Why can't you always take good photos?

Eight thinking habits that can take good photos.

Interpretation of the main points of this paper:

First, shooting is more important than shooting well.

Second, fun is more important than looking good.

Third, black and white are sometimes more attractive than color.

Fourth, the part is more attractive than the whole.

5. Make your photo worthy of a poem.

6. Make sure the photos are different.

Seven, keep shooting in key areas.

Eight, bold cutting.

First, shooting is more important than shooting well.

Compared with the photography of professional digital cameras, mobile phones usually shoot interesting scenes we see in our daily life, or scenes we think are meaningful. In this sense, when shooting with a mobile phone, shooting is far more important than shooting well. Moreover, it is the era of reading pictures, and the concept of no picture and no truth has been deeply rooted in people's hearts. Therefore, if you want to express an emotion, or convey an idea and express a scene by hand photography, even a photo that looks less beautiful and has a slightly poor picture quality is better than nothing.

Whether the photographer himself or the person who appreciates the photos, the standards are different when appreciating the photos taken by mobile phones. Specifically, people don't evaluate a photo taken by a mobile phone by the same standard as a photo taken by a professional digital camera. Therefore, when shooting with a mobile phone, you don't need to worry about image quality or depth of field. Shooting should be the biggest criterion.

Looking at the outstanding works won in previous mobile phone photography competitions, we will find that the scenes in the photos are often rare, which means that the timing of shooting is often fleeting. Therefore, it is difficult for a photographer to make a careful composition and light distribution, so it is difficult to make such photos into beautiful photos with good light, color, shape and shadow.

For example, the following photo is a typical example. In this photo, the old man in the cage is in sharp contrast with the pigeon, conveying a strong sense of drama and humor. The moment when photos are recorded, it seems to tell the story of the old man's life. Such scenes are hard to find, so the principle of shooting first and then shooting well is to ensure that such scenes are not missed.

You may say that people were photographed abroad, where there are pigeons in the square, but these are not important. The original of this photo is actually very ordinary.

Winners' Works in 2065438+2005 Global iPhone Photography Competition

Second, fun is more important than looking good.

This is an era of image explosion. Every day, countless photos are born from various photographic equipment including mobile phones and applied to various media. So it can be said that most people have watched countless movies. At the same time, it is also a new media era that pays attention to scarcity and changes rapidly. Everyone is surrounded by all kinds of new media. For every photographer, as long as he knows the above two points, he should be able to understand why those seemingly calm photos are difficult to attract everyone's attention.

Some photographers think that photos should be taken better, but the answer is not the case. Although beautiful photos can easily attract the attention of most people, this attention will not last long. If viewing time is defined, this kind of attention may be only 3~5 seconds longer than that of the photos that are not very good-looking, because in the post-technological development today, in this new media era, there are too many good-looking photos.

So how do you get more attention from your photography? An important skill is to make photos interesting.

Interesting photos can often arouse the audience's deep concern and imagination, because "interesting" is a pleasant accident and a surprise. Every interesting photo usually has an interesting story behind it. When the audience sees such photos, they can't help inferring the cause and effect of this interesting moment and exploring the story behind the photos. This will make the photos have a strong connection with the audience, so it can also make such photos stand out.

The following two photos both use the expression of wrong vision, one is like lifting a person with one hand, and the other is like two people trying to swallow a car. Both photos are very interesting.

Third, black and white are sometimes more attractive than color.

It is a well-known fact that compared with the photos taken by professional digital cameras, the photos taken by mobile phones are processed into a large number of black and white tones. There are two reasons for this situation, one is subjective and the other is objective.

Subjectively speaking, black-and-white photos can better reflect the photographer's ideological connotation and creative intention, and are more symbolic, simpler and more imaginative. Image and color are two important elements of photography. The color of color photos will attract and weaken the audience's attention to the image. In essence, children know the world, and image is more important than color. Therefore, when a photo has no color, the image of things in the photo becomes the most important and only entrance for people to know the world through photos, which also explains why black and white photos are purer and more direct and thorough.

Objectively speaking, because the picture quality of mobile phones is not high, the noise of photos taken with mobile phones can not be ignored, especially in poor light, and the noise will be very obvious. However, if color photos are converted into black and white photos, these noises will be converted from unfavorable factors to favorable factors, because in the film age, the noise of photos will be considered as a way to increase the texture.

It must be emphasized here that photos taken under any light will look good when converted into black and white, and only those photos with clear structure, sharp contrast between light and shadow, obvious texture and prominent subject will look better when converted into black and white photos.

Fourth, the part is more attractive than the whole.

Part and whole are actually a philosophical proposition. Materialist dialectics holds that everything is an organic whole composed of parts, and parts cannot be separated from the whole, and the whole is higher than the parts. The two depend on each other and influence each other.

Take taking pictures of flowers as an example. When composing a composition, don't put all the flowers in the picture, only put the most beautiful and distinctive parts of the flowers in the picture for shooting, and ensure the balance of the picture and elegant lines, which can make the whole picture more intriguing. This is because when we show some parts of flowers in this way, in popular words, people who look at photos will automatically "brain the rest of the flowers". When different people appreciate such photos, thousands of people may work at the same time, but everyone will feel that they are still unfinished and have pictures outside. But if the flowers are taken as a whole, people's imagination will be nailed, and the viewer has no room for imagination at all. This kind of photo is a bit boring.

The reason for shooting other subjects is the same. For example, using local close-ups to show the exotic knocker on the gate, on the one hand, can make the audience look at this detailed knocker carefully, on the other hand, it can also make people have infinite associations with the shooting location, the gate and the scenery behind the door.

5. Make your photo worthy of a poem.

Photography and painting are both plane visual arts, and the development history of photography at all times and in all countries is much smaller than that of painting, so photography should learn from painting in visual communication. For example, there is a theory in the field of painting in China that poetry and painting are the same. There were poems in Zhang Shunmin in Song Dynasty, that is, there were poems in sound and paintings in shape. "It can be seen that since ancient times, there has been a theory of the homology of poetry, painting and calligraphy. When paintings are replaced by photographs, the theory of the unity of poetry and painting is also applicable.

Just making a photo worthy of poetry here does not simply mean that the audience can associate a Tang poem or a Song poem when they see this photo, but that this photo has an artistic conception contained in a poem or a word, and the audience can appreciate the meaning of this poem or word from the photo.

For example, a photo of a desert, if the scenery in the photo coincides with the scene described in the poem "The desert is lonely and the long river sets the yen", it would be wonderful. Even if they can't overlap, it is also conducive to the audience to appreciate the rough and magnificent artistic conception from the photos. You know, not everyone who appreciates photos can be familiar with Tang poetry and Song poetry, so even if the photos taken by photographers are a true portrayal of a Tang poetry or a Song poetry, the viewers are good. But most of the audience can appreciate the artistic conception contained in poetry. As mentioned above, even if the audience doesn't know these two poems, they can appreciate the magnificent artistic conception contained in these two poems, and such photos are also successful.

For example, the following photo can remind people of the poem "Monks in the mountains don't know how to count their nails, and a leaf falls to know the autumn on earth".

6. Make sure the photos are different.

In fact, whether taking interesting photos, shooting parts of things, or converting color photos into black and white photos, there is only one purpose, that is, making photos more distinctive and interesting, thus attracting the attention of the audience. Because in this era of reading pictures, everyone with reading ability will be surrounded by a huge number of photos. If you want to stand out from such photos, photos must have their own characteristics. From this point of view, every photographer can make full use of all kinds of photography skills and methods to achieve this goal when the law and social morality permit.

Therefore, before taking a photo, if possible, we should seriously consider whether the scenery in this photo is interesting, beautiful, unique and rare, or ugly to attract the attention of the audience. Before shooting, if you want to know how your photos are different from those taken by some people, then the probability of success will increase.

For example, in the photo below, the sunflower in strong contrast gives people a feeling of narcissism, and the whole picture looks very bright.

Seven, keep shooting in key areas.

This principle is especially suitable for photographers who often use their mobile phones to "sweep the streets" and take documentary photos. If you are a photography enthusiast and have the experience of "sweeping the streets", you must know that it is not easy to shoot a few or even an excellent documentary photography by "sweeping the streets". It seems that interesting details and unforgettable scenes can be seen everywhere in public life, but to preserve these dramatic pictures, photographers need not only extraordinary insight, but also skilled shooting skills.

One of the most important shooting techniques is quick capture. Because the photographer has no specific subject when sweeping the street, he is also in a relatively free state.

Perhaps the ordinary scene at one moment will be greatly reversed at the next, so those experienced photographers are always on high alert in crowded areas where stories are more likely to appear. When the battery is sufficient, always keep the phone turned on, and bring up the shooting picture of the camera, and put your finger next to the shutter button to ensure that the photographer can complete the shooting action in the first time. From this point of view, mobile phones are much more convenient than professional digital cameras.

For example, the following two photos were taken on the subway, which is a place where stories often happen. Of course, you must not shoot at rush hour, when people are crowded and the distance is close, so it is impossible to shoot.

In front of you, you can live in the distance.

Mobile photo frame-underground gate

Eight, bold cutting.

Photos taken by mobile phones are generally not printed into large-size photos, but are generally only enjoyed on mobile phones or computers, without worrying about the number of pixels. After shooting, you can boldly cut them to make the focus of the photo more prominent and the theme more vivid.

For example, the small picture below is the original picture, and the whole scene looks messy, but the subject and theme are immediately clear after the photo is cropped.

find

Some pictures and texts in this article have come to the network. Thank you. If there is any infringement, please contact Shanggu to delete it.

Ok, this sharing is over. If you like it, you can like it and share it with more friends in need. See you next time.