Is humanistic photography suitable for surrealism?

Among many sub-categories of photography, humanistic documentary photography often occupies the first place in photography competitions and some photography exhibitions. When we appreciate many award-winning photographs, you will find that the works with the most stories and emotions are also humanistic documentary photographs. However, many novice photographers never dare to touch the field of humanistic documentary photography, because such subjects have strict requirements in time, patience, discovery and observation ability, equipment and so on; This requirement is not how high-end equipment you have, but more about your ability and vision to discover classic themes, which can also be said to be comprehensive quality and ability.

As we all know, the photographic theme of humanistic documentary has an inestimable value, that is, it can better reflect the authenticity of the shooting environment, has good historical value, and sometimes even affects an era and can arouse people's thinking.

I wonder if you still remember this photo above? The author is a famous photographer Carter, so I won't elaborate on the background, but after watching this scene, people feel extremely contradictory and complicated. The dual concepts of hunger and prey make people feel the cruelty of the world. A vulture is waiting to eat the starving boy. Excellent humanistic works can often give people a heavy blow. There are also some works that can make people deep in thought or stimulate complex emotions and emotions.

First, how to discover the subject matter of photography?

On the surface, humanistic documentary photography seems to be a very simple and ubiquitous theme, but if you want to shoot a real picture that shocks the audience's eyes and shocks the soul, you need to master many skills and be patient enough. We need to go out and find the theme we want in various environments with life breath or humanistic documentary elements. Therefore, the most basic premise of shooting humanistic documentaries is: going out.

Second, talk about the photographic equipment needed for humanities documentaries.

1. If you understand the core of the above content, you can understand that the characteristic of humanistic documentary is to restore nature and truth, so this theme does not need professional portrait models, let alone deliberate posing. All works are basically from the ongoing truth in this world. All we have to do is take a picture with your camera and record it. Therefore, the requirements for equipment are not absolute. Many experts use 35mm fixed focus to shoot such subjects, and many teachers like to shoot with telephoto, such as 70-200 lenses. Therefore, the use of equipment is only adjusted according to the changes of your subject.