Rebirth of top photographers

Chapter 1 The Untalented Photographer

"Crack!"

"Look what you took?"

"Don't have talent? Don't enter the photography department!"

Chen Pingsheng suddenly woke up from the sofa, like a drowning person breaking free from a deep river. He slid to the ground with a large movement and sat down in front of the coffee table.

"Hmm." He pressed his temple. The occasional dull pain in his temple made him feel uncomfortable.It has been two days since he was reborn in this body, and Chen Pingsheng, who has already accepted his fate, bid farewell to his past with a hangover last night.

Say goodbye to that senior commercial photographer who could sell a set of photos for tens of thousands of yuan and make a lot of money every day, but died in an avalanche.

Now, he is a senior intern in the photography department, Chen Pingsheng, who comes from an ordinary family, has an ordinary education, and has an extraordinary appearance.

But he felt very painful when he thought about the top-of-the-line camera in his previous life that he had only taken half a year after paying the deposit, but he hadn't even taken a few photos yet.

It's as painful as a fisherman who caught a twenty-pound fish but failed to catch it because the net was too small!
But luckily there is a system that makes up for it.

"Art Photography Master is activated. If there are any questions, system users are asked to check the question mark in the upper right corner of the entry." A prompt sounded in the head.

Chen Pingsheng looked to the right side of his eyes, and a simple UI interface appeared in front of him.

"Attributes"

"Photography Book"

"Props"

When you click on the properties interface, there are only a few lines of text.

"Name: Chen Pingsheng"

"Photography: 21"

"Photography inspiration: 4"

"Photography field of view: 5"

Chen Pingsheng subconsciously looked at the question marks behind each noun.

The small question mark immediately faded, and a short sentence explaining the noun appeared on the interface.

"Photography technology: digital technology, film technology, typesetting technology"

He has studied these terms very closely in the past few days. Digital technology and film technology are easy to understand. As the name suggests, it is the technology of using a camera, plus film development technology.

Typesetting technology refers to the typesetting of photographic albums or photography books. Although the photos generally seen by the public appear in single sheets, for photographers, photography books are an important carrier of their own artistic expression.Photo layout and order often affect the viewer’s experience.

There are many photos that cannot be understood by looking at them alone, but once placed in the entire photography book, they will form a whole artistic expression.

"Photography inspiration: used to capture or predict key moments in photography"

"Photographic vision: plays a decisive role in finding shooting angles and picture composition"

Although these two items are much abstract, it is not difficult to understand their meaning based on Chen Pingsheng's past experience.

Many novices will encounter the following two situations when shooting.

First, I couldn’t find the right angle and composition when taking the photo. After taking the photo, I found that the background was messy, which affected the look and feel of the photo.

Second, when sweeping the street, I suddenly encountered some rare interactive scenes, but because I didn't realize it, I missed the opportunity and missed the scene, which led to regrets.

In this, inspiration and vision, that is, the sensitivity of photography, play a very important role.Looking at the masters at home and abroad, they not only have a unique personal style, but also have a strong ability to capture the picture. Often, many of the photos that are famous in the history of photography are due to tricky angles and compositions, or are captured in a moment. Key screen.

Of course, this kind of sensitivity to photography can be trained. The simplest way is to use your own eyes as lenses. When you see any scene or picture, you can immediately turn the concrete into an abstract picture. Everything is seen as a composition of color and geometry.This is also called the "photographic eye."

Chen Pingsheng fully understood these things. What he was wondering about was why his own attributes were so pitifully low.

After all, he is also an experienced mage who has been filming for ten years. How can he be like a beginner?
Is it because of the talent of this body?

He could only blame it on this for the time being, but it didn't matter. He felt that with his own experience, he could quickly improve the value.

Then, Chen Pingsheng looked at the "Photography Book", which is a classic mission system.

The system requires him to submit 10 photos in the "Photography Book" every week, with no limit on content.The system will automatically give an overall score based on its artistry, with a total of eight grades from SSS to C. After scoring, you will receive corresponding rewards and draw N random props.

The highest level has 20 drawing opportunities, while the lowest level C has no reward. This actually motivates Chen Pingsheng in disguise. Don’t just focus on the quality of a photo. A real photographer must be a qualified boatman. Takes responsibility for all photos.

However, Chen Pingsheng's scalp went numb when he saw this kind of reward for gambling character. In his previous life, he was confident in everything except his gambling luck.Guys like him who play Landlords as long as they get four twos will definitely be king. They don't have any hope for their own luck. They can only say that betting on a big hand will bring about miracles.

Looking at the "Props" column again, two days later, there are still no novice benefits. It is empty, just like the wine bottle he drank up last night.

As for whether the system has other functions, he doesn't know yet. He will probably not be able to understand the system until he settles the accounts in the first week.

After reading the system, he sorted out in his mind what he knew so far.

This world is completely different from the previous one. Although the politics and economy are almost the same, the field of photography is basically in its infancy.Because camera manufacturers appeared much later, few people are involved in the field of artistic photography. People's appreciation of photos still remains within the scope of news photography, landscape photography, and freehand landscape photography. Professional photographers also regard this as Templates, a large number of photos with rigid compositions and empty content flood the platform, and they are all about people and scenery similar to news photos.In addition, there is the patchwork style of freehand landscape photography.

In the original Earth Star, the landscape freehand school, also known as collection photography, was an exploration of photography and Chinese painting by masters during the Republic of China. On the basis of photography, darkroom technology was used to add many unique Chinese images to the photos, making them Closer to the texture of ancient paintings.

This approach has advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is that it is more conducive to conveying the beauty of Chinese paintings to the world, but the disadvantage is that it conforms to outsiders' stereotypes of the country. Although it was highly praised for a time, its essence has gradually broken away from the scope of photography.

In this world, this phenomenon is even more serious. Many people are not satisfied with taking pictures of a single mountain and river, and paint various auspicious clouds and cranes on it. They even imitate paintings and leave their own inscriptions on the photos, which is called "photography". Antique.Rather than taking pictures, it is better to say that they are using cameras to imitate paintings, completely discarding the beauty of nature.

Moreover, Chen Pingsheng has been surfing the Internet intensively in the past two days and found that the current level of cameras is about the same as that of his previous life around 2010. Major manufacturers have launched products that include new technologies and high-definition video recording functions, and the luxury camera brands he is familiar with All those manufacturers were nowhere to be seen.Similar camera products are mostly manufactured by a few independent niche manufacturers, with low sales. They can only survive by relying on their unique retro appearance.

In other words, the camera he bought in his previous life will probably not appear again in this life.

This reminded him even more of that top-notch camera that died before it even took off, and his heart ached even more.

In addition to these, the world is not without good things. Due to the well-established industry unions and very smooth communication around the world, the photography circle has had its own mature grand prix from the beginning.

"Freeze World" is a top competition that photographers all over the world will inevitably participate in. As long as you are over 18 and certified as a photographer by the official software "Photo Circle", you can participate for a small registration fee.

Held once a year, works are collected from July to October, reviewed and selected in November, and the results are announced in December.This is the stage that countless photographers dream of. As long as they win the award, they can prove their strength and move towards a life of making money every day.

It is now the end of August, and there is still more than a month left before the collection ends.

Chen Pingsheng decided to participate immediately. Although the work has not been shot yet, he is confident that he will fight his way among the contestants!
But just after he opened the "Shadow Circle" app, he suddenly froze.

Because this account named "Happy Xiao Chen" has no photographer certification at all!

"Ha!" Chen Pingsheng looked carefully again. Sure enough, photographer certification requires one platform recommendation and one thousand fans.The account "Happy Xiao Chen" has posted countless photos over the past three years, but has only 4 poor fans.

His parents and his two ex-girlfriends.

"No wonder that teacher said you had no talent. He didn't scold you!" Chen Pingsheng put down his phone and looked at the ceiling.

Now he has one more task: to become a platform-certified photographer within a month!

　Invest with confidence

　　
　
(End of this chapter)