Rebirth of top photographers

Chapter 227 Multiple Exposure Night Scene (Colored)

Chen Pingsheng hesitated all night, and finally struggled with whether it was Fang Ze or Huang Liao.

But before he could continue thinking, Gai Tuowen contacted him first.

"Pingsheng, "Beiliu Huohuo" is about to be published." He called to inform Chen Pingsheng of this matter.

"So fast?" Chen Pingsheng has been busy with other things these days and has not noticed the publication.

"Of course, but the edition number will be tightened in the future, and the publication of your Vivian may have to be postponed." Gaiwen said with regret.

"That's okay. Several books have been published this year." Even Chen Pingsheng himself felt it was a bit excessive.

It takes others several years to publish a photo album, and they have to find suitable photos from tens of thousands of negatives to organize, type, print and publish.And he just had to shoot what he had in mind.

The publishing house may think this is a sign of his youthful creativity. Only Chen Pingsheng himself knows that he has more themes in his mind and he will probably continue to shoot like this for many years to come.

After talking about publishing, Gaituowen talked about visiting exhibitions.

"A foreign artist is coming to the capital to hold a traveling art exhibition in the next two days. Are you interested in taking a look?"

"What exhibition?" Naturally, a photographer's life is inseparable from supplementary inspiration, and visiting exhibitions is a good choice.

"A very interesting exhibition called 'Art is in the Present'." Gai Tuowen introduced him: "It's Abramovich's exhibition. Do you know her?"

"I don't know much about it." When Chen Pingsheng heard this name, he knew that there was no corresponding figure in the current photography world.

Sure enough, the post confirmed his idea: "She is a performance artist, very powerful. This exhibition has been held in other regions for 9 weeks."

"What is it specifically?" Chen Pingsheng was a little curious.

"To put it simply, she is sitting on a chair and looking at other people." Gai Tuowen paused and continued: "Seven hours a day."

"What?" Chen Pingsheng was so surprised that his native dialect came out.

"Sitting on a chair for seven hours a day, what about in between? Eating and drinking?" he asked.

"No food, no water." There was a smile in Gaituowen's tone, as if he heard Chen Pingsheng's doubts and remembered that he had asked similar questions before.

"This is really difficult." Chen Pingsheng instantly developed respect for this performance artist, and then came up with the idea of ​​going to the exhibition.

"How is it?" As soon as Gai Tuowen finished speaking, he heard a voice of agreement from the other side of the phone.

"Go, how can you miss this kind of exhibition?" Chen Pingsheng expressed his thoughts with a smile.

"Okay, then I will accompany you when you come tomorrow. I also want to see how this Abramovich does it."

After confirming the date with Gai Tuowen, Chen Pingsheng temporarily put aside his worries about the candidate.

He first bought a plane ticket, then went out with his camera to shoot some night scenes.

Speaking of which, Chen Pingsheng has never taken too many photos of night scenes, because the lighting problem is difficult to control. Those flashing signboards and the very dazzling lights deliberately adjusted by the merchants will bring a lot of inexplicable difficulties to the shooting.

Moreover, in the night scene, people who come out to play are more willing to gather in the night market instead of walking on the paths.

Therefore, although night scenes are easy to produce, they also require more patience.

But today, he didn’t want to take pictures of works with humanistic feelings, nor did he want to take pictures of people’s expressions and movements when night came.

He wanted to take a picture of something simple, like a neon sign above his head.

It is made up of two triangular signs put together, with a row of clear blue fonts and orange decorations in the middle.It looks like the triangles used in math classes when he was a child. Chen Pingsheng still remembers the transparent bags that contained them, because the transparent buttons on them that controlled the closure could easily fall off.And Chen Pingsheng would try to put it back every time he dropped it, so he was deeply impressed by it.

He raised the camera, controlled the surrounding light as much as possible around the sign, and adjusted the lens to avoid other light sources, and then photographed the sign and the surrounding night at the same time.

The next sign he discovered was composed of three rows of letters, standing isolated above a bar, with each row being a different color.

But Chen Pingsheng did not take pictures of them directly, but chose to photograph their virtual shadows.

This requires the cooperation of slow shutter speed and hand movements. Chen Pingsheng held his breath and concentrated, letting his body enter a stable state, and then adjusted the shutter parameters.

Then he aimed at the sign and pressed the shutter while moving his hands slightly upward.

"Click!" When the action was completed, the camera also made a crisp sound.

Chen Pingsheng opened the replay and looked at it, and felt that there was nothing wrong with it.

Continue walking towards the commercial street.

There are many signs here, they are complicated, and they are irregular and full of chaos.

Faced with this kind of scene, it is obvious that even if you choose a suitable angle, you will not be able to shoot it.But the photographer has another magic weapon up his sleeve.

That's double exposure.

Of course, it can also be called multiple exposures.

This function is usually configured on cameras, and you just need to select it from the menu. Even film cameras have related buttons or methods to shoot multiple exposures.

Chen Pingsheng doesn't often use this shooting method, but that doesn't mean he doesn't know how.

He set the number of multiple exposures at eight, then pointed at a donut sign and pressed the shutter.

Multiple exposures are repeated exposures on the same film, which means that multiple photos you take will be reflected in one photo. Therefore, when most people use it, the composition will appear messy due to poor lighting control.

But if used well, this is also a very brilliant feature.

Can take very eye-catching photos.

Chen Pingsheng's plan is to take pictures of some signboards and combine them to form a unique composition.

"Crack!"

"Crack!"

He shuttled among the crowd, estimating the corresponding position of each sign in the photo, and thinking about how to control the surrounding light to a suitable level.

It wasn't until half an hour later that he took the photo.

Then he admired it. In the photo, there were layers of different signs stacked on top of each other, although they were of different colors and shapes.But under his control, these signs seemed to be combined into a building, full of the beauty of order, and even the independent donut logo in the upper left corner was like a full moon, dotting the picture.

"Not bad." Chen Pingsheng nodded with satisfaction, then transferred it to his mobile phone, adjusted the color slightly, and then posted it to Yingzhuan.

On this street, there was no picture he wanted to take at this time.

"It's time to go back." Chen Pingsheng looked at the time. He had to catch an early flight tomorrow to visit that unique art exhibition.

(End of this chapter)