Related concepts of photographic structure

It refers to the use of visual features to organically reproduce the objects in the three-dimensional space environment in real life in the two-dimensional space defined by corners, which plays the role of highlighting the subject, attracting attention, simplifying clutter and giving people a balanced and harmonious picture, and conveys and explains more information through the picture structure, reflecting the author's understanding and feelings about a thing.

The word COMPOSITION is a transliteration of English composition, which is a term of plastic arts. Its meaning is: all the parts are composed, combined, configured and arranged to form an artistic picture. According to Ci Hai, composition refers to the arrangement and treatment of the relationship and position between people and things in a certain space by artists in order to express the theme and aesthetic effect of their works, and to form individual or partial images into an artistic whole. In China traditional painting, it is called composition or layout. This term contains a basic and general meaning, that is, to unify all the parts that make up the whole, organize the image expressed by the author in a limited space or plane, and form a specific structure of the picture, so as to realize the photographer's performance intention. In a word, composition refers to how to arrange people, scenes and objects in a picture to obtain the best layout, the method of combining images and the sum of all means of revealing images.

Composition also needs to pay attention to artistic skills and means of expression, which is called an artist in China traditional art, and the artist's ingenuity is directly related to the artistic conception of a work. Composition is an important part of vertical form, but it must be based on conception. The composition of a work embodies the author's originality and arrangement skills, and the author's intention and specific methods to express the theme, so it is a concrete embodiment of the author's artistic level. To sum up, the so-called composition, that is, the artist uses visual elements to organize the composition according to space on the screen, is to resort to the coordination of visual points, lines, shapes, light, light and shade and colors in terms of formal beauty.

Composition is an important factor to express the content of a work, so the organization of all photographic visual art languages in the work makes some internal structure of the content properly expressed. Only when the internal structure and external structure are harmonious and unified can a perfect composition be produced.

Every theme, whether simple or grand, important or ordinary, contains visual beauty. When we observe the concrete objects in life-people, trees, houses or flowers, we should put aside their general characteristics and regard them as a combination of shape, line, texture, light and shade, color, light consumption and three-dimensional objects. Through the photographer's use of various modeling methods, the shape, color, texture, three-dimensional, dynamic, spatial relationship and other images of the subject are vividly displayed on the screen, so that it conforms to the visual laws of people and is truly felt by the viewers, so as to achieve a satisfactory visual effect-visual beauty. In other words, the composition should be aesthetic. As Rodin said, beauty is everywhere. For our eyes, it is not the lack of beauty, but the lack of beauty. ; As a photographer, I am just good at seeing nature with my eyes and moving this visual feeling to the picture.

But composition cannot be an end in itself, because the basic task of composition is most likely to clarify the artist's ideas.

The purpose of composition is to emphasize and highlight the typical characters or scenery in the idea, so as to abandon the general, superficial, cumbersome and secondary things, properly arrange the foil and choose the environment, make the work higher, stronger, more perfect, more concentrated, more typical and ideal than the real life, and thus enhance the artistic effect. Generally speaking, it is the art of transmitting one's thoughts and feelings to others, which can really express the purpose of composition.

Composition and design can be universal because they have the same meaning. The precise concept of design and its original meaning is conception, that is, the artist arranges various visual elements properly in order to express his thoughts clearly and vividly.

Composition refers not only to specific operations, but also to describing the whole form as an object associated with complex photographic rules, introducing natural objects into the realm of reality and becoming an independent world different from nature. Any excellent photographic work is a complex unity of thought and art, and the complexity of the work is determined by the complexity of life. But in the picture processing, it is natural, colorful and natural, and there are few traces of axes. What is the reason? Originality lies in the creation of photographers, just like an architect building a house. After some selection, refining, planning and arrangement, and organizational structure, the photographer's understanding of life and ingenuity in commercial site selection and layout are reflected. Therefore, we must make a series of organizational arrangements, skillfully think about the structure, carefully lay out the layout, highlight the main aspects, emphasize the essential things, and embody the theme of the work as a distinct image organization.

Composition is to study the structural forms and laws of all compositions, the principles and principles of composition structure, and the corresponding relationship between composition and various thinking forms. Composition must be based on all scientific thinking.

However, people still have different views on whether composition also reflects the laws of objective things. Some people think that there is no definite method for painting, because the objective things are ever-changing and the emotional content is more complicated, so no one can tell the law of composition structure. Engels said that the universal form of nature is law, so the visible law is the universal form. Practice has proved that the composition structure has certain rules, and the management position, layout, layout, structure and light color in the theory of Chinese painting are all incisive discussions on the composition law.

In China traditional painting, the composition structure is called composition or layout, and the composition of exhibition paper comes first. Position management is like Go, you can play a game of chess, don't be confused. Ordinary paper can also lose ink, remember not to express it with a pen at will. Chess has its way, painting has its reason, and losing is like losing chess. The ancients compared composition to playing chess. When photography becomes like this, there must be a certain composition and layout.

Therefore, composition is called the general idea of a painting, and the so-called general idea is to outline and summarize. Like writing an article, the composition of a painting should follow the rules of composition, such as having rules and laws, having masters from time to time, echoing each other, comparing reality with reality, being hidden and obvious, being simple and complex, being dense and seamless, obeying the requirements of theme expression, and achieving the perfect harmony and unity of the overall sense of form, which is the ultimate goal of composition.