Learning Humanities Photography from photographers in Europe

One, keep smiling

You may have had this experience: when you stand on the street with a lens ready to shoot the protagonist, the other side also aware of your focus and quiet oppression, looking back at you, a feeling of embarrassment from your heart spontaneously ...

This is almost every street photography novice must Journey, in 2011, Zhang Yong shared the story of his filming of Eastern European Gypsies: "Filming in a Gypsy's village is not easy, and the closed town suddenly sees the attention of visitors outside, especially the Oriental face with the camera, and it does attract a lot of notice ...". The film was developed with a lot of exposures that he believed was evidence of stage fright,

　　

But it also made him realize that if the effort to get good pictures went beyond the photographer's comprehension, the story would not become a work on the negatives ... The value of the meter is only a reference, the most reliable and the most intimate way is to feel empathy to experience the frequency of breathing on both sides of the viewing window. Next time, find the protagonist of the lens look back, may as well take out self-confidence to release goodwill, try to smile to each other, if you can, and the other side more chat, perhaps can build Friendship Bridge Oh!

Second, the concept of the picture

In addition to the emphasis on photography, the most difficult to handle is the distance. Irrelevant to the focal length of the lens, I mean not 28 centimeters or 135 centimeters, but the distance between the steps and the story. ”?? Zhang Yong

　　

Some people say that photography is the moment of freezing the world, but Zhang Yong that photography emphasizes that the past and the future meet when the structure of the world produced by what corresponds to the adjustment, sounds very philosophical, in fact, is nothing more than the story you want to elaborate, try to draw the scene in the brain, using your keen observation around the rhythm, To connect roles, remember that you are the Director, to conceive an intriguing story for your photo!

Third, patiently waiting

The bustling streets, waiting for the moment when passers-by start, towering buildings, waiting for a standing in front of a figure, swinging in the park, waiting for two long shadow ... In the street photography is often waiting, we wait for a pair of scenery, the right person, in that moment, take the picture of the desire to convey, and this process, the most need not to investigate the efficiency. A roll of 36 negatives is like a world, the shutter pressed the moment is only the preface of a Story, memory and imagination between the fatalistic wrestling and entanglement summon a series of images.

　　

Zhang Yong said: "In the description of photography, efficiency is the most often overlooked word, it is impossible to say to himself:" In the afternoon I will stay in the park for three hours, after the end must take five good photos. " If this is the passion you are willing to invest in your lifetime to achieve the interests or aspirations, naturally will not rush to immediate results, the three hours/five "good photos" of the myth will not bother you, because you enjoy the process of that some kind of secret ceremony Shibu happy.

Iv. Exchange and observation

After a period of filming, perhaps you will encounter some bottlenecks, then a lot of reading, visit the exhibition may bring you different stimuli, ordinary and photography to exchange or browse predecessors of the works, can not imagine the inspiration. Zhang Yong shared, while studying in Prague, professor and senior Czech photographer Victor Corah (Viktor Kolar) raised the mystery of Oriental "towards learning", thinking that "if you choose the right face, the dramatic nature of the photo will be created." "Zhang Yong in the process of photography should also testify to this sentence: indeed, these years the experience of the European shooting has repeatedly proved that came to a certain age, people's personality and state of mind, or, that" inner expression ", more or less will leave engraved on the face of the imprint.

　　

In front of the group of strangers in the life, those seemingly most inconspicuous but also revealed the strong tension of the plot, that sometimes the word, sometimes the intersection of the moment of pleasure, like a certain script in the puzzle and the apparent evidence. The shutter every time the crisp sound is a reflection, remind yourself not to forget, to continue to ask me where? What is the relationship with the world in front of you? The introduction of photography is actually very simple, but the world of light and Shadow is very wonderful, let countless people chasing and love, back on camera, to take the most beautiful moment. Photography actually brings us a kind of pursuit of a beautiful life, because want to film more beautiful, so will go to explore and search. The above is a tutorial network small series for everyone carefully collected content, hope can be a beginner photography friends benefit Oh.