How to appreciate photographic works: the degree of exaggeration

When appreciating photographic works, it is necessary to analyze whether the combination of subject and second, bright and dark, big and small, near and far, high and low in the picture is conducive to expressing and highlighting creative intentions. When using exaggeration, whether it is used properly and whether it is conducive to expressing the theme is also one of the keys to the success or failure of photographic works. There are many kinds of photographic expressions. In order to avoid the similarity with other people's shooting forms, we need to express it in our own unique way. Exaggeration is a common photographic method to express the subject.

1. broaden your horizons and deform appropriately.

For example, when shooting buildings, in order to form a better visual effect, most of them use foreground to outline the picture. However, when there is no reference around, it is necessary to find another way. This is a photo of the Arc de Triomphe in France. The author handled the relationship between characters and architecture well when shooting.

Arc de Triomphe

In the picture, the inside of the Arc de Triomphe is enlarged and deformed with a super wide-angle lens, showing its height and grandeur, and the sculptures and figures are clearly visible. The key is to arrange the husband and wife in the best interest center in the lower left corner of the painted face, which completely changes the pattern and visual effect of the picture and makes the proportional relationship between characters and buildings clear at a glance. From another angle, it also reflects the warmth of people wandering in a happy life after the victory of the French Revolution, especially now. It is not difficult to see that if no characters participate in the picture and form a good combination, this picture can only be a photo similar to a postcard.

When a theme is represented by multiple pictures, the combination of the pictures is particularly important. If a photo group wants to describe an event, it must have a context and a certain text description. The key images of events should be clear and prominent, close to news documentary photography, but there are also differences. If a photography team wants to describe a scene, it needs to be reflected from different angles of the scene, or by different states and changes of the scene at different times.

2. Close to the subject, reasonable exaggeration

In order to express the main part of the subject and strengthen its unique strength in the picture, close-up exaggerated photography can be used to express it.

For example, when representing a helmsman, it is an effective way to emphasize his powerful hands, enhance the visual appeal of his hands in the picture and exaggerate the size of his hands.

For example, the following tasks:

helmsman

This is an old captain on Dawang Island. He was on a motorboat and drove it to another island. The image of the old captain is excellent, his face is dark and red, his body is strong, his calloused hands are clutching the rudder, his eyes are shining ahead, and white clouds are floating in the blue sky. This is the image of a typical old fisherman. In order to highlight the characteristics of the old captain as a helmsman, a wide-angle lens was used to shoot close to the main body. Due to the deformation effect of near big and far small, the hands of the old captain appear big and powerful, which enhances the visual effect of the work.

The use of wide-angle lens and ultra-wide-angle lens needs to be decided according to the need of objective scenery. Misuse may cause strong facial deformation, and the facilities need special attention.