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What is unconventional photography?

Unconventional photography is to use unconventional thinking mode, shooting means and expression techniques to reproduce and meet people's visual needs. Modern people's appreciation rules and aesthetic standards are quietly changing, and ordinary works are difficult to meet their needs. Even the audience themselves often can't tell what they like. What is the standard of beauty? What is the standard of good photos? People are often at a loss and can't say their own answers. It's like living standards have improved, and people don't know what to eat when they go to restaurants. Everything is so vacant that it is difficult to measure what is beautiful and what is a good photo by any standard. People often say: "Art comes from life." Well, let's approach life together, approach unconventional photography art different from our usual photography art, let unconventional photography art supplement and nourish every nerve cell that lacks nutrition and creativity, and let unconventional photography's unique innovative characteristics enrich our aesthetic quality, so as to improve our artistic quality, guide our artistic behavior and enhance our insight. Then our photography behavior is not just simple photography, but the behavior of upgrading quality to art, which I call unconventional. Only unconventional behaviors and unconventional forms of expression can impress and attract the attention of viewers and satisfy their visual requirements and aesthetic aspirations. Conventional photography takes pictures according to the general thinking rules, while unconventional photography should break through the shackles of all thinking habits and consciously "be unconventional". So as to achieve the effect of "pleasing to the eye" or even "surprise and shock" for the viewer. Unconventional photography is a step further than conventional photography in concept. When we do unconventional photography, we definitely don't shoot everything we see like conventional photography, or just stay in highlighting the conventional aesthetic feeling of photographic materials. But before shooting, the photographer should have a conscious and profound thinking. This kind of thinking is definitely not only at the technical level, but also pays more attention to "what am I going to shoot" and "how to shoot a movie with my own real personality". In this sense, unconventional photography requires a photographer to be not only a photographer, but also a thinker. In unconventional photography, we should think with a strong subjective consciousness and explore the meaning of photos as deeply as possible through photos.