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How to express emotion with structure

Lead: As a photographer, I prefer to take photos with unrestrained emotional expression. Emotion is more important than parameters. I should learn to use the subject of emotional contagion, not your language to give orders, because the results of the two methods will be very different. I like real feelings. Come and have a look!

Usually when I take pictures, I want my subjects to be active. They can interact with each other or with me, look at the camera or not, or turn around and look back. When the mood reaches a certain height, even if the composition is not perfect or in the non-optimal aperture and the lowest iso, it is acceptable. We can make necessary modifications through some later technologies, and the only thing that cannot be modified is people's emotional state. Of course, what can be done in the early stage cannot be solved blindly in the later stage. Photography requires us to truly record every state. I believe many people like photos that can touch their hearts.

Photography needs sensibility or rationality, but there is no conflict between them. After we have laid a good foundation, we need to recognize it with sensibility. This is a feeling that is difficult to convey in words. To be sure, it has nothing to do with the equipment in our hands. To quote a close friend, a good photo is the depth of love, not the depth of field. I love this sentence very much.

Usually, my portrait is more documentary, and I prefer documentary environmental portrait in documentary. This is my own definition. In my aesthetic view, such photos are more attractive, and only such documentary photos are the most memorable after many years.

One way for you to examine the emotion of your photos is to attribute the color of the photos to black and white. Our eyes will not be disturbed by the color of the photo. We can understand the essence of a photo with our heart and convey our feelings to everyone without modification.

In fact, deep affection not only refers to the feelings for the subject, but also occasionally uses some people you don't know to better cooperate with the shooting. Of course, if you want to enter a set state first, then your subject enters it, and then infect the person you want to enter the picture, we need to complete this shooting very quickly, only three times. Another situation is that you don't want to be found by photographers or people around you who want to enter the picture. A voyeur? Shooting from a new angle also requires the photographer to judge quickly, even before judging. The brain will respond to this picture as soon as possible, and people with similar shooting experience should be able to understand it.

Emotion accounts for a large proportion in my photos, and composition is an instinctive reaction, just as we know that we need chopsticks to eat. Maybe my experience is not suitable for you, and photography is divided into many factions. It is good to know my general direction. It took me a long time to find my own direction.

Finally, I want to say, if you don't know what to shoot and how to shoot, then put down your camera, accumulate more photos and find your way to go on. 70% of the photos I take now don't need a big aperture. I can choose whether I like depth of field or family.