Rebirth of top photographers

Chapter 179 Great Work (Colored)

After crossing the preface, Gai Tuowen finally saw the photo of "The Decisive Moment".

Jumping over the white blank page, to the right, is a rather exciting looking photo.

It was in front of an abandoned church. Among the large water stains, a man was trying to jump over the water boundary from a fallen shelf.But he seemed to have overestimated himself. He had just jumped a meter away and already fell down.

Gai Tuowen can clearly see from the photo that his feet are about to fall into the water. The body and the shadow in the water form a clever symmetrical pattern, which makes the man in the picture sweat.

"This capture is so accurate." Gai Tuowen imagined the scene captured by Chen Pingsheng. Such scenes are actually not uncommon. At least he has done what the man in the picture did.

But he didn't expect that Chen Pingsheng would use a photo to extract this matter.

A solidified Schrödinger's space is formed.

He felt that the man would definitely fall into the water and get his shoes and trousers wet, but he didn't see it. This was all in his imagination, not in reality.

"So is this the decisive moment?" Gai Tuowen muttered a few words, and then continued to look at the photo.

The next pictures are all about street scenes, with people, buildings, and vehicles.The pictures are all just like the first one, freezing the moment before a certain event happens but does not happen.

Show this extremely dramatic scene to readers and let them imagine, make up their own minds, and speculate.

"I have to say that these kind of photos are really amazing." If you just snap one or two photos, it feels normal to change the text. Everyone can do it.

However, so many pictures use the same technique at the same time and have different compositions, but they can all see the beauty of geometric figures.

Then it is not simple.

This shows that the photographer has a clear understanding of his own work that is beyond ordinary people.

He knows how to shoot, what to shoot with, and how to present it.

Gai Tuowen couldn't help but look at Chen Pingsheng who was turning pages. At this moment, he suddenly felt that the photography world was so lucky, and the domestic photography world was so lucky.It is possible for such a character to appear and fully demonstrate his talents.

The joke he just made made him suddenly feel that nothing was impossible.

The mature ideological theory and practice of this work is enough to teach all photographers a lesson called "How to Photograph Decisive Moments".

There are many photos in this work, and it is naturally impossible for him to read them all. He can only pick out some that he finds interesting and focus on them.

Among them, one of them left a deep impression on him.

It was a field of tombstones, neatly built on the mountainside. At first glance, there was nothing noteworthy about them.

But when he looked carefully, he found two people lying on the ground on the right side of the tombstone.

One of them was lying on his back, his hair disheveled, and seemed to be crying in pain.

And another girl with long hair hugged him and comforted the man, just like a mother comforting her child when she was a child.

The reason Gai Tuowen likes this photo is because he feels that it contains thoughts about death.

And the shooting style is very calm, and there is no deliberate exaggeration at all.

Even the positions of the two people are not in the center of the picture. If you want to sensationalize, then it is obvious that zooming in on the picture can easily amplify the emotions conveyed by the photo.

But Chen Pingsheng did not choose to do this. Gai Tuowen felt that he was serving the entire work.

This is what surprised him the most, because not everyone can know what is light and what is heavy when creating.Just like a novel, it happens from time to time that the theme goes off-topic as you write.

But Chen Pingsheng's three works are all too mature.

Whether it is the emotional expression of "The Crow", the real and false discussion of "The Museum of Perspective", or the theoretical proof of "The Decisive Moment".

These are enough to illustrate his control and insight into his works.

It seems that no matter how he arranges the work, it adds luster to the work itself.

So much so that there is no need to change the text, because this work is so mature and systematic.

So he went on to look at other photos.

In another photo, a huge black pillar stands in the middle, cutting off the space on both sides of the picture and making the composition appear symmetrical.

Gai Tuowen first looked to the left. There was a father sitting on the steps, next to the stroller in which his child was riding.

The father looked at his mobile phone and held the stroller in his hand, as if waiting for the child's mother to appear.

On the right, also sitting on the steps are two young people, hugging each other and enjoying their love time.

"It's like a contrast between the past and the future." Gai Tuowen suddenly remembered the first set of photos taken by Chen Pingsheng in the film industry, the one of a young woman who saw her old self through the glass.

The same theme, only this time it has a more spatial feel. The symmetrical pictures make people seem to be in the same time and space at different times.

This way of composition is really thought-provoking.

And photos with this kind of composition are everywhere in this album. Gai Tuofen has realized the difficulty of shooting this album.

"In your life, how long have you been taking these photos?" Gai Tuowen asked curiously.

Chen Pingsheng calculated: "A few months."

"How many months?" Gai Tuowen suddenly thought of the previous awards ceremony. There was no doubt that Chen Pingsheng had already started filming this work before that.He shook his head in disbelief, feeling that genius could no longer be described as Chen Pingsheng.

Even a layman like him knows what the emergence of this mature theory means to the current photography industry, but Chen Pingsheng, a young man in his 20s, wrote it so easily and took photos of it. Case sample.

Yes, I think this photo album should be more accurately described as a textbook, a textbook that tells everyone how to express photography.

He can't wait to see this album published.

"In my life, I will discuss the publishing matter as soon as possible. Your photo album must be handed over to me for publication!" Gai Tuowen's tone was pleading.

As an editor, one of the greatest achievements is to see a book published in your hand become a bestseller, or to become the editor-in-chief of a classic book.

Gai Tuowen is keenly aware of the infinite potential of "The Decisive Moment". He believes that in the future, everyone in the photography community will have a photo album.

Because some of the words in it are no less than an industry bible.

And those composition methods will also become the objects of imitation that people are scrambling to imitate.

With this idea in mind, Gai Tuowen came to Chen Pingsheng's computer and looked at the photos as he flipped through them.

No longer through a projection, but through a computer screen.

Because of the color of this album, the projection cannot fully show it, and even the screen is somewhat lacking. Only when it is actually washed out can you get a glimpse of the beauty.

For more than half an hour, the two of them were in front of the screen, flipping through the pages.

The layout of this photo album is not as elaborate as "The Crow", nor is it as coherent and unified as "The Museum of Perspective".The photos are mainly divided into several scenes.

There are different backgrounds such as street scenes, buildings, suburbs, stations, etc.

The photos inside are also diverse and include everyone from elite-dressed people to ordinary people.But Gai Tuowen felt that he had understood the core meaning of this work.

As mentioned in the preface, this work actually teaches photographers how to use their eyes to find those geometric figures in life and photograph them at the right time to become a "decisive moment."

Even after reading the reprinted text, I was a little eager to try it, and I felt like I had found the secret to photography.

When this idea appeared in his mind, Gai Tuowen was stunned and muttered to himself: "Probably not."

"What's wrong?" Chen Pingsheng asked in confusion.

Gaituowen turned his head and said with a complicated expression: "I suddenly thought of a question."

"what?"

"If an ordinary person reads this work, will he become interested in photography?"

When Gai Tuowen said this sentence, he actually already had the answer in his heart.

Yes, absolutely.

Because for those who are interested in photography, the most irresistible thing is this seemingly clear and simple "photography trick" with extremely low threshold.

This is the weakness of most people, a human weakness that cannot be changed.

Chen Pingsheng's book "The Decisive Moment" is like a tutorial on art photography. He clarifies the meaning and significance of the word through the preface.

He also taught everyone the composition method through a large number of photos.

Once readers read the work, they will naturally want to apply what they have learned, and then they will find that such shooting is indeed easy to produce.

It is easy to take photos that are recognized by people around you and even the general public.

And this will inevitably cause a change in the trend of photography.

Because this is like the basic skills in martial arts. You don't have to use them, but you have to learn them. Otherwise, when you really use them, you will find that your skills are a little less than others.

When Gai Tuowen realized this, he looked at Chen Pingsheng with somewhat complicated eyes.

He wondered whether the young man knew the value of his work.

In ancient times, this would have been a major event in establishing a sect and writing a book!
But now, this work was placed in front of him in such an understatement.

Then why would you miss it?
At this moment, Chen Pingsheng turned to the last card.What was taken in the photo was the gap between the two buildings, which was a deep and long alley.In the lower part of the center of the picture, that is, on the steps by the roadside, there is a young man sitting.

He was wearing a sweater, his legs were spread apart, and he was holding his knees with his hands. He seemed to be in a very lost state.

Opposite him, a cat was sitting on the ground, looking up at him.

One person and one cat just stared at each other.

Gai Tuowen was hit in the heart by the loneliness that overflowed from this photo. It was a feeling of loneliness that he had nothing to say with his fellow men, and could only be described as being with others.

Just like the old man at the end of "The Crow".

Once again, Chen Pingsheng chose to use such a lonely photo to summarize the album. Gai Tuowen suddenly felt that this might be a certain creative concept that Chen Pingsheng has always adhered to.

Art is inherently lonely.

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