How to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of your own photography?

Hey, I'm Wenchuan, a photographer with a cat on his head.

Because I have opened many courses, students often come to me to comment on films, which really makes me extremely embarrassed.

Because there are generally two situations.

One is obvious harm, such as overexposure or underexposure of the whole group of works, too many sundries around the characters, and the whole photo can't find any theme or theme to express. , and generally take it without sincerity;

On the other hand, he has certain skills and aesthetics, and his works are OK. His favorite thing is to suddenly throw out a film, and the next second, people everywhere are looking for a master to evaluate it. To tell the truth, such a person is already an old bird playing photography. Don't you know the number of x in your heart? )

Isn't there a fixed scoring model in photography, so that everyone can comment on their own works without embarrassing others? (Because as far as I know, what friends who take pictures around hate most is that others come to you, and there is no reason to have no relatives, that is, the master asks for comments. )

Then how can we simply analyze the advantages and disadvantages of a group of works?

(The following only represents personal opinions. If you don't like it, please close the page in the upper right corner decisively. )

As we all know, China people have been told to set a goal since childhood, and the goal usually needs to be quantified by numbers. For example, learning English well today is not as specific as the goal of memorizing 100 words today. It is achievable and quantifiable.

When people continue to do something, they usually need great desire as the driving force (such as survival desire, curiosity, expression desire, expression desire, comfort desire, lust), and they need to use digitally quantified progress bars (such as the level in the game) and achievement events (such as the silver stage and the platinum stage in the glory of the king) to stimulate themselves to stick to it.

Does the road of photography conform to the characteristics of quantifiable goals, persistent desires, digital progress bars and achievement events?

The answer is no, or it seems not.

China people have been educated by exams since childhood. Exam-oriented education measures everything with scores, so our subconscious mind will habitually grade everything.

And when one day what we are doing is not measured by scores, we can't clearly perceive whether we are doing well enough.

Is it possible to quantify the beauty of photographic works?

Photography belongs to the category of artistic creation. Most literary and artistic works rely on sensibility to perceive beauty and connotation, and photography is no exception. But apart from sensibility, in fact, as a novice to learn photography, it is of great benefit to our progress to consciously quantify the quality of photographic works.

For example, this is the reduction factor of the work I extracted from a photography website:

From the above factor table, it seems that every item is a well-known truth, but if you can come up with a group of your own works and compare them one by one, you will find yourself photographed many times.

For example, the most common mistake that beginners make is to take a big picture-to make a composition in the center, always taking only the face, leaving little blank around, confusing or blurring the background, regardless of the large aperture.

This is very consistent with the "single repetition of composition" and "repetition of expression angle and scene" mentioned in the first and second points.

If we know this deduction standard in advance, it will prompt us to shoot as many rich scenes (whole body, bust and close-up), change angles as much as possible (head up, head up and head down) and change venues as much as possible, so that our monotonous problem can be solved.

Then let's look at the factors that can add points to the work:

From the above factors, comparing our works, we will find that most beginners' works are posed without emotion. If we can inject emotion into the model when it is successfully guided and captured, the appeal and story power of the picture will increase a lot, and the whole group of works will get a lot of extra points.

So which works stand out more easily?

If everyone is still in the initial stage, then regardless of the factors of adding and subtracting points just now, simply do the following three principles mentioned in the textbook of New York Institute of Photography:

Today, when I was writing this article, I happened to think of a relatively simple student mutual evaluation/self-examination form made several years ago for ice-breaking students, which can be used as a simple reference.

If there are photographers who often send their works to photography websites, then after reaching the above basic points, there are still advanced points to strive for.

For example, in domestic photography websites such as POCO, Tumbler, LOFTER and CNU, you will find that all the works recommended by editors to the home page have different attribute preferences.

Photography works are for the audience, and the editors of photography websites are also one of your audiences, but different websites have different editing preferences.

For example, you will see many antique works with perfect artistic conception and strong colors, but they are heavily polished, which is invisible on CNU; For example, Tuchong and 500PX have a large number of excellent landscape works, which are rarely seen in the first two websites.

Therefore, if you want your work to reach the passing line, you should first test it with the factors of adding points and subtracting points; If you want your photography to get higher exposure in different photography websites, then you need to study the editing preferences, user preferences and matching ability of the platform.

Ok, that's all for today. In fact, there are many dimensions to judge the quality of a work or a group of works.