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Yu Guangzhong wrote, "Who can stop the world for three seconds? When he was seventy years old, he told the story of himself and photography and his thoughts on photography.

"In a busy modern society, who can stop the world for three seconds? No one can, except photographers. " When taking a group photo, the photographer asks everyone to pose first, and then shouts "one, two, three, eggplant!" " "Three seconds passed like this.

Three seconds is sometimes longer. Yu Guangzhong said in his article that when taking a group photo, there will always be various uncoordinated situations, or glasses reflect light, or the left and right are out of balance. In short, it is "teaching photographers not pleasing to the eye." Ten minutes passed after the transfer, and the mood of taking pictures also spent a lot. If the photographer says "don't move" again, it's like "the American police stopped the fugitive,' don't move!' It really scared everyone's eyes and eyes, and their smiles were stiff. It's no use telling Saycheese again and again. "

Taking pictures like this is really painful. The word is "posing". It's normal to pose with a few objects. After all, photography pays attention to light and composition, good light and good location, plus a pair of sharp eyes and wonderful hands of the photographer, a good photo can be born. Those objects never care how long it takes to pose, they are just quietly at the mercy of the photographer. Animals are different, such as cats and dogs. They can hardly stand the constraint of posing, but they can become friends by snapping pictures.

Senior animal people are different from the first two, and we all have different degrees of maverick. On the one hand, we want beautiful photos, on the other hand, we don't want to look stiff. How to pursue beauty? You can only combine shapes and snapshots. Some people choose to take pictures like models, pose themselves in a coherent way, let photographers take pictures, and then choose good-looking photos. As far as girls are concerned, it is probably more common to tidy their hair: the left hand or right hand slowly pins a strand of hair behind their ears-sometimes just doing this action-while bowing their heads or turning their heads to look sideways. The final photos are often the same posture, which is both shy and vaguely cool and fashionable.

However, the photos put out by this kind of action, both men and women, feel monotonous and tasteless after watching for a long time. How diverse and natural our beauty is! Laughing wrinkles, distant eyes, waving hands and even unintentional faces all contain agility.

Yu Guangzhong also said: "People in action, such as jumping athletes, singers, dancers and conductors with sticks, have natural and vivid expressions and postures." He also developed his own vivid photography method: "So, in recent years, when I was taking photos, I often asked the other person to save this old trick and let me look elsewhere, just waiting for him to shout' OK!'" "I suddenly looked back and looked at the camera. In this way, my expression and posture are new, and even my smile is budding. Before everything could be in a daze, the shutter flashed and it was captured in an instant. "

But if you want to sublimate a photo, for example, to sublimate it into a portrait, a photographic art, portrait posing is sometimes necessary to create artistic conception. As mentioned above, you need light, composition, sharp eyes and dexterous hands. What else do you need? The photographer's sense of lens. A person standing in front of the camera is dull and numb, and it is difficult to express it vividly after all. Sometimes creating something by yourself will be a stroke of genius. Yu Guangzhong, who faces the camera all the year round, also has this feeling:

We are greedy and want to keep all the happiness, beauty and profundity, whether it is a sunset, a portrait or a party. "Life is alive, I am greedy and stupid, I have thousands of karma and all kinds of difficulties." Freeze a period of time in a photo, let photography bear some memories for us, leave a few lines behind the photo, and the beautiful images of the past will be completely preserved.

Some people don't like taking pictures. The scene left at that time was only sad after several years, because time can't go back and memories are always sad. Photography does have this sad core, but from another perspective, the bits and pieces of life are also surviving through photos. You will know what people in the past looked like, what they wore and what they ate. You will know that you raised a lovely duck when you were a child, and you will know whether there is a fairy palace on the top of the snow-capped mountain. ...

As Yu Guangzhong wrote at the end of the article: "Tony Benn, an outstanding figure of the British Labor Party, famously said,' Most of the experiences in life are exchanged for lifelong anxiety with temporary joy; However, photography is an anxious moment in the joy of life. "No wonder so many enthusiastic photographers keep changing cameras, loading films, turning a blind eye, flashing magnesium light and brushing the shutter, knowing that the world is constantly escaping, but trying their best to keep it."