Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 202 Photography
At noon on September 28th, a big red list was posted on the factory bulletin board, which listed the list of model workers commended on the National Day of this year.

In fact, as early as half a month ago, this year's model workers had already been selected, and the specific list had already been circulated in the factory.

In previous years, the red list of model workers would be announced a week or two before the National Day, but this year the list was not officially announced in the factory until today, because this year's factory model workers involved a sensitive issue of housing allocation, so the factory delayed this time. There is no public list for a long time, but it was released in advance, just to see if the factory workers have any strong objections to this year's selection of model workers.

However, in the past half month, the factory has been running smoothly, and no one has asked the leaders to raise opinions and make troubles because of the selection of model workers. This made the factory leaders heave a sigh of relief, so the list was finally announced.

In fact, the selection of model workers this year is indeed fair. Most of the winners are former "professional model workers" in the factory. Some of them have been selected as model workers for eight consecutive years. All of them are old technicians with excellent work attitude and reputation. Overtime hours and work output are among the best of the shops, so no one can fault them.

The only special thing is Duan Yun. Duan Yun's service life is too short. According to the factory regulations, he is not qualified to select model workers. However, Duan Yun's two consecutive technological transformations in the factory have greatly improved the production efficiency of the workshop. The reward for being No.1 in the technical transformation competition of the whole factory is the nomination of model workers. This is an open and fair competition, so even if some people are jealous of the number of model workers that Duan Yun won this time, they really have nothing to say.

On the day the list was announced, Duan Yun was notified by the factory to gather at the staff club at [-]:[-] p.m. and prepare to take pictures.

Before the photo was taken, female workers from the publicity department of several factories helped Duan Yun and several other model workers do simple makeup.

Duan Yun had a big red flower pinned to his chest, his hair had been combed a bit, and he wore a fake collar around his neck, making him look much more energetic.

In the 80s and 100s, if you want to take pictures, you have to go to the state-run photo studio, and the price is relatively high, so taking pictures at that time is to record important moments in life, such as the [-]th day of birth, wedding photos, family portraits, etc.

The gear factory also doesn't have dedicated photographers, so we can only contact the masters of the state-owned photo studio in the urban area in advance to come to the factory to take pictures.

Cameras are also a "luxury" in this day and age.In the 80s and [-]s, the most famous one was the seagull camera.

At that time, the price of a Seagull DF camera was as high as 450 yuan. The price of the camera itself was relatively expensive, and the film was a big expense.

For example, for a seagull fixed-focus camera that uses film, the cheapest Lucky film costs about ten yuan, and the processing costs ten yuan, so the cost of a roll of film to take pictures is about 30 yuan, and the monthly salary at that time was also [-] yuan. It's only a few dozen yuan, so buying a camera to take pictures by yourself is definitely a luxury.

But when Duan Yun saw the seagull camera in the hand of the photo studio master who took pictures of him, he immediately had the idea of ​​buying it in his mind.

"Little comrade, straighten your back and smile...don't laugh so exaggeratedly, just smile...yes, that's it, don't blink..."

The photographer pointed to Duan Yun who was sitting in front of the camera, and when everything was ready, he skillfully pressed the shutter.

"That's all right." Duan Yun asked casually after seeing the master put down the camera.

"Okay, next one!" The master waved to Duan Yun.

Seeing this, Duan Yun walked to the side, took off the red flower and fake collar on his chest, and did not leave immediately, but stood aside and looked at it with great interest.

In the previous life, Duan Yun also bought a digital camera to take pictures with his girlfriend when traveling, but he didn’t have any photography skills. Basically, as long as he can take a full-body photo in, he is qualified. Later, the effect of taking pictures with the mobile phone It got better and better, and the cheap digital camera he bought was completely put in the cabinet to eat ashes.

After waiting for nearly an hour, the photographer Fu Cai finished all the shots and was about to leave with his equipment.

"Master, wait!" Seeing that the old master was about to leave, Duan Yun immediately shouted with a smile on his face.

"What's the matter, Comrade Model Worker?" The photographer turned his head to look at Duan Yun, and then replied with a smile.

The model workers photographed just now are almost all middle-aged and elderly people, only Duan Yun is a young man, so the photographer is still very impressed with Duan Yun.

"Master, it's like this..." Duan Yun pulled the gray-haired old master aside, and after seeing no one around, he said, "I want to ask, master, can you come and take a set of photos for me?"

"You want to take a family portrait?" the photographer asked.

Generally speaking, state-run photo studios will occasionally come to take some family portraits for some elderly families with limited mobility. However, since this is a state-owned photo studio with limited manpower and equipment, there are usually many people taking pictures, and photographers are not allowed to bring their own cameras. Shooting outside, so in this case, you must get a certificate from the unit or the street to provide door-to-door service, and the price will be much more expensive.

"It's not about taking a family portrait, but I just want you to take photos of some objects for me." Duan Yun said.

"Not taking pictures of people?" The photographer was stunned for a moment when he heard the words, and then shook his head like a rattle, and said: "Our photo studio has regulations. When you come to take family portraits for the elderly with disabilities, you need to have a street or factory certificate, or Invited by the factory unit, and in other cases, door-to-door shooting is not allowed.”

"I can add money..."

"I said little comrade, it's not about money, we really have regulations, if you can't go, you can't go." The photographer said.

"Okay." Duan Yun nodded upon hearing this.

State-run photo studios are not as rigid as private photo studios. The rules and systems are rigid, and they will not be flexible for commercialization. This also makes Duan Yun's plan to let the photo studio help him take photos for brochures.

"Then... can your photo studio help with photo editing?" Duan Yun asked after pondering for a while.

"It's okay to develop photos. Our photo studio has a clearly marked price for this." The photographer said.

"That's fine, thank you." Duan Yun heard the words and thanked you.

Seeing the photographer leave, Duan Yun thought about it.

Now it seems that if he wants to make brochures, he can only buy the camera himself.

Fortunately, I have a huge sum of more than 5 yuan in my hand, so spending a few hundred yuan to buy a camera is a piece of cake.

It’s just that Duan Yun feels that the product catalog made by shooting speakers alone is too simple, and it is difficult to catch people’s attention.

But if beautiful female models are commonly used in combination with products to shoot advertising catalogs like later generations, it will definitely be more attractive.

But in this day and age, Duan Yun really can't think of how to find a female model...

(End of this chapter)