China Headline Photographers Union

Photographic works must first please themselves and impress others.

A friend in today's headline asked, "Is photography to please others? Or impress others? " . After seeing it, the author thought about this question with great interest and answered it. The author polished his answer a little and formed this text.

The author believes that photographic works must first please themselves and then impress others.

Photographic works are an expression of photographers. Whether shooting natural scenery, people, birds and animals, or shooting some events, it is to express truth, goodness and beauty, and it is also an expression of the photographer's three views.

After the photography is completed and the work comes out, the photographer will accept his own selection first. Photographers will eliminate those works with poor image quality and inappropriate exposure angle, and then keep their most satisfactory works. No matter whether the photographer is commercial or purely entertaining himself, the photographic works he wants to keep are at least works that he is satisfied with or works that can please him.

If it is commercial photography, it is necessary to deliver the photographic results to the customers, and naturally it is up to the customers to choose. The principle of customer selection is of course customer satisfaction, and works that can impress customers will be adopted by customers.

If the photographic works are submitted to photography magazines, art galleries, etc. Only works that can impress the other party can be selected for publication or collection and display to the public.

All in all, in a word, only the photographs that please you can be preserved by photographers, and the photographs that impress others can be displayed to everyone and passed on to future generations.

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Written in Suzhou on April 8, 2020.