Rebirth of top photographers

Chapter 208 "The Decisive Moment" in the eyes of critics!
"Beep...beep..."

After chatting with Gai Tuowen about the publication of "Beiliu Huohuo", Chen Pingsheng put down the phone and watched the variety show on the screen.

During this time, the company has been registered, and the Photography Exploration Studio has been officially established, although he is the only one for the time being.

Chen Pingsheng is also considering whether to find an assistant or other photographers to keep the studio running.

Later, I felt that it was really troublesome. He was not a person who liked business and was really not too concerned about this kind of thing.

So it would be more convenient to go alone.

"Seya, what are your views on love?"

You can see on the screen that Wei Seya gave some ambiguous popular answers when asked by the host.

"I think when two people are together, they must first have similar interests, and then it will be better for them to play together..."

Chen Pingsheng is quite bored now, so he turns on the TV and takes a look.

After all, the photos have been color corrected, and the interview with Film Magazine has been arranged, so just follow the schedule.

I take photos and exercise every day when I'm bored. This kind of life is stable and slow-paced. I don't need to force myself to get up early and go to bed early every day.

But it just lacks some waves.

Chen Pingsheng looked at his phone and found that it was already June without even realizing it, and this year was already halfway through. He felt that time was flying by, as if he was about to run away from him with some determination.

The next most important thing is the release of "The Decisive Moment".

Domestically, it was still Huaxia Literature Publishing House, while abroad it was Abner Publishing. He had already tasted the benefits and wished that Chen Pingsheng would authorize all his works to him.

Chen Pingsheng also liked his attitude and sincerity, so the two parties had agreed to publish "Beiliu Huohuo" and "In Memory of Vivian".

He didn't know what kind of waves this photo album would cause in the photography circle, but with his current reputation, he couldn't be silent.

So just wait...

While he was waiting silently, Abner found several masters in the photography industry and handed a photo album into their hands.

"Mr. Chairman." Abner was wearing a suit and looked gentlemanly.

But when he compared it with the old man opposite who was wearing a vest and shirt and holding a cigar, he was even worse.

Lalis Erickson, Chairman of Gesay, this old man always has exquisite hair, and the grooves on his face are full of wisdom belonging to his age. He held up the brand-new photo album in front of him and felt the weight in his hands. He smiled and said, "This is really a heavy work."

"Yes, Mr. Chairman." Abner also laughed: "I think Chen's work this time is even more ambitious than before."

"Incomparable ambition?" Erikson looked at him in surprise: "Is there any more shocking theme than "The Crow"?"

"It's not the theme, Mr. Chairman, you'll know after reading it." Abner said with a mysterious expression.
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"Abner, oh, don't show off, tell me!" In the somewhat chaotic living room, a middle-aged man with rosacea wearing a vest and slippers opened his eyes wide and looked impatient.

"Fosken, don't be so impatient!" Abner said with a smile, despite the slovenly appearance of this middle-aged man.

He is a well-known critic in the American photography circle. Whether it is art, sculpture, literature, or movies, he can comment on it. The most important thing is that his comments often have the effect of driving sales, so he is also known as Good luck Ken.

Abner has been friends with Good Luck Ken for four or five years, so this time on the belt cover of "The Decisive Moment", he hoped that Good Luck Ken would leave some comments.

"How can I not be impatient? I can't wait to see this work." Fosken touched his nose. From the album, he could smell the fragrance of ink and paper.No matter how you smell it, it's addictive.

"Then I won't disturb you, but I will come on time the day after tomorrow. Don't forget your evaluation."
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"Don't worry, don't worry, I will definitely give you an evaluation on time." A woman wearing glasses with an impatient expression stood at the door, talking to Abner.

"Elsa, don't deal with me! I will push you every hour!" Abner pushed the door and refused to let it close.

This woman named Aisha is an artist, an Internet celebrity, and a critic.

Her works have been exhibited many times and are popular all over the world. Her previous autobiography was published by Abner.

But this woman has one biggest shortcoming, and that is procrastination.

Everything promised will be forgotten until it is remembered again. For this reason, many tasks have been delayed for a long time.

Especially the autobiography. It was obviously not difficult to write, but it took me three years to finish it.

Abner even paved the floor of her house for a while, just to urge her to complete her work.

So he had to remind Aisha again and again not to let this woman run wild.

"Okay, okay, ah..." Elsa yawned, pushed Abner out of the door, then leaned against the door and said, "I'll take a look."

After Abner heard the sound, he sighed and turned to leave.

Aisha in the room walked to the sofa, immediately lay down on it, closed her eyes and said to herself: "I'll watch it when I wake up."

"Huh...huh..." This sleep lasted for three hours. When Aisha got up from the sofa sleepily, she found that it was already noon.

"Damn, I overslept again." Aisha came to the kitchen barefoot, reached under the hem of her clothes, scratched the itch on her chest, then picked up a small pot and cooked herself a bag of macaroni.

While cooking, Aisha yawned again. Aisha knew that she slept too late last night.

"My head hurts, damn it."

Looking at the macaroni floating in the pot, Aisha knew it would take a while, so she walked back to the sofa.

Just as he was about to sit down, he suddenly saw the photo album on the coffee table.

"Abner sent it," she muttered, then picked it up and placed it in her lap.

"Why is it so heavy?" Aisha put her legs on the coffee table and swept away the things on it with her feet.

Then I opened the album and saw the preface.

"What a good preface." Mr. Erikson took off his glasses. He was sitting in the attic of his home. There was a circular window above his head, and the sunlight fell from above, forming a beam of light.

There were fine particles of dust floating in the air. He sat next to the large wooden table and read "The Decisive Moment" by Chen Pingsheng.

"The final decision of the unity of time, space, and aesthetics. This sentence is really exquisite." Mr. Erikson was still thinking about the words in the preface. He could vaguely sense the significance of this work. Ambition.

This is what Abner calls "ambition."

"Chen, do you want to define a photography category, or do you want to add a new possibility to the photography world?" Mr. Ericson opened the next page with a smile.

Then in an instant, I suddenly understood the decisive moment in Chen Pingsheng's article.

Because he saw the photos and those frozen moments.

"This picture is really interesting." Ericson flipped through the photo album one after another, and finally stopped in front of a photo of children playing.

The photographer shot a picture of a group of children running around and playing through a tattered wall. Coincidentally, the positions of these children seemed to follow some kind of self-consistent and scientific composition logic, making the whole photo look very orderly. feel.

But Mr. Ericson looked at it for a while, and it seemed that it didn’t match the composition in his impression.

So he stared at the photo and pondered for a while, and suddenly got some inspiration from the gap in the wall.

"Is this...a golden spiral?"

Mr. Ericson was surprised. He drew a spiral shape with his finger along the edge of the photo. Sure enough, the center point was on the child in the center of the picture.

It is indeed a golden spiral composition.

Mr. Ericson couldn't help but said: "It's beyond my imagination, amazing insight and capturing power, it's simply a masterpiece!"

Based on the amazing composition expressed in this photo and the definition of photography in the preface, Mr. Ericson has already concluded that this work will definitely have a place in the candidates for this annual photo album.

Looking further back, Mr. Erikson has already understood Chen Pingsheng’s photography concept of the so-called “decisive moment”.

"This is setting a basic principle for photography!" His mood at this time did not hesitate to see Newton's first law of mechanics.

I couldn't help but sit up straight and look at this work seriously. I thought it was just a photo album showing a certain shooting theme, but I didn't expect it to be a photo album about the essence of photography.

"Photographers will feel great joy when they see this work, because..." Fosken was walking in his yard, holding a tablet, as if he was thinking about how to define this work.

He has read the entire photo album, although there are many photos, and each photo is a freeze-frame of a key moment.But in fact, there is not much room for interpretation. In other words, the idea of ​​the entire photo album is not to allow everyone to analyze the content expressed by the photos.

The previous preface and the overly uniform shooting method are actually only for one thing, and that is to speak out the concept of the decisive moment clearly so that everyone can understand it.

Fosken's biggest feeling after reading it was not how beautiful the photos were, or the unique charm they felt.

Rather, it was as if he had read an instruction manual, and he felt as if he had learned the secrets of photography. He suddenly felt motivated to pick up a camera again.

"Yes, that's it." Fosken picked up the tablet again and wrote: "Photographers will have a great sense of joy, because this will bring guiding suggestions to their shooting. When someone doesn't know how to shoot, When the time comes, you only need to recite these five words silently."

"The decisive moment." Elsa put down the photo album, and then heard the sound of the pot boiling.

"My macaroni!" She ran over quickly, and then found that the little water had almost dried up, and circles of dark traces were left in the pot, and part of the macaroni was already dry and sticky. The bottom of the pot.

"Damn it!" Aisha turned off the fire, but instead of cleaning up immediately, she returned to the house and took out her camera.

"Isn't this also a good moment?" Elsa pressed the shutter, recorded the scene, and then whistled.

"This photo album is really useful for beginners in photography."

(End of this chapter)