What are the four categories of modern photography?

The innate ability of objective realism in photography not only reveals the details of images amazingly, but also reflects the appeal of image sociology through the combination of field investigation and objective third-person vision. This kind of photography has several operating principles:

(1) flat waist commemorative composition plus medium and large cameras (120, 4x5, 8xlO)+ large negative+low sensitivity (ASA 50- 100)+ small aperture (above F22)+direct printing method similar to "F64 Collection" can make the work super-excellent.

(2) The same theme is shot and displayed in a large number in a quantitative way.

(3) Emphasize objectivity, remove subjective emotions, and only choose the subject (or be selected by the subject).

(4) The 50 mm standard lens is used to simulate the normal vision of ordinary people to prevent deformation, and the positive rule is adopted to avoid any special photography skills and dramatic composition as much as possible.

2, fool snapshot:

This kind of photography completely deviates from the elements required by classical photography, such as fine particles, fine texture, beautiful light and rigorous composition. It uses a "fool camera" (small automatic camera) that anyone can operate to take pictures. Since the fool camera broke the specialization of photography, it has already become one of the indispensable necessities in daily life. It can shoot quickly and conveniently in any place and under any conditions, and photographers can get started without professional training. However, its failure rate is high, such as: inaccurate focus, jitter, light stiffness caused by front flash, color temperature deviation, red eye, date display and so on. This makes the basic dogmatists of classic photography scoff. However, this snapshot style has applied these fatal shortcomings of the fool camera and developed into its unique aesthetic view. These functions include:

(1) color negative is often used in large quantities (the color is often abnormal).

(2) The extensive use of the front flash (giving people an immersive feeling) and the effect of the back image (dynamic).

(3) The composition is skewed, and the subject tends to cut (giving people an abrupt feeling).

(4) Application of jitter, out of focus and blur (sense of randomness).

(5) The appearance record of the date (reminder of time freezing and passing away).

(6) Due to the poor lens, the photographic sensitivity is high (above ASA 200), and the particles are often coarse and the contrast is too large.

3. Pretend to take photos:

"Manipulated photography" can also be called "sat". Up photography ",this is not a genre or doctrine, but a summary of expression techniques and shooting methods. This kind of work tends to the actual shooting content of the photo itself, mostly the elements that the author has conceived before shooting, and then the actual shooting is carried out by means of installation and placement; The author is like a film director who is in control of the overall situation. Photographers don't take the "decisive moment" as a blessing and "recreate" a witness scene, but take back the initiative from the object and create with an omniscient and omnipotent vision.

In addition to the arranged scenes, there are also many photographers who add homemade items to their pictures, or add some hand-painted or destroyed pictures (or negatives) to their photos, so as to increase the level of their works to echo the theme, with the intention of cutting into the dialectical relationship between physical and illusory images: in addition to the pre-planned image shooting and on-site layout, the focus is also on post-production, that is, adding relevant media materials in the post-production process. Or it is presented in a non-planar way in combination with spatial characteristics, and the pregnancy of the place itself also strengthens the profoundness of these photos. The collocation of photos and real environment not only changes the original function of space, but also changes the meaning of photos themselves. Through the installation of space field, the connection between virtual interface (photos) and real section (scenes) is strengthened, which is called out in everyone's reality and memory, but doomed to be lost forever.

4. Digital composite image:

In recent years, it has become a trend to synthesize retouched image works by computer, which is common in major exhibitions all over the world. At present, many people in China use "digital images" to create works, and most of them use retouching techniques for post-production. They still shoot some rough films with traditional optical negatives, and then scan them into the computer to process them according to the possibility of films. So we can see that the skin of the characters in the picture is decorated like plastic toys, and the scenery is like a movie billboard or a calendar. The strong reflected light and pink fluorescent color of the object make the retina of the audience unable to tell the true from the false, and everything is as glamorous and attractive as a landscape calendar. However, what does this image, which is based on the real world but keeps a certain distance from reality, want to show? According to jean baudrillard, images are divided into four levels:

The first layer: it is the true projection of beautiful things.

The second layer: it covers up the truth of the strong foot and isomerizes its ontology.

Third floor; It erased this great truth.

The fourth floor; It has nothing to do with the so-called truth, but its purest parody.

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