The main characteristics of photography art

(1) Documentary is the unique essential feature of photography art, and it is an independent foundation different from other types of plastic arts. Photography, as an art, of course, should give full play to its subjectivity in the creative process, but the subjectivity must be unified with documentary, and documentary can be creatively used, and this essential feature cannot be changed.

(2) Documentary is a great advantage of photography. It can truly record events and scenes in real life, play a special social function, and combine artistic value with news value and historical data value. He is especially good at reflecting social life quickly, widely and truly. Documentary is also a limitation, which makes photography unable to describe the images in the mind as freely as painting, and unable to complete the creation without reflecting the actual objects.

2. Light and shadow art

Light and tone, the creation of photographic artistic image, is accomplished through the combination of light, tone and composition.

(1) Light: Not only should it be expressed in the work, but also the ideal actual light is needed when choosing the prototype as the shooting object.