The road of photography art

The camera has only one eye-the lens, which can record a corner of the visible world. Photographers have a second choice. The artist has a third eye, full of original imagination. Only the third eye can see through people's inner world-Steinbeck

In the era of national photography, everyone has their own shooting equipment and strives to express themselves. However, with the proliferation of photographic works, the number of photographic works of art has not increased. Although everyone wants to shoot better, they don't know what a good photographic work is, let alone art.

In most people's hands, photography has only completed the action of pressing the shutter, but it has not become an art. The road of photography art is very long, and I don't know how to start, let alone what road to take.

Even if I don't pursue such a high standard and don't want to lead to the art of photography, at least I hope my shooting works can be better and more aesthetic.

How can I make photographic works of art?

* Equipment

:: Technology

If you want to do a good job, you must sharpen your tools first. A good work is inseparable from photographic equipment. It's a pity that some people pursue equipment too much, thinking that photography must be SLR or even totally reversed, and must have first-class lenses. Equipment is important, so we must not pursue parameters and models excessively. That's not photography, but simply equipping the party and eventually becoming an "old mage."

"Old Master" refers to those who are generally older, use the top-class fuselage, use the thickest, longest and largest lens, like to wear a camera vest and carry a camera bag, enjoy the envious eyes of others, and are good at being a teacher and dismissive of equipment.

Choosing different equipment according to different needs is the key to meet basic needs.

Technology determines the lower limit and aesthetics determines the upper limit. It is naturally better to use good equipment for photographic works, but it is personal aesthetics that limits photographic art and reaches a certain level. Even mobile phones can shoot works of art. In the past, masters used card machines to leave outstanding works.

Photographic works of art are roughly divided into three levels, which also represent three aesthetic angles:

* Invisible

* unusual

* Never seen it.

Since photographic works of art are all works of art, there must be differences, at least beyond our usual vision.

Typical contact photos are shown in the following figure:

The biggest feature of the first work is the blurring of the background under a large aperture. Under normal circumstances, our human eyes will not see this scene, only through photography can it be shown.

The second work is a black and white world. Similarly, we can't understand the black and white world through photography. There used to be a ridiculous saying that "black and white is not enough", which shows that black and white can also enhance the sense of art to a certain extent.

Mobile phone shooting, switching to black and white, may immediately have a different feeling.

The third work can feel the impact of speed. Even if we are sitting in a high-speed car, there is no way to describe the changes brought about by speed intuitively. Photographs express this change of emotion and objective world.

None of the three works can be observed by the naked eye, but at the same time they express personal feelings and intentions, which we can't see, while photography expresses them and makes us see what we can't see. The first angle of photographic works of art is to capture the invisible.

It was not easy to show the above works before, and it needed darkroom treatment to have such an effect. Technology determines the lower limit, and now it can be realized by mobile phones, eliminating the complicated darkroom operation.

If you have a mobile phone, you can refer to the above works and rise to a higher level through virtual reality, black and white and delay.

Although invisibility is something that our human eyes can't directly image, it is still based on the world we see in general, and the form may be different, but it is all scenes that we can touch and belong to our lives, that is, from different angles.

The aesthetics of the next level is different, and it belongs to a rare scene, as shown below:

Aurora, if not in the polar regions, must be hard to see. It is not common to see the invisible in the visible. Need special lighting, special places, special people and other conditions, the scene itself is very rare.

The basic conditions of shooting limit us, and we have to further process on this basis to appreciate the unusual photographic works of art.

I have never seen the extreme imagination, and I am extremely harsh on the photographer's personal cultivation. It can be said that it transcends the location, transcends the limitations of the naked eye, and directly takes you to a world you have never seen before, which is as magical as Genesis.

Just like Steve Jobs's product philosophy, don't ask the public what they need. We don't know what we want. What Mr. Joe created is what we want.

So is the highest state of photography. Don't ask for parameters or locations. It doesn't matter anymore. I'll show you the real art form of photography directly.

The art of photography is a combination of photography and art, just like the above works, which are invisible scenes that do not exist in reality, and present art to photography. In the final analysis, the road of photography art is not to lead everyone to see the world they have never seen before, and to lead the beauty of art alone.

The sky seems to have turned into a drawing board, turning the sky into an oil painting, which is not all oil paintings, but more like the traces of time after the passage of the sky. Jumping colors attract people's attention and interpret the beauty of the sky.

The road of photography art is not easy, every stage needs to be accumulated, and learning has changed from disorder to self-contained.

When I first entered the road of photography, I have seen such works, and I may be longing for when I can shoot such works myself!

When you see more and more such works, what seems to be missing from them?

If everyone has the same style and lacks recognition, we can't tell whose work it is when we see it. Photography often has its own unique style with the author's own understanding of the world.

No matter what the final work is, you must find your own shadow, otherwise everyone will shoot the same. What's the point?

Invisible, uncommon and invisible is the process of exploring the road of photography art and also the process of finding yourself. Just like Picasso's works, it is easy to remind people of his style through his later abstract paintings.

The road of photography art is the process of breaking the invisible, breaking the extraordinary and seeing the invisible.

The road of photography art needs not only tools on equipment, but also tools to amplify one's ideas. It used to be processed by darkroom, but now it is interpreted by software, commonly known as post-stage.

The later stage not only refers to the peeling and acne removal in the beauty mobile phone, but also refers to the later stage, not the later stage.

The whole process of a work is like composing and playing. Music alone is not enough to show people your thoughts, it needs to be interpreted.

In addition to the composition and light thinking in the early stage, photos need to enlarge or exaggerate your ideas in the later stage.

There are many kinds of post-operations on the internet to turn decay into magic, and there is an illusion that as long as you learn well in the later stage, you can shoot whatever you want in the early stage. Maybe I have the idea of learning ps. After all, I really can't shoot well, and I can fix it later.

The early stage is relative to the cooking materials, and the later stage is cooking. You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. The last meal should be done well, the materials are very important, and you will be given a pile of garbage, and even the best cooking skills will have no place to play.

Without a good composition, how to interpret it?

Technology determines the lower limit and aesthetics determines the upper limit. The post-processing steps become quite simple, and the technology makes the post-processing less complicated and difficult than darkroom processing.

Look at the photos shared by friends, and you will know how to show them to the public without beauty and filters.

Using the software in the mobile phone to process photographic works is equivalent to fast food, which is not bad, but the demand is different. After all, it takes a lot of effort to really make a Manchu-Chinese banquet.

Although Mito's beauty is fast, it is quite rough and does not reflect the details. Good photographic works of art are more and more attractive, and the more you look at them, the more you can find details and stories that you haven't noticed.

Although technology has brought us a lot of convenience, it is still inseparable from the content that photographic works need to express. Later technology supports the form of photographic works, and the form of photographic works serves the photographic content at the same time, which complement each other.

I hope that here, everyone can have a relatively systematic understanding of the later stage of photography.

The best way to learn photography is to shoot quickly, not focusing on equipment, but on aesthetics.

Technology determines the lower limit, just making it easier for you to realize your idea. Aesthetics determines the upper limit, which is the bottleneck. Only by improving aesthetics can we go further and further on the road of photography.

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