Rebirth of top photographers

Chapter 3 First Mission Rating

In one afternoon, Chen Pingsheng took 36 photos, which is one roll, in the bustling commercial street.

Except for the first one, the rest of the photos either show the contrast between buildings and pedestrians, or scenes with great contrast between light and dark, or people wearing interesting clothes and behaving interestingly.

For example, there was an old man in a green suit. When Chen Pingsheng photographed him, he was not surprised at all. Instead, he smiled and made a smoking gesture with his bare hands.

This is also the reason why Chen Pingsheng likes to sweep the streets. He always encounters interesting souls wherever and whenever he knows.

It is the photographer's duty to take concrete photos of these interesting souls.

After the filming, Chen Pingsheng returned to the community and the security guard borrowed a community tricycle.He will then rush to the western suburbs studio to develop the film and sell his second-hand equipment.

Although the name is Xijiao Studio, it is actually just the name of the store and has nothing to do with film production.

Along the way, Chen Pingsheng pedaled the tricycle so fast that sparks flew out of his eyes, and it didn't take long to arrive at the Western Suburbs Studio.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw an unexpected scene.

I saw a few workers cleaning up a collapsed wall, and a girl in a green skirt stood next to them.

Hearing the sound of the door opening, the girl turned around. Chen Pingsheng recognized her.

Her name is Lin Zishan, and she is the daughter of Boss Lin of this film store.But he had only met her a few times before, and her father said she was a photography student at a well-known university in the next province.

"Hello, what is this?" Chen Pingsheng looked at the collapsed passage, wondering if he could still achieve his goal today.

"Are you here to develop the film?" Lin Zishan turned around and asked.

When she turned around, the earrings on her ears jingled, and the braid on her head looked very gentle.

"Yes, where is Boss Lin?"

"My dad was hit and hospitalized." Lin Zishan sighed.

"Are you okay?" Chen Pingsheng and Boss Lin were also acquaintances, and he couldn't help but asked with concern.

"It should be nothing serious. I still need to see a doctor for a check-up." Lin Zishan forced a smile and looked at the pile of equipment held by Chen Pingsheng: "Are you going to sell second-hand equipment?"

"Yes, can you?"

"Okay, let's go this way." After Lin Zishan finished speaking, he led Chen Pingsheng the way.

Chen Pingsheng breathed a sigh of relief and followed closely.

Xijiao Studio is a roadside store with three areas on the first floor, the photo area, the camera area and the equipment area.The second floor is where film is developed and the rest area is.

No one else was in the store today as the walls collapsed.The usually bustling film wall and photo area seemed particularly quiet.

"What do you want to sell?" Standing in the second-hand equipment area, Lin Zishan skillfully rolled up his sleeves.

"These are all sold, and then we need to rush to develop a roll of film." Chen Pingsheng placed the heavy equipment on the ground one by one, allowing Lin Zishan to inspect it.

Lin Zishan knelt down with him and tucked her broken hair behind her ears. A gentle scent of jasmine mixed with the smell of ebony entered Chen Pingsheng's nose.

"Are you going to sell it to others or recycle it directly in the store?" Lin Zishan found that these devices were not used very often. They did not look like the usage of professional photographers, but more like the posture of a novice photographer quitting the game.

"Just recycle it." Chen Pingsheng doesn't care much about the difference. Time is everything now.

"Well, I checked that the equipment is quite new, but it's not a new model, and the selling price may not be ideal." Lin Zishan saw clearly and didn't hide anything, so he said it directly.

"It's okay." Chen Pingsheng looked at the film cameras in the glass counter and said, "I was tricked before, so I didn't use them for long after I bought them."

"Okay, let me calculate how much it will cost." Lin Zishan took out his mobile phone and calculated the prices one by one.

"According to the market price, the total is 6500."

Chen Pingsheng knew that the price was already very fair, so he did not refute, but said: "Bring me two more rolls of 120 turrets for 160, and two rolls of 135 turrets for 400."

120 and 135 correspond to the film sizes of medium format and full frame, and the turret is a homonym for the film PORTRA.As for 400 and 160, they are the film sensitivity ISO.

Film is not like a digital camera. The film itself is a photosensitive element. Therefore, film cameras have nothing to do with image quality, but only with practicality.Lens and film are the key elements that affect image quality.

The turret film that Chen Pingsheng mentioned is very expensive, with a roll of medium format costing 115 yuan, not counting the processing fee.

This is also the reason why many people say they can’t afford to play with film.But for Chen Pingsheng, he felt that it was very uneconomical to spend [-] to [-] yuan at a time to buy a full-frame camera. Moreover, medium-format digital cameras were even more ridiculously expensive. [-] to [-] yuan was very normal.

In comparison, film machines are very affordable.

Not to mention the texture of film, which is also difficult to imitate digitally.

Pay in one hand and deliver in one hand.

After Lin Zishan transferred the money to Chen Pingsheng, he picked up the film he handed over and said, "Can you do it tomorrow afternoon?"

She learned how to develop film from her father when she was a child. After college, she often shot and developed films, so she was very proficient in the business.It happened that Chen Pingsheng had also heard Boss Lin say this, so he didn't have any worries. "Okay, you don't need to correct the color after scanning. Just send me the original format file. It's faster." Chen Pingsheng was eager to see the photos he took.

Shooting film is like opening a blind box. You know what might be inside, but you don’t know exactly what is inside. This feeling is the most itchy.

Lin Zishan was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said nothing.

Chen Pingsheng smiled and waved goodbye to her.

Lin Zishan looked at his back and then at the film in his hand. There were three steps in developing film: developing, scanning, and color correction.They use the industry's top scanning equipment, and the scanned film files are in a format unique to the equipment. They can only be cut and color corrected using specialized software. Most people don't know about it and can't adjust it.Unexpectedly, this "photography novice" who quit the trap knew everything about it.And I am quite confident in my color mixing.

It seems that she can look forward to the photos in this roll of film.

"Drip!"

"Drip!"

The next morning, Chen Pingsheng was woken up by a WeChat notification. He opened his hazy sleepy eyes and muttered about some bastard who bombarded him with messages so early in the morning. Then he took his phone with one hand and put it in front of his eyes.

When I opened WeChat, a guy with an orange cat as his avatar was sending a message.

"The network disk link of the film has been sent to you."

"Your composition is very unique and your snapshots are great. Are you a professional photographer?"

"What's your shadow circle account? I'll keep an eye on it, Master."

Seeing these happy words, Chen Pingsheng suddenly became energetic and remembered that this account was the WeChat account of Xijiao Studio.

However, he did not reply immediately. Instead, he turned on the computer next to the bed, directly downloaded the photo file, and started color grading.

How can a professional photographer be so proud of a little flattery!
He whistled off-key and opened the special software he downloaded last night, dragged the original photo files into it, selected a single frame first, and separated all the photos.Then select the configuration file and parameters corresponding to the film specifications, and you will see that the original color of the photo with a serious color cast immediately returned to its original color, making it look much more pleasing to the eye.

The next step was to adjust the colors one by one. However, the color adjustment function of the special software was relatively poor. Chen Pingsheng directly exported all the photos to PS and adjusted them one by one.

He was busy all morning and couldn't finish the adjustment until his stomach growled.

However, after finally seeing the results of his shooting, Chen Pingsheng didn’t feel any hardship at all. Instead, he felt extremely satisfied, because for those who love photography, a good photo brings him a huge sense of accomplishment.Not to mention that there is more than just one good photo in this roll of film.

This roll of film contains half good and half bad, which is not Chen Pingsheng's true standard, but he found that his sensitivity to photography was indeed not as good as before.

It seems that the properties of the system are indeed real responses, and it is necessary to schedule training.

When thinking about the system, the most important step of submitting tasks is naturally indispensable.Chen Pingsheng opened the "photography book" and slowly opened a blank photo album. Before Chen Pingsheng could move, he saw an extra row of photos under the album, which were the finished color-corrected versions on his computer.

"It's quite humane." Chen Pingsheng had already made up his mind and quickly put ten photos into the album.

Then, a prompt appeared in front of him.

"Are you sure to submit?"

"Yes."

"This week's task has been submitted and is being evaluated..."

Chen Pingsheng's heart was pounding and he didn't know what kind of evaluation he would get.

"Evaluation completed, this week's rating: A+, 8 lucky draw opportunities."

"Do you want to draw the lottery now?"

"Pump!" Chen Pingsheng breathed a sigh of relief as he looked at the scores. At least he didn't embarrass himself.

When he finished speaking, a small lottery box suddenly jumped out. It looked exactly like the wooden box used for lottery events on the roadside. Chen Pingsheng was frightened because he had never drawn anything good from this thing.Basically they are toothbrushes, scissors and the like.

He saw the lottery box shaking for a while, and there was a crashing sound inside, and then colorful fireworks sprayed out from the prize outlet, and a prompt sounded at the same time.

「恭喜你获得以下奖品：摄影灵感*1、摄影技术*1、牙刷*1、肥皂*1、毛巾*1、博朗尼卡UV滤镜*1、反光板*1、推广机会*1」

"No, why do you really have a three-piece men's facial cleansing set?" Chen Pingsheng couldn't help but complain.

Apart from attribute points, there is nothing useful.

No, no, what is this promotional opportunity?Chen Pingsheng clicked on the props interface and looked at the promotional ticket-style props and the question mark on the upper right.

"You will get a photo promotion opportunity within three days."

"This is good!" Chen Pingsheng, who was worried about how to quickly increase the number of fans, was overjoyed and clicked to use it directly.

Suddenly feeling blessed, he decided to upload the photo to "Photo Circle" immediately.

(End of this chapter)