travel starts with photography

Chapter 203 "The Year of China"

"Xing, what are you looking at?"

Chen Xing looked at the middle-aged female teacher who had sunk into the ocean of history on the podium, and said softly, "I posted a video of my travels in China on Youtube, and I'm just reading the comments."

"Huaxia's travel video? Xing, please share it with me!"

This classmate named Ke Leiji was in high spirits.

In the eyes of many Westerners, China is a virgin land. There are enthusiastic Chinese people, rich geographical diversity, and unique ethnic customs. These are very novel and mysterious to them.

But... very few people go.

If French students want to choose a place to travel, they can go to Northern Europe to see the world of ice and snow, and then go to Southern Europe to see Italy, Spain, etc., to feel the style of Southern Europe, but few people go to China.

Because of mystery.

Mysterious means scary.

It doesn't prevent foreigners from learning about Huaxia, but the key is that they can't understand Huaxia's characters, so they still know about Huaxia on various English social media.

But almost all videos that beautify the country will have someone come out to make trouble.

Talk about what is bad in the country, what is not free, the people live in dire straits, they can't even afford tea eggs, and the law and order is very poor.

These remarks stopped many people who wanted to travel to China.

In recent years, with the rise of Huaxia's international status, there are fewer and fewer foreign talents who believe in these remarks, and some foreigners even quarrel with people who are bad-mouthing Huaxia under the video, which has to be said to be a kind of progress.

Nowadays, even those slightly smaller attractions can see foreigners visiting.

Ke Leiji is a Norwegian photographer, six years older than Chen Xing, and is planning a trip in two months.

Speaking of this, I have to mention the issue of French holidays. For domestic students, there are many European university holidays, but for Europeans, they are also envious of France. Many universities in Paris can even decide to enroll independently. right to date.

For example, the beginning of a semester is September. In principle, the summer vacation is from June [-] to September [-], but students in many schools can register at the end of September, and then the school officially enters the course from October. study.

Early June to end September.

This is close to four months, which is enough for the students to travel around the world.

As long as you don't walk around the world, you can play whatever you want.

"You want to go to Huaxia?"

"It's kind of like that. I see that the photos on the Internet are all beautiful, and you Chinese people are also very enthusiastic."

Chen Xing shared his video address with him.

Ke Leiji secretly watched the video with his earphones on.

The history of photography is dispensable to a photographer. At most, it allows you to get to know some predecessors who pioneered photography technology. It cannot teach you any technology. Although Chen Xing lacks this point, he has no interest in it.

Multitasking, listening to the teacher talk about the development of photography decades ago, while looking at the next curriculum.

In the afternoon, there is a section on composition appreciation. Composition is the most basic skill in photography. From beginners to top masters, they are always racking their brains to find a composition, but Chen Xing has no interest in this class at all.

His composition is a top-level technique directly instilled by the system, it is enough to be a teacher here, so do you still need to learn?
In the courses of the past few days, the only thing Chen Xing is interested in is color science. Now his understanding of color is at a very high stage, but his application skills are still relatively rudimentary. He wants to see if he can use it In this lesson, you will learn some techniques of using color.

I don't know what the art photography course taught by Professor Nobel is about. This is also a course that Chen Xing pays more attention to.

After this class was over, the girl who pulled Chen Xing into the class group yesterday found Chen Xing.

"Xing, can you give me some of the works you took? Everyone in our class took about five and put them in the corridor on the third floor. Now it's up to you."

"Everyone's work? Can you show me?"

The girl said neatly, "Of course!"

She looks ordinary, but she is very efficient in speaking and doing things. On the way, she introduced herself as Romanchenko, the coordinator of their photography class, which can be translated into domestic class monitors, grade representatives and so on.

Whether it is the corridor on the school floor or the corner of the stairs, the whole school is full of various works of students, teachers, professors, and outstanding graduates, some of which are architectural sketches and some are oil paintings.

Painting does not have an independent major in this school, but it is a course that most majors must learn.

If you graduate from a top art school, you can't paint if you don't know how to paint.

So even at the photography school where Chen Xing attended, there are sketching, oil painting and other courses in the courses.

On the third floor, Chen Xing saw a lot of works taken by cameras.

Romanchenko pointed to a row and said: "No. 252 from here to the front is the work of our classmates. Every work can be shortlisted and even won prizes in ordinary photography exhibitions..."

She is very proud.

However, when he thought of Chen Xing having won the category A award at the top photography festival, his complacency subsided a little.

"If your work is given to me, it should be placed in this position." She pointed to the space in the middle of a row of photos, towards the top. This is an excellent viewing angle and position, but people who need to watch look up slightly.

“After all, good work is privileged,” she said.

Chen Xing stroked his chin and looked over one by one.

The third-year students of the School of Photography are indeed a little level, and they have all broken away from the ordinary concept of "beautiful photography" photography, and began to pursue the art department, appreciation, and even a lot of it is not pure photography, but the interaction between photography and PS. Combined product.

Photography is always connected with retouching. Here, Chen Xing took it out alone, which proves that the proportion of PS is completely beyond the scope of normal photography, and has reached a photography style dominated by PS.

For example, there is a photo in which the photographer takes the telephone pole as the main body and uses dense wires to divide the day into ten parts.

In the photos, there are the stars in the middle of the night, the rising sun, the light rain, the dazzling rainbow after the rain, and the dazzling sunshine.

After reading all the works of the third grade, Chen Xing also looked at the works of other grades of the School of Photography, nodded and said: "I see, I will sort out my works and send them to you when I go back. Are they for you?"

"Yes, just add me on Facebook APP."

Back at the residence, Chen Xing began to select a few of his works and send them to Romanchenko.

Romanchenko wants Chen Xing to show the award-winning photos inside and outside the words. This not only improves the face of the School of Photography in the school, but also improves the aesthetics of the students of the School of Photography. How about someone who has learned Chen Xing's shooting style?
It is difficult to develop a new style on the road of photography, so all photographers who can break through are the objects of learning and imitation by other photographers and enthusiasts.

But Chen Xing did not choose those few works on the snow mountain.

Instead, I took some photos taken in Xinchang Ancient Town during the Chinese New Year.

After taking out the original film, grading and retouching, Chen Xing sent all these works to Romanchenko.

[Hello, this is my work, I named it Huaxia Nian]

【……Can】

Romanchenko didn't expect that he had hinted so clearly. Chen Xing also came up with some new works, and they were completely Chinese-style works.

It is reasonable to say that it is a personal matter for the students to put any work on the wall, but she deliberately vacated the best position in their class, just to see Chen Xing's most famous snow mountain series, and this?
China Year series?
She clicked on Chen Xing's work in her notebook.

The first one is on the street, with countless people standing on both sides of the street and taking pictures with their mobile phones. In the middle is a team of dragon dancers wearing red shirts or shirtless. The fireworks are overflowing and the lights are dim. It can make her feel the atmosphere of the Chinese New Year.

The overall composition is magnificent and joyful.

She thought of the gossip that had spread in the past two days.

I heard that Chen Xing was rejected by the National Academy of Fine Arts because he paid too much attention to the Chinese style in his photography, but their School of Decoration didn't care about it, especially some professors still liked Chen Xing's style, so they accepted the third-year .

The third grade is just a transition, and I will be upgraded to the fourth grade with them in a few months.

The second one is a portrait, a girl in a red jacket with two small ball heads standing under a red Chinese knot with characters, pulling the tassels under the Chinese knot with her hands, looking at it with a smile on her face lens.

Such a lovely child.

The third picture is also a little girl, holding a red balloon in her hand. The photographer’s composition is to use the red balloon as the foreground, and use a quarter of the balloon to block the surrounding environment, so that the audience’s eyes can pay attention to the The little girl's face.

She is looking at her red balloon, agile and focused.

Romanchenko looked more and more seriously.

It is indeed a person who can win an award at a top photography festival. The person who said on the Internet that he only won this award because of the bag grabbing scandal is really sour.

Instead of those photos of the Snow Mountain series, these few photos are enough for them to study.

How did Chen Xing achieve the effect of humanistic photography with such basic portrait photography technology?
Portrait photography is very basic in the circle. Those who have been admitted to the Higher School of Decoration are not very willing to take portraits, but Chen Xing uses portraits to shoot China's humanities and art.

Even the work of a little girl holding a balloon can feel the joy in her heart.

Romanchenko is thinking, if there are more works like Chen Xing, and a photography exhibition can be created, then just by looking at Chen Xing's works, one can feel a festive atmosphere and understand most of China's New Year's feelings .

"It's really good work," she said.

Romanchenko hurriedly found someone to make these photos, and she wanted to put these photos in the corridor for people to appreciate tomorrow.

Paris is a diverse city, where you can see all styles of art. Oriental art has appeared in the works of island countries a long time ago, and there are even special appreciation and analysis of island country Ukiyo-e in the school.

In her opinion, if Chen Xing can continue to carry forward this Chinese style, then maybe sometime he will be able to see the appreciation of Chinese art in the art school in Paris.

She is also very familiar with Huaxia.

After all, she is a Russian, and her hometown is also next to Northeast China.

………………

Chen Xing is still re-editing and dubbing previous travel videos.

Due to this period of time, Chen Xing himself was very popular in China, and after the video was uploaded on Youtube, he could not be considered unknown. Some fans came out to support him after learning about it. This series of videos attracted me.

A few days later, after Chen Xing finished an introduction to art, the professor stopped Chen Xing when the get out of class was over.

"Huaxia Xing, just wait a moment."

Chen Xing talked to the students next to him, and then waited in the classroom.

Students in the Department of Photography prepare very little, and can leave the classroom directly after school, but professors generally carry a lot of manuscript paper, and professors at the School of Advanced Decoration like to read some professional data during class.

So it will take a while to clean up.

After the professor finished cleaning up, he looked back at Chen Xing and said with a smile, "Xing, you have been here for a while from Huaxia, how do you feel about your life in our school?"

"I can learn knowledge every day, and I feel very fulfilled."

The professor walked away with the textbook, and Chen Xing followed him. He continued:
"You came too late, and you have never experienced the extracurricular teaching that your classmates have experienced before... You are very good, but these experiences are also very important. After all, you will have your own professional direction in the future, maybe forever There will never be an opportunity like this again.”

"Teacher, you mean?"

"You have to make up for these experiences. Two days later, one of my students was invited to ELLE to shoot commercial photography. If you have time, you can follow me to see it. Of course, see more and do less. They can't afford you to shoot Woolen cloth."

"...Teacher, stop joking."

Chen Xing and the professor happened to pass by the third floor. He glanced at the crowded corridor and said with a smile, "Work hard, Professor Nobel is waiting for you to help him when you are in the fourth grade."

He patted Chen Xing on the shoulder and went downstairs to his office.

Chen Xing looked at the corridor.

A few days ago, my own work was placed in the corridor. This kind of Chinese New Year work that Paris artists rarely saw, quickly attracted them.

It's not like they haven't experienced the Huaxia Year.

The thirteenth arrondissement of Paris is the Chinese district. Every New Year there is a traditional dragon dance performance, but no photographer has ever been able to capture the essence of the Chinese New Year, and what they pay most attention to is not the dragon dance, but the two small photos. Portrait of girl.

Cover-level work!

This is the common evaluation of several professors in the school.

(End of this chapter)