Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - Photography major - Characteristics of excellent photos

Characteristics of excellent photos

The characteristics of excellent photos include: excellent composition, capturing emotions, telling stories with pictures, retaining imagination, capturing iconic moments and so on.

1, excellent composition

Good composition is an essential skill for a good work, whether it is trichotomy, parallelism, guiding line, etc. It can not only highlight the subject, but also increase the readability of the photo, making it easier for people to understand the content of the photo.

Step 2 capture emotions

Emotion is a powerful language for communication between people. The more you can grasp the emotions, the more you can touch the hearts of the audience. So you should always observe the emotional changes of the object, such as hearing funny jokes and laughing all over the room. This is a good time to shoot.

3. Pictures tell stories

Works that can tell stories are always excellent works. You can refer to many photos of documentary or news photographers to bring out people's motives, behaviors, backgrounds, interactions or feelings at that time (usually photos with actions or interactions are easier to do).

4. Keep your imagination.

Photos can provide enough information to tell a complete story, which is a good method, but just like novels are to movies, it is often more fascinating to not show all the contents and reserve space for people to supplement the content of the story with imagination. For example, two people hug in a telephone booth, but they can't see what they are doing. Are they laughing? Is it a chat? Is it a kiss? This kind of photo with suspense blank has more room for imagination.

Step 5 capture iconic moments

Just like some classic pictures of movies, every activity or event will have some symbolic moments, or some actions will have strong symbolic significance, and these works will be impressive. For example, the girl in the above picture is waiting for service in the hair salon, so she picks up the magazine and talks while reading it, which is a typical interesting picture.