Get out of the misunderstanding of self-taught photography composition

Lead: in my opinion, composition has little to do with rational and blunt technology, mainly with? Beautiful? Related. In other words, the composition has nothing to do with whether you hold up the camera or not, and has nothing to do with what grade of camera you shoot with. Composition is just a way of looking at the world in your eyes. Therefore, composition is more of perceptual beauty, emotional composition, and also the beauty of photography contention.

Misunderstanding of composition learning: binding creativity

In many photography books, many composition methods are analyzed, such as trisection, cross composition, X composition or triangle composition. There is no problem in the analysis of these methods, but we notice that there is a problem here. Many of these analyses are done after taking photos, and some people go to see the photo analysis. According to the works of many masters, many methods are analyzed, and then written into books and sold. To tell the truth, when you see a work, as long as it looks comfortable and you have to analyze it, you can analyze a lot of theoretical basis, which is actually just the idea of future generations. The photographer didn't think so much at first, but raised his camera and took pictures. Many of them are subconscious composition, subconscious behavior and subconscious shooting. Some moments are only one second, where do you really think so much?

The reason why I want to do a lot of composition analysis is to give you some reference, train line thinking and cultivate the consciousness of finding orderly lines and points. I don't want many people to worry about whether I am a three-point composition method or a triangular composition method when they hold up their cameras. This is a problem for many newcomers. I think I have seen a lot of composition methods, and I raised my camera and thought, how can I write? After a long struggle, the opportunity was missed. Or ask an expert to analyze it after filming: Look at my composition, right? In fact, where is right or wrong? Are you the only one who looks comfortable? Many times, you look comfortable and he looks uncomfortable. A survey of 100 people shows that there are few works that make everyone comfortable. In most cases, they just kill time in their own eyes. Some people are comfortable looking at the entry, some people have changed the top-level equipment, and they know the technical theory by heart, but they still can't take pictures that look comfortable. What's the problem? Personally, I think many people are full of technical data, theoretical methods and too many choices when taking pictures. But I can't concentrate on taking pictures with my true temperament and expressing beauty with my emotions. Originally, I had an idea, but I was constantly disturbed by the theory of composition rules that I knew by heart. I have been entangled in sesame seeds or corn, and the results are different.

Composition is actually to discover beauty and then show it reasonably.

The so-called aesthetics is what the older generation of photographers said in their popular images: photographic eyes. For example, if you and your friends are walking on the roadside after work, others will see that the street lamp on your head is warm, the traffic is dense and the sky is as deep as poetry, and you will take out your camera and take a picture in an instant. But you didn't find such a beautiful blend of time, place and people, walking quietly. Is it too early to talk about composition if you don't even have the consciousness to find the clues of beauty? Therefore, I have always advocated that composition is more about perceptual aesthetics. This can't be solved just by looking at the master's photographs. Generally speaking, it is to improve one's beauty cultivation, beauty and inspiration. Be able to be sensitive to beautiful things at the first time, find beauty instantly, find something worth shooting, and then train reasonable composition. Some people think that the most effective way to learn photography is to look at the works of masters, but I don't think so. Just kidding, have you ever seen a master painter who only copied other people's works and achieved his own painting style? Whether copying or appreciating a work, it is just a way to learn and learn from it. More things are beyond photography, your beautiful feelings about the world, life and the elements of the four seasons. Without this, after reading the works of tens of thousands of masters, all they can do is to imitate and copy, without the realm and thoughts of masters, so they will make something that is four unlike.

Composition, in my personal understanding, is everyone's view of the world. For example, the West Lake, some people regard it as an ordinary Hubo city park, while others regard it as poetic. Ink painting in the mountains and boating in the lake can be so kind. In fact, there is nothing wrong with the former and the latter. Analyze the West Lake with the logical thinking of science students. It is a park in a city, which is bigger and richer than ordinary parks at most. However, a perceptual person has a perceptual knowledge of the West Lake in literature and art, and that landscape is a painting. Seeing it with eyes will naturally find beauty. Nature and science students have different sense of logical lines and pictures. At least in the sense of picture, there will be more emotional expressions and beautiful angles. Without this literary accomplishment and accumulation, it would not be the West Lake, because it has become a cultural symbol under the influence of literati thousands of years ago. Thick makeup is always appropriate, and elegance is the beauty of Su Shi's planning of the West Lake. I have been to West Lake for more than 20 times, and I have seen Snow Lake, Rain Lake, Morning Lake and her four seasons, but I still feel that I don't understand West Lake.

So, my understanding of composition, to some extent, is before you lift the camera. Before lifting the camera, it is emotional. After lifting the camera, how to shoot it is mixed with the application of rational technology theory. This study must be separated. If you are always full of rational data and theories to compose a composition, let alone the beauty of the shot, at least how much is the work missing? Human flavor? Sure, this? Human flavor? A ridiculous statement means that there is a kind of temperament beauty missing in it. Since it is a logical theory, it can be imitated. It is the same as the industry standard. Anyone can imitate, not to mention composition, just find a cloned copy with the same angle as others. Composition is the essence of the beauty of photography because everyone has a different world. I can find another world from your eyes that I can't see. When I look back, that person is there, and the lights are dim.

Suggestions on systematic study of composition

Zhuangzi said? It goes without saying that there is great beauty in heaven and earth. ? Everything in the world, in your work map, under the tree in your community, and even on the ground, can train a line aesthetic ability. If it is too limited to a picture to analyze, it is too limited. The so-called composition learning and training is to rearrange the world in your eyes from the chaotic world elements.

Speaking of systematic learning, many cinematographers will understand that there should be a clause similar to "1234", that is, what to do first, then what to do, just like teaching writing by hand. Personally, I understand that systematic learning is just a learning method and idea, and not everything is copied by hand. Text sharing can only talk about methods and ideas. I personally share my views on composition learning and cultivation after studying photography for more than ten years, for the reference of some film friends only.

1, seeking inspiration and creativity from works of art, photography and painting are the same, there is no need to focus on the photography industry and not see other art forms. Art works should not only be seen in the west, but also learn to appreciate art works in different periods in the East. Besides impressionism, western painting pays more attention to realism in the early morning, with a strong sense of concavity and convexity, which conforms to the logic of light and shadow and creates a sense of space. Oriental paintings, especially literati paintings after the Song Dynasty, are more concise and beautiful in freehand brushwork lines, which is also in line with photographic composition? Subtraction? Aesthetics. If you watch more, you will naturally see the world with different emotions and eyes, and the works you shoot will naturally be different.

2. Good architectural works are the best teachers of lighting and composition in photography. Master I.M. Pei famously said: The soul of architecture is light. The same is true of photographic works. It's just a guideline for systematic composition. It is a good inspiration to visit the design of excellent buildings when you are free. For example, the design of Suzhou Museum and Suzhou Railway Station combines the essence of the use of light. These are the great beauty of living around, but the beauty of silence. If you turn a blind eye, then holding a camera and deliberately saying that it is to discover beauty is a bit far away.

3. Heavy literary accomplishment can make you look at the world more poetically, instead of tossing and turning between boring logical theoretical data but eating tasteless. No matter what you shoot or how you compose the composition, the work is full of flavor, vitality and emotion, which is always one of the standards of a good work. No matter how many theoretical data there are, a work without any emotion or aesthetic feeling will always be unremarkable. And all this is closely related to shooting inner emotional feelings. Buddhists have a saying: bodhisattvas are all bodhisattvas in their eyes, and all beings are all sentient beings in their eyes. This is a fact.

Summary:

In any case, the final work of photography is art. If you just record it with a camera, you don't need to study anything, just shoot it in automatic mode. If you want to rise to the field of beauty, it is to rise to the field of art. Since it is art, it is emotional, for people to see and convey. Instead of taking a bunch of photos and analyzing theoretical data there.