What is rhythm? Does photography have a rhythm? How do photographic pictures reflect the rhythm?

Rhythm: Nature or the arts and humanities are enriched and evolved due to changes. Regular or irregular periodic changes in multidimensional spaces including height, width, depth and time are called rhythm.

Examples of specific changes in the stage are: the speed of music, the rhythm of art, and the climax of literary works.

Humanistic life includes: swinging, working speed, life efficiency, leisure in feudal society, high efficiency of capitalism, etc.

Nature: ups and downs of mountains and rivers, laws of animal and plant life, birth and death, sunspot activity cycle, revolution and rotation, etc.

It can also be interpreted as a regular, continuous and complete form of movement. It is an important means to express lyric works by organizing all kinds of changing factors in the form of repeated correspondence to form a coherent and orderly whole (namely rhythm). Rhythm is not limited to the level of sound, but also includes the movement of scenery and emotion.

The change of rhythm is the source of the development of things and the soul of artistic beauty. The result of the change of relativity.

Photography is of course rhythmic, as follows.

Picture rhythm

The movement of the subject and the lens produces the internal rhythm of photography. The editing of the picture produces the external rhythm of photography, which is usually called montage rhythm.

1. Internal rhythm

The movement of the subject in photography is the most basic rhythm in the picture rhythm. From the perspective of visual psychology, "exercise attracts attention, and people and animals have strong spontaneous reactions to exercise."

The internal rhythm of the picture is too fast for people's visual nerves to cooperate and understand the content expressed in the picture.

2. External rhythm

The external rhythm of the photographic picture is mainly produced by the movement and editing of the lens. The movement of the lens changes the space of the picture and also produces the rhythm. The movement of the lens can eliminate the visual fatigue caused by watching the same space for a long time. Moving the lens appropriately according to the teaching content can make the picture lively.

3. The rhythm of lens movement

People generally observe things from far to near, from generalization to detail. In lens movement, proper movement rhythm can strongly dominate people's attention transfer, direction and concentration.

4. The rhythm of editing

The rhythm of film photography is finally completed in editing. The famous British film editor Blaise Sue once said: 90% of editing movies is rhythm.

There are also two factors related to rhythm in film photography editing. They are the length of each shot and the size of the scene.

In addition to the length of the shot, the size of the shot is also an important factor affecting the rhythm when editing.

The lens is divided into five types: distant view, panoramic view, middle view, close-up view and close-up. Panorama contains much more connotations than close-ups. To understand its connotation, it takes more time and attention to shift in the picture, while the close-up connotation is relatively less and the extension is relatively large. It is easier to see the close-up content.

In addition, timbre and tone also have an impact on rhythm. Movies with the same content and editing rhythm, such as treble, warm tone, bass and cool tone, give people different rhythms. This is related to the emotional influence of color on human body. High-key warm colors often make people excited and nervous, while low-key cool colors are the opposite. Shadows have different visual stimuli due to different gray levels, different tones and lightness. So the arrangement and combination of tones and tones also produce a certain rhythm.