How to compose a composition in documentary photography

In daily life or work and study, everyone has been exposed to some classic sentences to some extent. Sentence is the basic unit of language use and consists of words or phrases. What are those widely used sentences like? The following is the composition method of documentary photography I collected for you. Welcome to reading. I hope you will like it.

How to compose the composition of documentary photography 1 1. Great little people

The main feature of this kind of photos is that the character is only a small element in the picture, and the character becomes a symbol to use. His height, thinness, poverty, wealth, beauty and ugliness may all have nothing to do with the picture. Sometimes he doesn't even need to be a real person. As long as he has a human figure, all he needs to do is appear in the right place with the right posture.

My friends:

There are many photos with people as symbols. Sometimes people are too young to be found, and it is precisely because of the small people that the scene is big. People can be used as a reference here, and people's posture can also be used as a way to express emotions.

You can't see the little guy's facial expression, but you can feel his joy, sadness, calmness and excitement from his posture ... As long as you leave him blank in the picture, he can make the picture that might have been dull full of emotion. Although he is very young, nothing can better support the picture without him.

Second, the virtual big shot.

The characteristic of this kind of photos is that people are too close to the camera and can only be blurred into the foreground.

My big photo:

The foreground and background of such photos should form an echo relationship. Although the foreground figures are vague, we should grasp the scale of ambiguity, and the expression of the foreground figures will affect the artistic conception of the photos.

More exaggerated, it is to turn these foreground figures into photo frames and add other elements to the photo frames:

For example:

The foreground people are very important, and the background part is quite heavy, although the foreground may occupy most of the picture.

Especially when the foreground is making a photo frame, but the highlighted part behind is the highlight of the whole photo.

Even though you may see the foreground at first sight, the second eye will look for the focused part behind the foreground, which will make people look at it for a while.

Set the foreground first and tell the story in the background.

Then we'll see how to break the golden section composition later.

Third, break the golden section composition

I will put the character in the middle, and I will let the character stare at the camera!

This kind of picture is easy to shoot, but not easy to shoot. The good thing is that many people promise to take pictures and let you take them. It's hard to take pictures because it's hard to think of such good photos. This requires that the subject is very special and can't ignore his facial expression like a villain. The people in this photo are either different in appearance, expression, light or color, or flat. But once this photo is taken, the subject's straight eyes are still very shocking. Think about it, the characters are in the middle of the picture, and their eyes are staring at you. Where are you hiding?

Fourth, grab his hand.

I don't take many such good photos, but arms and legs are the second best performance of human beings besides facial expressions, so many experts have taken them.

Put some of mine first, and finally put a photo of the master photographer:

Hands are the second face of human beings. Hand movements are also closely related to the expression of emotions. Grasping the hand or other body parts of the subject sometimes brings unexpected effects to the photo.

5. See how photographers compose characters.

Some masterpieces, my imitators, look at how they "employ people".

Although it seems a bit presumptuous to put the photos of the masters together with mine, these photos basically cover the four ways of "employing people" I mentioned above.

In news documentary photos, people are very important. How to add people to the picture cannot be summarized in these four ways. There are thousands of methods, and I personally prefer these four. By practicing in these four ways of shooting people, we can learn the relationship between environment and people, the effect of people's expressions on the picture, and express emotions by using human parts.

Again, there are four kinds, but not only these four kinds, but also I don't know if these four kinds have any scientific names, which I figured out by myself when I was looking through photos.

Compared with form and content, content always comes first. Imitation in form now is to make your photos easy to express content in the future. The shooting is over, not limited to the form, only for the content.

When shooting people, the most important thing is not the top, but a sincere smile.

How Documentary Photography Composes 2 1 Review the Ten Years of Documentary Photography in China

Domestic documentary photography, especially news documentary photography, went through such a detour more than ten years ago. During that time, news photography was excessively pursuing impact, especially for urban media photographers, who hung their wide-angle heads on their cameras all day, and the things they shot were seriously deformed. To this end, some people shouted the slogan "You didn't shoot well enough because you weren't close enough". In this way, the impact of the photo is strong, and the picture looks strong, but the characters are seriously deformed and ferocious, which affects the record of substantive content. Looking at such photos today, most of them can't truly restore the scene, nor can they accurately record the history. Aren't you sad?

2. Minimize human intervention.

This is easy to understand. Journalists and documentary photographers should record as little interference as possible as bystanders, and do not change or affect the authenticity of the scene. For example, don't pose, don't artificially change the expression of the recorded person. In practical work, the problem of posing by documentary photographers is more serious. The most common thing is that many photographers will order the subject to "smile" and so on, and even let the subject repeat an action many times until the photographer thinks it is satisfactory. This kind of behavior is completely feasible in commercial photography, but it is taboo in documentary photography, and it can even be said to be fraud.

3. Documentary photography should play light and shadow skills as little as possible.

In documentary photography, in order to make the subject stand out, many photographers often fill the light without leaving their hands, or underexpose one or two files according to the brightness of the scene when shooting, and then use the flash to "remedy" the subject in order to make the subject stand out. This is actually an application of photography, but when you think about it, it is a change of the scene environment and also belongs to the category of changing the shooting environment. Of course, this is not the same concept as flash fill light shooting in low illumination environment, so don't confuse it.

4, don't be too bound by the form of composition.

Anyone who is engaged in photography knows that there are many forms of composition in photography, such as triangle composition, diagonal composition, large S-shaped composition and symmetrical composition. The application of these compositions to photography will increase the aesthetic feeling of the picture. However, when the news scene appears, it is often fleeting. Don't be bound by these composition forms at this time, take pictures first. If the scene is still there, you can calm down and brew it to get rid of you. If you are an experienced photographer, you can use your experience to make a prediction, so that you can stay ahead of time, which is also a manifestation of your professional ability.

5. Life and soul of documentary photography

Documentary photography or news photography, the first photo taken must be able to truly record the history and restore the scene to the maximum extent. This is the significance of documentary photography and news photography. Otherwise, the "documentary" photos that have lost their souls can only be bodies with heavy makeup and gorgeous coats. Peel these off, and you will find that the photos in front of you are empty and tasteless.

6. Take photos that stand the test of time

Having said that, my personal view is very clear, that is, don't play with techniques in documentary photography to reduce the photographer's interference with the scene. The most taboo is to manipulate the subject or reproduce the shooting with the scene. Strictly speaking, scene reproduction belongs to documentary fraud and belongs to the category of photography fraud. And content is king, which is the soul of documentary photography. As long as this is firmly in the hands of photographers, there will be good works that make people think. To put it more bluntly, it is "squeezing out water, eliminating fake and shoddy, as long as dry goods." Only in this way can our documentary photography be worthy of readers and history.