the expression of people or the eyes of people, so this is just a personal general method. When the subject and focus are not single, but there is a subject and a companion, both the subject and the companion should be taken into account in the comprehensive layout, so that the imaginary cylinder will no longer follow the golden section position relationship and rely on its own feelings to determine and arrange. The above mainly considers and explains two basic composition methods in traditional composition. In addition to symmetry, balance and golden section, there are many kinds of "wells", such as ring, S-shape and triangle. In addition to symmetry and balance, there are relations such as setting off, contrast and echo. These are the layout and relationships that are paid more attention to in traditional composition.

Traditional composition is mainly the introverted pursuit of symmetry, balance and smoothness of the picture, which forms a kind of harmony between the scenes inside the picture and between the scenes and the environment. The whole picture looks like a complete and self-contained world. This kind of composition is called traditional conservative composition. The antonym of conservative composition is open composition. The so-called open composition is to break the traditional composition way of pursuing symmetry, stability, balance, self-contained and self-contained system, and pursue communication inside and outside the screen. The picture space is open, which is a composition method that takes into account the viewer's personal feelings and imagination space. This composition emphasizes the relationship between the picture world and the world outside the picture, emphasizes the interactive relationship between the picture and the viewer, and considers the right and consciousness of the viewer's participation, which is the humanization of the recent art theory. According to the reception aesthetics in literary theory, a work of art can only be completed with the participation of the appreciator. Different appreciation levels and tastes of the appreciators lead to different connotations of the works. Therefore, the author can't impose his appreciation interests and values on the appreciator, and can't force the appreciator to accept the interests and values expressed by the author, and ask the appreciator to interpret and reconstruct the work. Therefore, open composition often takes into account the relationship between subject and audience, picture space and real space, and the form often does not follow the symmetry, balance and fluency of traditional composition, and pursues a nature without subjective intervention. The theme of expression often has no direction, and the theme idea is ambiguous and vague.

Therefore, composition is a very important aspect of photography, the commander-in-chief of other performance elements and the soul factor. Almost all other performance elements can only be shown when they are related to composition. Therefore, composition is the most fundamental in photography, so if you want to make your own photography theme distinct, you must work hard on composition to make the theme or focus of photography more distinct and prominent. A photographic work, if the composition has distinct characteristics and other factors are relatively weak, will also make your photography artistic. If there are other artistic factors to supplement the composition, your photography will be icing on the cake and ascend to the throne of the art palace. So composition is the key to photography.