Rebirth of top photographers

Chapter 203: Complex Urban Scene (Combined Chapter Youcai)

"Marshmallows, delicious marshmallows."

When Chen Pingsheng heard the sound, he stopped and looked at the marshmallow seller passing by.

He was pushing a cart, and in addition to the machine for making marshmallows, he also had a long bamboo pole with holes all over it.Every time the uncle finished making a marshmallow, he would stick it on top for display and storage.

Chen Pingsheng felt that such a scene was very suitable for filming.

So he followed the uncle all the way and stopped near the intersection.

The uncle looked at the passing crowd, shouted and shouted, and quickly made two pink marshmallows.

Under the sunlight, it looks shiny and attractive.

The uncle inserted them on the bamboo pole one by one. Just as he was inserting the second one, Chen Pingsheng pressed the shutter.

At this time, the uncle's head was blocked by the marshmallow, which looked very funny. He raised his hand high to put the second marshmallow where it should be.Surrounded by very old streets and shop exteriors, you can also see cotton candy-like clouds in the blue sky in the distance.

Pink, blue, turquoise, these colors present large areas of color blocks in the picture, dividing the picture into several parts.However, because of this, the collision of multiple colors is more eye-catching.

When Uncle Marshmallow left, there was already one marshmallow missing from the bamboo pole.

Because it was turning into sugar water in Chen Pingsheng's mouth and flowing into his stomach.

"It's so sweet!" Chen Pingsheng felt a little panicked after eating half of it.

The sweetness is just right for children, but it's a bit too heavy for him.

Feeling the taste of saccharin in his mouth, he continued walking along the road, and stopped when he passed a house.

Because of the color of the wall, it is divided into two parts, the upper half is white and the lower half is yellow.

Chen Pingsheng felt that the two colors paired with the black shadows set off by the sunlight were very consistent with his inner feelings.

So he found a shared bicycle, sat on its chair, looked at the opposite wall with his camera, and waited for his favorite picture to appear.

Several children passed by while playing, their shadows stretched on the wall.

Chen Pingsheng shook his head and felt normal.

Several workers walked past, and their shadows were scattered high and low, but Chen Pingsheng felt that it was not balanced enough.

Continuing to wait, Chen Pingsheng looked at the shadow that was slowly sinking along with the path of the sun, thinking that it was impossible not to be in a hurry.

But photographers have to face this kind of thing. When the picture in your mind cannot match the scene you want to shoot, whether to insist on waiting becomes the moment for everyone to make a decision.

Some people may continue to wait, but others may also look for the next scene.

If Chen Pingsheng himself is concerned, he prefers to wait. A picture with a clear composition is always better than aimlessly looking for it.

But Alex Weber doesn’t seem to think so.

Under the influence of the character of the experience ticket, Chen Pingsheng left that place and came to another place.

In fact, after these few experience coupons, Chen Pingsheng has already felt the deeper changes it has brought about.

This not only allowed him to have the same technique and aesthetics as the masters, but more importantly, he briefly gained the masters' thoughts and emotions when shooting.

Human beings are controlled by the brain. When Chen Pingsheng's thoughts and emotions tend to be like these masters, he will naturally make the same decision as the masters.

For example, Vivian's selfie in the mirror was not actually about control, but a change in his way of thinking, which caused Chen Pingsheng to have a strong emotion in his heart when he saw the mirror.

Another example is that here and now, Chen Pingsheng was faced with a decision. The first thing he thought about was whether he could come back and continue filming later.

Then he decided it was okay because the sun wouldn't set for a long time.

That being the case, there's no need to keep waiting.

So he chose to leave and shoot other scenes, which were better from an intellectual point of view.

But from a perceptual point of view, this kind of shooting is not coherent enough and persistent enough.

But this is everyone's style, and it is also the inevitable result of using the Master Experience Voucher.

Chen Pingsheng feels that this is a good idea. Only by learning from the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought can he find the shooting method that best suits him.

Even though his current shooting techniques and works have reached a level that many people cannot reach, he still has a lot to improve on.

The various choices in the shooting process also require him to continuously accumulate experience in order to make better solutions.

Chen Pingsheng didn't go too far. He walked through the alleys and houses, observing the surrounding situation.

It's not a big place. After walking for 10 minutes, I walked out of this area.So he turned his head again and returned to the location where he thought he could shoot.

Here is a small courtyard. The husband is standing next to the door, talking to his wife inside.

He was wearing a light blue shirt and a white hat. He spoke with a strong XJ accent, but you could still hear the general content clearly: "You are really going to drive me crazy, aren't you!"

The sounds in the room were too far apart to be heard.

I could only barely hear a few words, "university" and "daughter".

After hearing this, the husband became even more excited. He pushed the wooden board next to him to the ground, spread out his hands and raised them up: "She doesn't want to come back, where can I find her! Why didn't you think about her in the first place! Now I'm starting to regret it. She volunteered!”

There was a faint sound of a woman sobbing in the room.

The husband sighed heavily, then put his hands on the wall outside the house. The dog next to him suddenly barked a few times, and he looked back.

Just for a moment, "Click!" The slight sound of taking pictures was covered by the barking of dogs. Chen Pingsheng put down the camera and watched the man enter the house through the low courtyard wall.

Looking down at the photo I took, the main theme of this photo is the thick shadows and the house illuminated by the sun.

On the far left is a man holding his hands on the wall in the sun, and on the far right are two dogs lying in the sun, exposing themselves wantonly, with one of them looking up at Chen Pingsheng.

In the middle of the two, there is a large area of ​​black, splitting the picture into two halves.

Every family has sutras that are difficult to recite. Chen Pingsheng walked along the path with this sentence in mind.

The environment here is really frowning. The garbage dump next to the small courtyard is like a hill. They are piled together and emit an unpleasant smell. There are also swarms of flies buzzing in the sky.

But even in such an environment, there are still people who can lie not far away, hiding in the corner with peace of mind.

Chen Pingsheng stood opposite him and could not see his face clearly because his crossed legs covered his upper body.

Only the black slippers and dark and dirty ankles can be seen. The pants are all covered with gray and black marks, and the original color cannot be seen at all.

This is another place covered in light and shadow.

It is also Chen Pingsheng’s favorite shooting scene.

He raised the camera, endured the pungent smell, and quietly waited for the possible finishing touch.

The man lying there seemed to have noticed him. He held his head in his hands and looked at Chen Pingsheng.

Chen Pingsheng also glanced at him.

His messy hair was covered with white flakes, and his lush beard showed no signs of being groomed. His eyes opened and closed as if they were stimulated by the sunlight outside.

When he saw the camera in Chen Pingsheng's hand, he frowned and then muttered: "What are you taking pictures of? Don't take pictures, don't take pictures."

"Brother." Chen Pingsheng knew that it was useless to say anything at this time, so he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket.

Although he doesn't smoke, when he goes out to shoot, he still needs to prepare some necessary humane and sophisticated props in advance.

"Smoke? I don't smoke!" Unexpectedly, my eldest brother didn't like this.

Chen Pingsheng raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you want, brother? I'll just take a photo, and I won't take your face."

"That won't work either!" The eldest brother shook his head, stretched out his hand to scratch his creaky pit, and rubbed out a few mud balls.

Then while playing with his hands, he said: "Don't shoot, don't let me shoot."

"Then big brother, can I give you some labor fees?" Chen Pingsheng did not mention the money directly. Seeing that the big brother was silent, he added: "For 50 yuan, I will take a photo."

"51?" The elder brother suddenly became energetic and wondered: "Really?"

"Of course, I'll pay you fifty in advance." Chen Pingsheng took out his mobile phone.

"Okay, but we agreed, 51 photos. If you take two, you have to pay one hundred!" The elder brother thought that Xiao Jiujiu was very good. If he made a little trouble during the shooting, the photo would be in vain. Then You can get fifty more by yourself.

"Brother, this is too expensive. The photos I took are not even worth fifty." Chen Pingsheng looked embarrassed, but he was right. After all, a single photo has never been sold, which means it is worthless.

"I don't care, don't you want to shoot? Then I'm leaving." After the eldest brother patted his butt, he got up and left.

"Okay, brother, then 51!" Chen Pingsheng pretended to grit his teeth, and then said: "But brother, you can't cause trouble, just lie down here."

"No problem!" The elder brother chuckled and handed the payment code to Chen Pingsheng quickly.

Chen Pingsheng paid the money and then returned to his previous position, holding up the camera.

"When are you going to take the photo?" The eldest brother asked him, turning his head after lying down.

"Don't worry, listen to the sound of my shutter." Chen Pingsheng pointed the camera in another direction and took a picture.

The eldest brother listened to the "click" sound and nodded.

"This sound means I took a picture, just remember it." Chen Pingsheng said.

"ojbk, brother, I'm lying down." The eldest brother lay happily on the ground, but his ears stood up and his eyes squinted at Chen Pingsheng.

However, this wait is 10 minutes.

The eldest brother was lying on the ground, wanting to sleep but couldn't. He heard the sound but didn't hear it. If he hadn't been watching, he almost thought that this kid had left long ago.

"Are you taking pictures?" He couldn't bear the silence, so he raised his head and asked.

"I haven't taken any pictures yet, don't worry." Chen Pingsheng was very patient. Since he spent money, he naturally wanted to take the best pictures.

"Is it so troublesome for you to take pictures? I see the photographers in the scenic area take pictures very fast. Why are you so ink-stained?"

Chen Pingsheng smiled: "My skills are not good, so I have to adjust my condition."

"If you're not good at technology, then you have to learn! Looking at you like this, you don't look like an expert." The eldest brother acted like he was giving advice. "Yes, yes." Chen Pingsheng had an expression on his face that said, "Everything you say is right." Then he suddenly saw a man wearing a hat appear in the distance.

"I'm telling you, if you want to take good pictures, you have to read more and learn more, you know." The eldest brother was still chattering, with his legs crossed and his hands resting on the back of his head to make himself lie more comfortably.

Chen Pingsheng echoed while moving his finger to the shutter position.

The man in the hat came over, threw the cigarette butt under the wall, leaned back against the wall, and looked back as he listened to the eldest brother's words that were foaming at the mouth.

Just in time, the sun hit his face, and the shadow on his face blocked by the brim of his hat formed a dividing line.

Through the screen, Chen Pingsheng could only see his left eye.

"Crack!"

Chen Pingsheng pressed the shutter and captured the picture he wanted.

The elder brother who was lying down also heard the sound and immediately raised his head and asked: "Did you take the shot?"

"Yes, I took a picture." Chen Pingsheng nodded.

"One picture will definitely not achieve the effect. Let me turn over and see if this position works." The eldest brother turned over and stretched out his legs. It didn't look like he was near a garbage dump, but like he was sunbathing on the beach. sun.

Unexpectedly, Chen Pingsheng shook his head: "No, I'm done filming."

After saying that, I saw him get up and leave.

"Hey! Why so fast? Did you take too many photos without telling me?" The eldest brother stood up and saw Chen Pingsheng walking further and further away, so he couldn't help but chase after him a few steps.

"I don't want you to be fifty! Thirty!" Chen Pingsheng continued walking.

"twenty!"

"Ten dollars!"

When the elder brother saw that the price had dropped to the lowest, Chen Pingsheng did not look back. He walked back to the garbage pile and spat: "The photo must not have been good!"

At the same time, Chen Pingsheng, who was far away from the garbage pair, returned to the place where he had not waited for a suitable picture before.

There were two children sitting at the table by the wall. They were carrying a big bag filled with books, which seemed to be sold for money.

Chen Pingsheng did not get too close, but walked outside the small convenience store separated by a wall.

The sun has begun to set now. Taking advantage of the afterglow of dusk, Chen Pingsheng wants to take this photo.

"Have you paid your wages?"

While he was waiting, two workers passed by, one wearing a peaked cap and the other with a bald head.The two of them bought two packs of cigarettes from the convenience store, walked to Chen Pingsheng and started puffing away, chatting about the construction site.

"No!" Baldhead spat and continued: "That idiot said that the salary must be paid next month."

"You're here on the 15th, it's really next month." The hatter explained.

"Then I've been working for more than ten days, and I'm just going to save it all the time? Send it to me next month?"

"I'll pay you half a month's salary next month, but he's giving you half a month's salary this time."

"I don't have anything like this at home. What do you mean, I won't post it!" The bald man looked annoyed.

"I'll give it to you when you resign." The hat worker was no longer surprised. He was smoking a cigarette and his tone was very calm.

Chen Pingsheng kept listening, but most of his attention was focused on the wall opposite, because as time passed, their shadows were reflected on it, and they were extremely clear.

The shadows of the two people and the two little boys formed a balance, as if there was some hidden meaning.

He raised the camera and pointed it at the wall. The moment he pressed the shutter, the children turned their heads and looked this way.

Because they were attracted by the words of the two men, the photos taken by Chen Pingsheng were exactly after the children turned around.

But this is good, Chen Pingsheng thinks this feeling is not bad.

After taking this photo, the sun was slowly setting.

Without sunshine, street photography would be impossible, so Chen Pingsheng returned home and had a good night's rest.

The next day, he continued taking photos on the streets.

The Master Experience Voucher has a 24-hour trial period. Although it takes some time to sleep at night, it actually has little impact.

Especially a photographer like Alex Weber.

Chen Pingsheng has captured his essence, which is the rational distribution of complex compositions and the collision of different colors to attract the eye.

The premise of complex composition is that various elements need to be expressed in the form of contrast, structure, and direction in the picture.

Simply put, if you are photographing people, the positioning relationship between them is very important.

From a structural point of view, they need to remain independent in the picture without overlapping, and it is best to be scattered in every corner to fill up the empty picture without buildings.

From the perspective of direction, the elements in the picture must contain at least two of the three types of horizontal, vertical, and oblique directions at the same time, so that the picture can have a sense of balance.

From a comparison point of view, it is best for various elements and characters to create a certain sense of gap.Such as size contrast, such as light and dark contrast, such as color contrast.This will also give the photo a suggestive feel, making it more interpretable.

Of course, in actual shooting, these things are very basic, and reasonable capture timing and sensitive photography sense are more important.

But after mastering these, you will at least have a basic idea in your mind. When shooting, you will know what scenes are easy to produce and what scenes are useless.

Just like the scene before Chen Pingsheng, there were many people waiting for the traffic light standing in front of him.

It seems that they can take very interesting photos, but if you look closely, you will find that their positions are extremely concentrated, leaving a large blank space, and their movements are chaotic.

If you are taking a news picture, there is no problem with this kind of picture. Just take a picture of their hand position and half body, because they are all holding mobile phones.

Or you can shoot their feet to reflect the busyness of the city.

But this is not what Chen Pingsheng wants, because these pictures are so good.

Good filming means low difficulty, and low difficulty means that a large amount of similar content is produced every day, and naturally no one is willing to watch it.

Therefore, complex composition sounds simple, but in fact it is very difficult to get started.

Chen Pingsheng walked around the building complex and suddenly discovered a scene.

It was a staircase leading from the first floor to the first floor of a building, right next to the road, and behind it you could see a large number of buildings and the city's large concert hall.

The reason why this place is suitable for shooting is that a total of five people appeared on this street together.

A man wearing a white shirt and carrying a black handbag is sitting on the marble handrail of the stairs away from Chen Pingsheng, the place closest to the camera.His expression was a little annoyed, and he was covering his head, as if he was worried about his mistakes at work.

Looking back, you can see a man wearing red pants sitting on the steps of the stairs on the right, with one hand on his forehead to block his eyes, and the other hand hanging on his knee.

Looking further to the left, a man in formal attire has his back to the camera, waiting for the green light to cross the road.

And to his left, at the outermost edge of the screen, there is a man in brown pants waiting for a taxi.

Correspondingly, on the far right side of the screen, there is a man in casual clothes walking into the negative floor.

Five people, but facing completely different directions, sitting with completely different things, and the most important thing is that there is no obstruction between each other. This is undoubtedly the most suitable picture for shooting complex compositions!
Chen Pingsheng didn't say anything and pressed the shutter directly.

"Crack!"

He looked at the photo with satisfaction and felt that this was a very representative work and would also be one of the best annotations for the entire photo album.

It can help all readers quickly understand the style of the work.

After the filming was completed, he kept wandering around, not walking, but riding his bicycle looking for locations to shoot.

I don't know how long it took, but Chen Pingsheng finally discovered a very interesting place on a street corner.

This is near a university town in South China, and there are many foreign students. In order to attract these customers, the decoration style of many shops is also more foreign-oriented.

Even the text on the signboard is in large English.

The same is true for the corner in front of me. Downstairs of an old residential building, across a corner, there are two shops with completely different styles.

One is earthy yellow, with obvious Middle Eastern colors, and the other is deep red, with a more retro feel.

And Chen Pingsheng also found a telephone pole not far from the corner.

Put the lens behind the telephone pole, and you can clearly see the feeling of two worlds through the lens.

The two stores are clearly distinct, and the different colors seem to travel through parallel time and space.

The most amazing thing is that the colors of the floor tiles are slightly different, lighter on the left and darker on the right.

Chen Pingsheng raised his camera, waited for several foreigners to come to the left, and then pressed the shutter.

A photo with strong tonal contrast is presented like this.
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"Photography style: 10 points (out of 10 points). Strong emotional fragments, complex compositional relationships, strong color contrasts, and the rational use of picture elements to form your own expression are the keys to Alex Weber's works."

"Photography composition: 10 points (out of 10 points). Although the photo is flat, it can make everyone exclaim when they look at it: This is too three-dimensional."

"Photography color: 9.5 points (out of 10 points), bold, contrasting colors, looks complex but not cluttered, this is his specialty."

"Expression content: 9 points (out of 10 points). Alex Weber is not concerned about groups, but about the common difficulties faced by mankind."

"Master Experience Ticket Summary: The photographer captured the essence of Alex Weber and completed outstanding work."

"System reward: Photographic inspiration*4, Photographic vision*2."

Chen Pingsheng looked at the system settlement in front of him, and then added the attribute points one by one.

There is no doubt that his photographic vision has also become MAX.

As for photography inspiration, there are still two final points left.

If the speed is fast, it may be achieved by May.

"Will you upgrade?" Chen Pingsheng narrowed his eyes, not knowing what he was thinking.

(End of this chapter)