Evaluation criteria of photographic works

Teacher Xu Xizhan is entitled "Evaluation Criteria of Works". What does it focus on? How to shoot? How to shoot well? These questions give the students a simple explanation. How to make good works? For example, xu teacher said that shooting creation is like literary writing. A clear photograph is not necessarily a good work. A good article cannot cover everything. What should be written and what should not be written. That part should be described emphatically, and that part should be understated and handled properly. So is a good photographic work. The theme part must be true, the part to be expressed must be clearly photographed, and the background part is empty, just like writing an article. Things unrelated to the theme must not appear on the screen, which will interfere with the vision and weaken the theme.

Photography can be roughly divided into six categories:

1, news photography: Pay attention to communication and emphasize that works with communication value are good works. The more serious the incident, the more people will care about it, and the news will have the value of communication.

2. Artistic photography: focus on the main performance. It is important that the works should have aesthetic value, and positive thoughts and feelings should be conveyed through the works.

3. Commercial photography: focusing on profit, processing with supplied materials, as long as it meets the requirements of customers, has little to do with art ... such as commercial portraits, commercial advertisements and commercial photos. Over-exposed portraits in the photo studio only have clear eyes, nostrils and mouths, and one white covers all the ugliness. That's technology, not art. ..

4. Leisure photography: Pay attention to the process, it doesn't matter how the shooting result is, as long as the process is pleasant, just like karaoke, enjoying the process is very important, and then it is over, and the result is of little value.

5. Documentary photography: the beautiful shooting content cannot be regarded as the artistic beauty of the work in the expression of objects. Jiuzhaigou tourists also use beautiful mobile phones. The beauty of the girl is not your beauty, and the beauty of the content cannot be regarded as the beauty of the work. These can only be used for recording, which has nothing to do with art. The terrible thing is that many people mistake recording for art. ..

6. Science and technology photography: Pay attention to practicality, and the flowers and birds are clear and beautiful, but we are not engaged in scientific research. The clarity is only beauty, and we need to inject emotional elements. Only when we have thoughts can we call it a work of art.

Photography is a way of behavior and a camera is a tool. The same tool can do many things, and photography cannot be simplified. Photography is simple, but it is difficult to do simple things well. Photography is a low threshold and a high step. The threshold is outside the door and the steps are inside.

Because the essence of photography is to record and objectively reproduce the immediate scene, documentary photography plays a leading role in photography. The standard of documentary photography is "visual equivalence", which is similar to what ordinary people see. Of course, it is also a photographic work, but it is not an artistic photographic work. Artistic photography is a typical subjective expression, and its standard is "aesthetic effect", which is an artistic expression endowed with thoughts and emotions. It is important to have aesthetic value, to show a person's world outlook, outlook on life and values, and to convey positive energy is a good work. Of course, different types of photography have different value orientations, and the criteria for judging whether a work is good or not are different, because different types of photography have different value orientations, and no standard is suitable for all types of photography.

Teacher Qin Datang's explanation of photography aesthetics is vivid and interesting, and his theoretical explanation of Diderot's view that beauty comes from relationship is humorous and interesting. He said that the beauty of his works is the mutual reflection of "still life, animals, plants, scenery and social life" in his work. The beauty of works is composed of various relationships, which exist in all interactive relationships, and beauty always grows and changes with these relationships. The "relationship" that determines success or failure is fleeting, so it is easy to shine when you feel the relationship in shooting. You must have foresight and be good at capturing the instant relationship.

To manage a work, we must find the relationship elements. When taking pictures of animals, you should take two pictures instead of one, and it should be related. For example, the relationship formed by eye contact, the relationship formed by body movements, and then the color contrast of the environment. Light and shadow performances create the formal beauty of various artistic conceptions. No matter how beautiful a single object is, it is not beautiful. There must be various related elements in the United States and China, and there is a "relationship" between subject, foil and environment. Don't pick up the camera without thinking. Photography is different from photography. Beauty is not equal to beauty, and beautiful things are not necessarily beautiful. A woodcarving work of art is beautiful, but if you look at the wood carefully, it will corrode worms and maggots, so it is beautiful but not beautiful.

Beauty is all around us. Through the appreciation and interpretation of a large number of award-winning works, it is found that many works are just shooting things around them. Therefore, it doesn't matter what you shoot, what matters is how you shoot.

Photography is not a technology, but an art. Whether you can make a good work or not does not depend on the quality of photographic equipment. People who like to shoot birds, even hundreds of thousands of shots, may not be able to shoot a good work. Shooting birds can only be said to be beautiful, and the scenic spots are sky blue and water green. Everyone is rushing to shoot, and ordinary people are shooting with their mobile phones. Not much use! A good work should have relationship, artistic conception and ideological and emotional connotation. So, don't be obsessed with equipment, obsessed with sunrise and sunset. Shooting is obviously a scene reproduction, reproduction is only a record, and performance is the real art. Art photography is not only salon photography, but also an affair, a lonely sail and a camel bell in the desert. ...

Finally, the teacher expounded the forms of artistic photography from three types:

1, narrative (storytelling);

2. Lyricism (expressing an emotion);

3. Speculation (expounding an idea).

Through a day's study, I have a new criterion for judging the quality of a work, and I also understand the close relationship between photography and aesthetics, fully realize the importance of dealing with various relationships to the beauty of the work, and make clear the direction of my future shooting study.