How to make photographic works

An excellent photo album records the whole process of your creation, and it is also a stepping stone for you to apply for colleges and universities. So how should an excellent photo collection be made? You will understand after reading the following content!

Get ready.

It is very important to make a specific plan before actually starting the field shooting activities (especially for the creation of portfolios limited by submission time nodes). When making a shooting plan, we can consider making a detailed idea of the work before and after shooting and the arrangement of time, manpower and material resources for specific shooting activities in the form of sketches and text descriptions, which is the first set of plans. Different forms of works, specific design drawings, task time nodes, manpower and material lists will be very different.

1. Define the creative direction of photography subdivision.

When preparing an application for studying abroad in photography, it is generally known that an excellent portfolio plays a decisive role in the application result, but it often falls into a misunderstanding: blindly preparing works and forgetting the original intention. Therefore, we should first carefully investigate the background of the majors and professors we are interested in, and then prepare corresponding works for their teaching direction. The following are some related majors and directions of photography:

1. According to the final expression of the work, there can be photo photography, video and multilingual imaging devices based on lens language.

2. According to the creative media of the work, there can be traditional film cameras, digital cameras, other optical instruments or electronic media (such as scanners and projectors), comprehensive materials, etc.

3. According to the creative content and theme: there can be experiments, fine arts, documentary, commercial photography, and many subdivisions, so you should pay attention to the distinction when browsing the official website in colleges and universities.

Second, the continuity and depth of the work-a lot of practice and repeated scrutiny.

The integrity of the content and the rigor of the logical structure of the work itself cannot be ignored, which requires us to create with a developmental attitude. The same work, after continuous shooting or production, has been continuously studied, discussed and improved. From the first draft to the final draft, it has made a great leap in effect and theoretical support. It is expected to show its talents and potential more comprehensively, and even be widely recognized by people in the industry, become a prestigious school and obtain the most suitable high-quality teaching resources. Here are a few points to note:

1. After the professional direction is clear, start planning, actual shooting and production with clear ideas around the theme. Avoid aimless and opportunistic street sweeping shooting.

2. A lot of shooting, making demonstrations, re-checking, thinking and revising to ensure a gradual process. Avoid jumping back and forth in the creative direction, just dabbling in every scheme, lacking the process of finding and solving problems, that is, the process of exploring a scheme in depth. Due to the characteristics of the media (you can easily get a rich image), photography creation is easy to make people "lazy". When you find that your work is slightly thin or far-fetched, you must start to reflect on this problem.

3. The intensity of work

At the same time, we should try our best to try the inner thoughts and emotions behind the plump image, so that it is breathtaking. When students create photographic works, they not only need to catch people's eyes in visual effects. The following three factors have the most direct influence on the final expressive force:

1. The unity of the content of the work revolves around a theme, with complete structure and strict logic.

2. In the shooting and processing of images, we should be bold, novel and distinctive, challenge people's visual habits and attract the attention of the audience.

3. The "quantity" of photos under the same group of works. On the premise of unifying the overall theme framework, the richer the content and information that can be displayed in all aspects of the work, the greater the intensity in conveying information, guiding thinking and stimulating feelings, and the more the viewer can stay and really understand the work.

Four. Define the theme

Regarding the establishment of the theme of works, students must pay attention to their usual accumulation, develop the habit of being good at discovering and excavating their interests and inspirations from the accumulated ideas, get rid of the state of "creating for the sake of creation", and passively look for the source of inspiration without taking photography as the completion of homework. At this time, we should start to sort out our ideas according to our own interests, simplify them into concepts, try to expand the existing concepts with mind maps, and select some for preliminary investigation. In this process, we can find relatively more interesting points, and at the same time consider the possibility of the creation and realization of the work, and finally choose a theme.

Conceptual development of verb (abbreviation of verb)

According to a theme selected in the previous step, we will conduct more in-depth research and refine the content, and make a comprehensive and thorough thinking on all aspects from different angles such as the artist, the work itself, the viewer (or the experiencer), and strive to be reasonable and even original in the face of the viewer's doubts. Extensive access to understand the similarities and differences of related theories and works in content and creative ideas, and try to record text content and video materials in the form of research reports for reference in the following steps.