How to understand the language of photography art

The modeling language of photography can endow people with rich formal aesthetic feeling, mainly because these modeling languages have their own aesthetic significance, that is, they all have their own relatively independent aesthetic values. Photographers have created many photographic works by skillfully grasping and using the beauty of lines, colors and light.

For all plastic arts, lines are the basic conditions to form a visual image. The beauty of lines is an indispensable element in photography. Photographers attach great importance to the use of lines. They not only use the beauty of lines to construct and enrich their own images, but also use lines as living things to express their feelings and enhance the artistic appeal of their works. Many successful landscape and still life works humanize and personalize the natural scenery, even full of human feelings, which is mostly the result of the author's discovery and refinement of lines and giving them humanistic feelings. The landscape work "Late Return" (Note: See Zhu Yujun's Appreciation of Photographic Works of Art). ), mobilize the meaning function of lines, express feelings through the modeling of lines, and make the works intriguing. Those coconut trees, reflecting the sunset sky, are like relatives standing by the sea waiting for the return of fishing boats. The picture is full of emotion, memorable and intriguing. It can be said that the ingenious use of the line language of coconut trees here is better than a thousand words.

Color is one of the elements of plastic arts language. So is photography. Photography, like other plastic arts, can not only describe the colorful world objectively, but also show different subjective feelings by exerting the personality of color, thus enhancing the artistic effect of works. The color language of photography art not only follows the general law of color application in plastic arts, but also has its own characteristics. First of all, unlike painting, it is restricted by the color of the objective scenery itself. The way it uses color is basically color reproduction, that is, selecting the color of the scene itself and reproducing the color of the scene in front of the camera. Therefore, the beauty of color is more direct and intimate than painting. Secondly, the use of color in photography is closely related to the use of light. The intensity of light, the incident direction and angle of light, etc. , can bring different tone configurations to the picture, and even determine the tone of the picture color. Due to the direct influence of light, the color of photographic pictures is generally brighter, brighter and more eye-catching than painting. In addition, the photographer can control the tone of the picture, control the tone of the color, highlight the stress of the color and enhance the color effect of the picture by choosing different films, color filters and post-production. Therefore, the colors of photographic pictures are generally rich and changeable, harmonious and complete, and more emotional. The award-winning color work "Continuous Spring Rain" at the 12th National Film Festival can illustrate this point. This work successfully shows the inherent color characteristics of natural scenery in the past winter and the spring when everything recovers. The faint oil-green tone, including layers of gray-green fog, occupies the whole picture, bringing a breath full of spring and giving people a fresh and elegant feeling. Deliberately arranged bright red and blue rain umbrellas, as well as the reflection in the water, break the gray-green tone, make the picture more full of vitality, give people a sense of beauty in the form of "a little red among thousands of greens", and let people feel the unique skill of color language in photography.

The beauty of light and shadow is an important part of the formal beauty of photography, and it is also a prominent manifestation of the beauty that photography is different from other plastic arts.

The so-called hue is a multi-level hue from bright to dark, that is, from white to light gray, from light gray to dark gray, from dark gray to black, which is produced by the action of light. Tone plays an important role in black-and-white photography, and it is also very important in color photography. Here is a brief analysis of the role of tone shadow, a unique artistic language, in the artistic beauty of black and white photography.