Rebirth of top photographers

Chapter 273 Return to Childhood (Colorful)
Chen Pingsheng and Feiming signed the contract five days later.

As a result, he joined the Feiming board of directors by investing in shares based on his technology, handed over all the drawings and Hasselblad models to the engineering department, and became one of the shareholders.

Although the proportion of shares is not large, in addition to shares, he also has sales shares.If Hasselblad can be successfully launched and sold well, his income will far exceed everything he has ever obtained, and he will continue to make money.

But this is not important to Chen Pingsheng. What he values ​​​​more is this new camera.

Regarding the naming of this camera, Chen Pingsheng has also taken the initiative. Hasselblad X1 will be the new name of the camera.

The moment he walked out of Feiming Company, he began to look forward to what the new camera would look like in the future.

He never thought that one day his dream would be realized in this way, which also made him feel amazing.

Is this an echo of obsession?

"Where are we going next?" Huang Liao rushed over from China yesterday and spent half a day getting jet-lagged.

"We are going to the mountainous area near Lu Beihong." After Chen Pingsheng answered, he looked into the distance of the city...
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"Old Bru, is this your former home?" A day later, Chen Pingsheng and several others stood in front of a two-story villa in Hongshan District, Lubei, somewhat confused.

This is different from the house that Old Blue said, it is far more luxurious than that.

Old Blue, wearing a round hat, nodded: "Yes, after I made money, I renovated it specially. Because my parents live here."

"I see."

There was a truck behind these people, which was used to transport the dummy friends. In order to shoot the photo album in their minds, Chen Pingsheng and Lao Bulu carefully selected dozens of dummies to come back with them.

After the masters moved the dummies into the house, Chen Pingsheng and Huang Liao started cleaning again.

After all, no one has lived here for a long time, and it's all covered in dust and cobwebs.

Chen Pingsheng is not afraid of anything else, but he is most afraid of spiders, so he is extremely serious when cleaning, especially in the room, leaving no dead space.

This caused him to feel like he was falling apart after the room was cleaned, and he was very tired.

Housework is by no means an easy task, especially when you don’t have any handy tools.

Old Blue was also busy all afternoon, but what he mainly did was to place the dummy friends and cook.

After Huang Liao finished cleaning up the yard, she smelled a very fragrant smell as soon as she entered the house.

"What did you do?" Her stomach was empty and she was very hungry.

"Spaghetti with meat sauce, and mashed potatoes." Chen Pingsheng put the plate on the table. I have to say that Old Blue's craftsmanship is very good.

The flavor of this meat sauce is attractive enough.

"Bang." Old Blue put down his plate. He was still wearing a pink apron. If he looked at it from the back, he would have thought he was an old woman.

"Eat it, eat it quickly." He scooped a spoonful of mashed potatoes onto the pasta, stirred it evenly, and put it in his mouth.

Instantly a delicious sigh came out of his mouth.

Chen Pingsheng and Huang Liao were so greedy that they also imitated his method and put mashed potatoes on the pasta.

Sure enough, after adding mashed potatoes, the pasta has a more layered texture, but it is easy to get dry mouth after a few bites.

While eating, Chen Pingsheng asked, "Old Bulu, where is your family?" He didn't know what the situation of Old Bulu's family was yet.

"Them?" Old Blue stopped his fork and said slowly: "I have a son and a daughter. They are both in the United States and they come back to see me occasionally."

"Really?" Chen Pingsheng nodded.

"They studied finance and film. They said there was no development in France, so they took the exam there, although I don't know what's so good about the United States."

"But it's their choice."

Old Blue muttered and continued eating noodles.

Chen Pingsheng saw that he looked quite open-minded, so he did not comfort him. Presumably the old man had already thought about many things clearly.

After eating, several people went to the place where the dummies were stacked. The preparations for this shooting were the most complicated that Chen had ever experienced.

Because the different identities and movements of the dummies need to be photographed, each dummy needs to be dressed up and placed.

Lao Bulu specially brought a lot of clothes for Chen Pingsheng to choose from.

The three people discussed it, and Chen Pingsheng drew the shots that needed to be taken every day on paper and marked what was needed.Huang Liao was responsible for placing the dummies and lights, while Old Blue went to the town to help them find some things to bring back.

Even though Old Blue is already over 70 years old, he is still very energetic and in good physical condition.

After the division of labor was completed, Chen Pingsheng fell into thinking all night.

I kept drawing the shots I wanted based on Old Blue's memories. Even after I went to bed, I was thinking about how to realize some shots in my dreams.

By the next day, everyone was still preparing.

Huang Liao looked at Chen Pingsheng's painting, moved all the props and dummies needed in the previous two days up the hillside, and covered them with rainproof cloth in order to complete the transition work faster.

Although Chen Pingsheng did not give specific instructions, she knew how to save time for filming.

This is what Chen Pingsheng likes most about her. She has a strong subjective initiative and never complains about how much she does. On the contrary, she often feels that she has nothing to do.

And he won't wait for him to speak, but will arrange what needs to be done by himself.

This is the most important characteristic of an assistant. Masters in any industry will not like someone who only knows how to obey and do things without thinking about how to do it well in advance.

After Chen Pingsheng finished drawing the scenes for a few days, he went to the town with Lao Bulu and found his friends from his hometown.

Because this album will not only have dummies, it is necessary to find some teenage children to serve as models for the filming.

Chen Pingsheng asked Old Blue to choose the person who looked most like him when he was young. He finally chose a little boy with light blond hair named Yoris.Although he is only eight years old, he already looks a little precocious.

This is the same as in China. With the increase in nutritional intake, children's height and appearance are growing faster than when they were children.

He still remembered that in just one year, his niece's size had grown from his waist to his chest.

I almost didn't recognize her when we met again.

After deciding on the candidate and the shooting time, Chen Pingsheng also paid a small deposit to the child's parents.

By the time they returned to the villa on the hillside, it was already dusk.

"Things are ready." After seeing Chen Pingsheng sitting in the yard, Huang Liao came over and sat next to him.

She was wearing slippers, and there was no nail polish on her white toes. Chen Pingsheng looked up at her and found that her short, ear-length hair had grown longer.

"Then we can start shooting tomorrow." Chen Pingsheng smiled, feeling that every shooting is an unknown journey. You don't know what you will see, when you will stay, and what you will gain in the end.

"I feel like since I've been shooting with you, I've been to many places, and every day is new." Huang Liao felt a little emotional, and her decision was undoubtedly the right one.

In just half a year, I have seen various shooting situations, various photography masters, and celebrities in other fields.

This is undoubtedly a very significant benefit to her vision.It also made her appear more comfortable in shooting.Especially after learning Chen Pingsheng's shooting techniques, Huang Liao no longer thinks about how she wants to shoot, but more about what she wants to shoot.

So during this time, in addition to being busy with Chen Pingsheng's affairs, she was also busy with her own photo album. Everywhere she went, every house she went to, she would take out her camera to look for some shooting angles.

"Crack."

For example, now, she showed the photos she had taken to Chen Pingsheng.

Chen Pingsheng pondered for a moment and said: "I think there are not enough elements. Although there are walls, carts and pillars, the presence of the wall is too heavy, but its color cannot control the overall situation."

There are two ways to take pictures when it comes to color.

One is to make one color the most critical and eye-catching point. The advantage of this is that even if other colors are messy, it will not affect the look and feel.

The second is to make all colors evenly distributed and occupy the same proportion. This kind of shooting method can easily cause visual fatigue to the viewer, so it also tests the photographer's skill and color adjustment level.

Huang Liao adopts the second method. She does not require the audience to focus on a certain detail. What she wants to achieve is that everyone can see it and talk about details everywhere.

It's hard and abstract.

Ordinary people cannot understand this kind of shooting method. Even if a famous person's photo is placed in front of him, he can't see any difference between it and something taken casually.

But this is art. Popular art is art, and niche art is art. Art that focuses on the concept of photography is still art.

Although the general public always says that art is something that cannot be understood, it is the artist's unfounded moaning.

But anything with a threshold is like this in the mind without threshold. Art focuses on the expression of personal style.

As long as you stick to your own style and complete the work seriously, it is art.

But not all art can be recognized and understood by artists and the public.

Of course, those things that are deliberately vulgar and eye-catching need to be resisted, but for conceptual art, its own obscurity is actually its advantage.

This is also a kind of screening, and it is not just the audience who is picking apart the artwork.

Artists are also picking their audience.

Huang Liao's works are destined to be high-pitched and mediocre, but she herself enjoys them.

After the two of them finished communicating about some photography methods, they each returned to the house, slept peacefully, and prepared for the official shooting the next day.
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Early in the morning, Lao Bulu was helped to the hillside by Chen Pingsheng and Huang Liao, where they were about to take the first photo.

It is also the most critical cover.

In front of a forest, a white bed was placed on the ground, with white sheets and quilts on it.Around the bed, various dummy friends are placed.

Some of them were sitting, some were standing, some were holding flowers in their hands, and some were looking into the distance.

But without exception, the expressions on their faces were smiling and kind.

"Should I just sit on it?" Old Blue looked at his dummy friends with some joy, feeling that his childhood memories seemed to be being recalled.

"Of course." Chen Pingsheng asked the old man to sit on the bed. He was still wearing a white pajamas that looked like a hospital gown.

Old Blue struggled to put the quilt on his legs. The dummy beside him made him feel very safe.

"Yes, Old Blue, you support your chin with both hands, yes." Chen Pingsheng waited for him to be ready and began to adjust his posture.

It didn't take long for Huang Liao to see that Lao Bulu had completed the request and was holding his face with both hands, looking straight at the camera calmly.

The scene looked a lot like the visits of friends, some black, some white, some boys, some girls, to old Blue when he was ill.

The clothes on their bodies are also different.

This photo was destined to be taken only here because their expressions are an indispensable element.

Chen Pingsheng lowered his body and looked at Lao Bulu's pale hair hanging on his forehead through the camera. Although he was old, he was surprisingly full of innocence at this time.

"Crack!"

He snapped the photo and decided to use it as the cover of Blue's Long Vacation.

After taking one photo, they helped Old Blue out of bed and started taking the second photo non-stop.

The second picture is at the beach, with several dummies in different costumes placed on the beach.

The head of the dummy on the far left is covered with a layer of white gauze, like a naughty child playing with his mother's veil.

In the middle, there is an older female dummy and a child dummy placed together, like a mother and child.

On the far right stands a dummy dressed in pink playing with branches.

Coupled with the endless sea and blue behind them, this contrasts sharply with the color of the beach at the bottom of the picture.

Although their dummies are of different ages, their skin colors are extremely uniform, all with brown skin.Visually, everyone who watches this is unmistakably a family.

"Click!" Chen Pingsheng took this photo. Huang Liao came over, looked at it and said, "It feels so dreamy."

Yes, that's what this series is trying to achieve.

If it were real people, it would just be a simple family record.

But once a dummy is used, the audience can't help but put themselves into it.

And then have memories of his childhood.

What Chen Pingsheng needs is this kind of feeling. Unlike "The Asada Family", this will be a work that can be imagined by everyone.

It was also thanks to the Asada family’s photography that Chen Pingsheng came up with this technique.

“Let’s move on to the third photo.”

After the two people packed up their things at the beach, they headed to the third filming location.

There was a pile of green weeds, with five dummies standing on the ground. The only difference was that two of the boy dummies were holding a yellow handmade wooden airplane in their hands.

It's like their father made it for them.

The five dummy children lined up at a time, seeming to want the plane to take off in the direction of the wind.

For this reason, Chen Pingsheng deliberately took low-angle shots to increase the proportion of the sky, making the whole picture look empty and beautiful.

The airplane symbolizes flight and fits perfectly with the blue sky.

"Crack!"

Another photo shoot has been completed, and the fun part of this album has just begun.

(End of this chapter)