Rebirth of top photographers

Chapter 12 The Necessity of Optical Magnification

"Uncle Lin, this is what I need. Can you develop the photos in the next two days?"

On the second floor, Chen Pingsheng chatted with Boss Lin about the processing of two rolls of film, which were photos he took from Yao Village.

"No problem!" Boss Lin patted his chest for assurance. He smoothed the bangs in front of his forehead and felt that his body was beginning to gain energy.

After all, Chen Pingsheng was not just developing the film this time, but was planning to optically enlarge one of the pictures to a size of 48 inches.

What is the concept of 48 inches, which is equal to 75*110 centimeters. If it is placed vertically, it can completely accommodate a person's upper body.

When the photo is made so large, the look and feel will obviously be completely different from ordinary photos. Generally, such large photos are only used in film festivals.

If you want to make it so large, the frame size of the shooting is very important.Like a full-frame camera, after enlarging the image to a dozen inches at most, the image will become blurry and grainy if it is larger.

Only medium format and large format cameras can challenge larger sizes.

This is also a factor Chen Pingsheng took into consideration when buying a camera.

And unlike digital enlargement, optical enlargement of film, although more troublesome, will also provide more texture.

Optical amplification is actually easy to understand. To put it simply, it means treating the entire darkroom as a camera, the photosensitive paper as the film, and the light bulb as the light source. The original photo is copied and enlarged to the photosensitive paper of the corresponding size.Everyone knows that no other light source is allowed in the darkroom except red light. In fact, this is because photosensitive paper cannot see light.

Boss Lin has been running a film store for more than ten years, so he is naturally familiar with this process, but fewer and fewer people use optical magnification.Nowadays, more and more people are changing this kind of service to experiential type, allowing customers to experience the amplification by themselves and enjoy the fun of retro.

Only before some film festivals are held, people from art museums come to enlarge the photos in batches.

Therefore, Boss Lin will be happy every time he encounters this kind of order. After all, this craft may really become history along with film in a few decades.

"I'll develop it tonight, and you can choose the version tomorrow morning." If the store hadn't been open and there was no way to develop the film, Boss Lin would have wanted to start now. After seeing Chen Pingsheng's works, although there were only a few, he was completely hooked. He was greedy, and he was very curious about the level of photos that Chen Pingsheng took so much trouble to create.

He also heard from his daughter that these photos would be included in an exhibition in the city, which made him even more itchy. What was the purpose of taking photos in the end? Isn't it just to publish a photography book and hold a photography exhibition?

But after looking at more and more people downstairs, Boss Lin sighed and decided to receive customers for the time being.

Chen Pingsheng is also looking forward to his own work. Film is torture in this way. It cannot be viewed immediately after shooting, and it must be kept tightly and not exposed to light.Otherwise, it will be easy to destroy the roll. Those film tycoons often buy a small refrigerator to store the film.And if you store it properly, even expired film can still be used for shooting.

When I went downstairs, it was only 10 o'clock, but the store was already bustling with people.

Although the era of film has passed, there are still some enthusiasts who gather in film stores to communicate about their hobbies and take photos.

Most of them are young girls, but they have all kinds of things in their hands, such as CCD cameras, Polaroids, and Olympus portable film machines.

Chen Pingsheng also saw a girl in avant-garde clothing. She opened her clothes to reveal the red bra underneath, and then stuck out her tongue to reveal her tongue stud, which made her friends take crazy pictures.

I have to say that modern young people have a lot of fun.

After saying hello to Lin Zishan who was introducing the camera to customers, Chen Pingsheng left the Xijiao Studio.

Looking at the bright and clear sky, he suddenly didn't know what to do.

There is no need to take pictures for the time being, and the system tasks can be waited for two days before taking pictures. Chen Pingsheng, who has been busy in the past few days, also ushered in his own short rest time.

But before he could express his gratitude to Jiangshan, the cell phone in his pocket suddenly rang.

It was his mother who called him.For a moment, Chen Pingsheng was a little at a loss. After coming to this time and space, he had been avoiding facing his family. He didn't expect to have to talk on the phone so soon.

After mustering up the courage, Chen Pingsheng waited for five seconds before answering the call.

"Hey, Shengsheng, congratulations!" Unexpectedly, the person on the phone was not his mother, but his second aunt.

"I've been so awesome in my life!" His third aunt interjected from the side.

Immediately afterwards, the fourth aunt grabbed the phone: "Let me say a few words to Heping Sheng. Hey, Shengsheng, we have all seen it. You really didn't study in college in vain. The photos are so good!"

"Oh, you guys, stop arguing, my mother hasn't spoken yet!" the aunt said.

As expected, the eldest one spoke well. The aunts stopped talking and handed the phone to the youngest sister, Chen Pingsheng's mother.

"Hey, life, I'm at your grandma's house!"

"What's going on?" Chen Pingsheng looked confused. He had planned several tricks in his mind to hide the truth, but was disrupted by several aunts and completely forgotten about it.

"Didn't you post a few photos recently? Your number of followers has increased rapidly, so I showed them to them. As a result, they insisted on calling you to praise you."

Chen Pingsheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Don't ask, he must have drank while eating.

Grandma gave birth to a total of 5 daughters. These aunts have always been good at livening up the family atmosphere. They always put on shows during every year and festival. And because he is the only college student in the Chen and Wang family, the aunts naturally dote on him. add.

"This is just the beginning, Mom, it's not like that." Chen Pingsheng thought to himself that with just a few fans, it's really not worth boasting about.

But her mother disagreed: "A good start is half the success. I see that you deleted all the previous photos and changed your name, which means you want to start over. It's good, but I don't think your previous name is good." , you still haven’t changed, now you have figured it out?”

"I understand." Chen Pingsheng nodded honestly.

"By the way, your body is the most important thing. You should exercise more and build muscles. Men should dress to look thin and take off their clothes to look fat." Mother was still teaching her earnestly.

Chen Pingsheng squatted on the roadside and reluctantly agreed: "Yes, yes, that's right."

"What are you doing now?" After chatting for a while, my mother suddenly asked.

"I..." Chen Pingsheng looked up at the gym across the street. On the huge sign, a strong man with a bare upper body and taut muscles was facing him and smiled with big white teeth.

"I'm just going to the gym to work out."

"Okay, then I won't bother you anymore, just go!"

"Okay, take care of yourself too."

"Beep beep!" The phone hung up.

At the same time, Chen Pingsheng also knew what he should do today.

To become a tough guy, exercise!
After answering the phone, Chen Pingsheng, who seemed to have let go of some knots in his heart, suddenly laughed while walking. He felt that this was good and lively.

(End of this chapter)