Rebirth of top photographers

Chapter 70 Master Experience Ticket

"Master's 24-hour experience ticket: Within 24 hours, you can obtain the photography technology, photography inspiration, and photography vision of Bresson at his peak. The final work will be graded to increase your personal attributes."

When Chen Pingsheng sent Qin Yi's photo to Feilin, he could no longer hold back his desire.

At six o'clock in the morning, he stood downstairs, fully armed.

Camera, tripod, flash.I put on my three-piece street style suit and clicked on the master experience coupon to use it.

Cartier-Bresson, a French photographer, is one of the most famous masters of modern times.His theory of "moment aesthetics" has influenced global media and images. At the same time, the Magnum Photo Agency he founded is also the most influential and longest-running photography agency in the world.

What is a decisive moment?In fact, to put it simply, they are photos taken at a moment that is rarely seen.

If you make an analogy, it's like a person spilling a glass of milk, and the milk happens to be poured on a cow, and you capture this moment.

Of course, this is only part of the decisive moment. Bresson, who developed this style, is the undoubted master of snapshots and is known as one of the top ten contemporary photographers.The camera bound to him is a Leica.

This binding complements each other, like the connection between Daido Moriyama and Ricoh.

In the photography industry, this kind of beautiful talk always has a long history and subtly affects everyone, including manufacturers.

So much so that when people of later generations think of instant capture, they think of Leica and Cartier-Bresson.When I think of the streets, Ricoh comes to mind.

When I think of aviation, I think of Hasselblad being taken to the moon.

These are the marks that come with the times and are indelible and unforgettable.

Chen Pingsheng naturally wants to have such a mark, it is an honor.

But he is still far behind, but he can feel the master's style in advance through experience coupons.

"Click." Just as he was thinking wildly, a pedestrian passed by on the opposite side. A strap of the bag he was holding was caught on a telephone pole on the side of the road, causing a wrestling situation for a moment.

Chen Pingsheng's body moved on its own, he quickly adjusted parameters and pressed the shutter.

Before he could recover, a photo had been taken.

After the pedestrians left, Chen Pingsheng realized what had happened. He turned on his camera and played it back. Sure enough, a moment-by-moment snapshot with the perfect composition had been recorded.

"Is it so fast?" For the first time, he felt what the ultimate capture was.

But at the same time, he felt some unique qualities from the photos. If it was just to capture a moment, it seems that many photographers can do it, and there is no shortage of such works in the world.

But why is only Bresson’s decisive moment so famous?
Is it because it was taken early?
Chen Pingsheng doesn't think so. He can see it from this photo.

The man in the photo is pulling his backpack and looking back at the street lamp with a confused and confused expression. He seems to be asking the street lamp why he is pulling his bag.

Yes, it's so magical, a man is competing with a street lamp for his backpack.

It doesn't look like something that would actually happen at all.

But Chen Pingsheng suddenly realized that the feeling of this photo was more surreal than just a moment.On the one hand, the composition pays attention to geometric beauty, on the other hand, the content is full of unusual and rare surreal moments.

Through shooting, Chen Pingsheng gradually began to understand the greatness of Bresson.

He is actually using surreal techniques to express his observations of the world. This is the secret that makes Bresson stand out from countless photographers.

And when he felt the real knowledge contained in this photo, he obviously felt that he had made a breakthrough in his thinking.

So he walked towards the older city. He originally planned to go to the center of the city.But now, he is going to the most dilapidated places, the places that lack the beauty of order the most.

Capture your own surreal decisive moment from there. "Click."

"Crack."

Along the way, Chen Pingsheng occasionally took pictures with the camera in his hand. Through his feelings, he understood that Bresson himself was not a street fighter like Daido Moriyama.Not a photographer who records through chaos.

Each of his photos has his own aesthetic conception of composition, and all of them contain geometry.

When Chen Pingsheng passed by a step, he suddenly had inspiration, walked up the step, and stood at the top.

I raised my camera and didn't rush to take the photo. Instead, I first adjusted the composition to the most comfortable area.

The iron railings on the steps were used to fill the picture. The spiral-shaped steps and railings brought the beauty of order, triangles and rectangles, while leaving enough blank space at the path in the upper left corner. Chen Pingsheng fixed his posture and began the long journey. of waiting.

There was a pedestrian passing by in the upper left corner, but Chen Pingsheng ignored it.

There was a child running quickly from the side, but he still ignored it.

Waiting and waiting, it wasn't until he heard the sound of the bicycle that he got excited and prepared to take the photo.

The bicycle passed quickly, but unfortunately, the direction the person was driving was not the direction Chen Pingsheng expected. He still had to wait for the next bicycle.

Just waited like this for half an hour.

Chen Pingsheng's feet were a little sore when he stood, and at the same time he was deeply aware of how determined the master was in filming.

Once you encounter a location that can be photographed, it is like a warrior entering the Colosseum. No matter what, never give up.

Huangtian paid off, and finally after a few girls left, a very fast mountain bike drove past.

"Click!" Chen Pingsheng pressed the shutter without any hesitation.

Then he looked at the photo and breathed a sigh of relief.He finally captured this decisive moment.

Although a little tiring, it's definitely worth it.

After sitting there and resting for a while, Chen Pingsheng continued to move forward.We have arrived at the outskirts of the city. It looks like a third-tier county town. The old buildings are all earth-colored. The shop signs at the entrance no longer follow the rules and are inconsistent and different in size.In addition to auto repairs, there is also electric welding on this street.

Several children wearing outdated sweaters ran by, their voices noisy but full of childishness.

After walking for a while, Chen Pingsheng saw an abandoned church ahead.

Although I don’t know when it was built, it seems to have been abandoned for who knows how many years.

Viewed from a distance, the iron bars surrounding the church look like the spears raised by the knights guarding the church, but their color has long darkened, as if the knights have aged.The church steeple also collapsed in half and no one was repairing it.

Even the front of the church has been filled with blocked sewage, forming a medium-sized lake.

Chen Pingsheng came to the sewage and raised his camera. He didn't know what he wanted to take, but he felt that there must be the picture he wanted here.

At this time, an old man passed by from the other side. He walked slowly to the iron railing behind the sewage, and stared at the church with his hands behind his back, as if he was remembering and sizing up.

However, Chen Pingsheng did not take pictures because he felt it was not enough.

So he continued to wait.

(End of this chapter)