How should photography attract the attention of the audience?

Lead: "Why do people always glance at my photos?" In fact, if you want people to see more of your work, you must know how to control the audience's line of sight in composition! Many photographers always spend all kinds of thoughts: observing the subject, from front to back, from left to right, to lying on the ground and climbing to the top floor to observe, just to find the best angle, so that the human body looking at the photo will show your heart, so that you can look more at the photo and enjoy the composition you have worked so hard to design. Here, I want to share with you how to borrow the shooting skills of composition, so that viewers can stay in your photography for a long time.

Off screen

When taking an opinion, there are always more omissions than reservations. Of course, this is the key point: to establish a photographer's unique perspective and convey what happened. However, what happens vaguely outside the screen is sometimes intriguing. Traditional photography (in this case, painting is the same) thinks that everything you want to present should be stuffed into the picture. However, it is this widely accepted processing technology that makes the occasional image meaningful, which deliberately refers to the events that occur off the screen. Occasionally, it is one of the key words, because you risk the audience not understanding it. In the picture, worshippers wait for the sunrise at the top of Adam Peak in Sri Lanka. Maybe you think the sunrise is nothing special, but it is of great significance to this group of people gathered here. In the same scene frame, it is best not to present the sun to keep a little mystery and leave a question mark. What is that man pointing to? The answer is ready, but leaving this moment can make the image more exciting.

▲ In these consecutive images, there is no finger to one side.

▲ This hand and all (well, or most) faces that have not come, let the focus of the image extend to the right.

expose

Disclosure is a technique borrowed from movies. Although it can be represented by a single static photo, frankly speaking, it is difficult to operate in practice. But let's try. When using exposure, one thing should be presented to the audience through the camera first, and then another thing in the picture should be exposed by moving or zooming, which is usually unexpected. It seems simple, but if you want to create a strong effect, you have to have an element of surprise. At first, we should induce the audience to think it is a certain situation, and then let the really noteworthy objects appear from the side or corner. To shoot such a still image, only by carefully arranging framing, composition or light can all the attention be focused on the same place at once, until the eyes stay on the picture for a long time, then wander around and find another thing. This balance technique is hard to be sure, because if the things to be revealed are hidden too well, such as being too small or the light is too weak, the viewer may get bored and look away, and the result is completely unaware. The picture shows a Sultan's mausoleum named "Koba". Because it was taken from a helicopter, my mind must move quickly. This mini white figure will be the focus of shooting for only one reason: after seeing stop for a minute, it will move to the corner and find its own existence.

▲ The combination of various sizes and positions in the picture can ensure that attention will be initially focused on the mausoleum and then transferred to the mini characters. Both are in sharp contrast with the ground.

▲ This technique in the movie is to reveal the characters by panning down to the right.

Double lens

This is a classic shooting technique, especially suitable for interviews and dialogues in film and television. This technique is called "double shot": the subject is two people, usually close-up and middle shot, and the face dominates the picture. In widescreen shooting, two people can stand side by side, leaving breathing space for each other, which is very suitable for this technique. One big point of the dual lens is that through careful composition, the viewer's line of sight moves back and forth between the subjects, and the subjects are connected, which usually has a good effect; In other words, photos are dynamic, not static. This photo of China Opera was taken on the stage. I chose the focus on purpose. /1.4 large aperture, 85mm portrait lens. The focus and light are on the foreground character, so the line of sight will be attracted to the foreground character first. However, the contrasting background (dark on the right, bright on the left and rich in color) can ensure that the line of sight will move to the blurred but still recognizable female horn. Then, the more eye-catching actors will draw their eyes back. Attention is like table tennis, spinning back and forth between two subjects.

▲ The aperture is set to f/ 1.4, and the lens only focuses on a single plane.

▲ Attention is initially focused on bright and focused foreground figures, then moved to the rear and then returned to the front.