What is realistic photography?

The essence of photography is realism. Of course, photography can organize all kinds of beautiful pictures like painting, but relatively speaking, it may be more important to analyze and study its realistic expression. Documentary photography has been widely valued in China and achieved quite good results, precisely because documentary photography is making full use of the realistic function of photography; News photography and report photography are playing an increasingly important role in today's social development, both because they fully embody the special power of photography in realism. However, the technical skills of realistic photography in theme expression have not been fully studied and systematically summarized, which is exactly what I want to discuss with you on this important theme.

The basic operation of realistic photography, whether artistic creation or non-artistic shooting, is to directly face the living real world. All the images formed on the screen, including all the details, are the original features in real life. People even have an indisputable principle that nothing on the screen can be faked. In fact, this is the basic feature of all realistic photography.

Compared with painting, we can think that realistic photography is to capture a moment in real life and finally realize artistic or emotional expression. Its outstanding feature is the organic organization of real situations (even instantaneous organization); Painting, on the other hand, deliberately depicts an ideal picture and realizes artistic or emotional expression through various rendering means.

Several points must be clarified:

1, the real scene in life, not the final image formed after conception;

2. Capture a moment instead of carving a picture;

3. Immediate organization, not careful design and arrangement.

And most importantly, this kind of scene captured from real life, as well as the instantly frozen picture, must serve a certain theme, not capture anything.