Nine-tiered fairy lotus

Chapter 49: Catching Big Fish and Understanding Photography

The fish seemed to be playing hide-and-seek with Hu Tu, passing his hands several times in a row, which made him very frustrated.

Just at this moment, a group of unnamed yellow birds flew across the sky, attracting Wang Pinqiu's attention.

Taibai Lake and its surrounding shallow water wetlands are rich in bird resources, including oriental white storks, whooper swans, cygnets, Sinian crows, lesser cuckoos, jacanas, and black-winged kites. About 200 species have been recorded Birds are an area with a very high-quality ecological environment near the urban area.

The autumn wind is strong and the waves are wrinkled. It is the season when the northern birds fly south.From time to time, groups of birds can be seen flying from the surrounding woods, wetlands, or from the water surface of Taibai Lake. People call this kind of bird that transits during the round-trip migration "traveling bird".

Wang Pinqiu raised his camera, aimed at the distant water surface, and followed the flock of birds to point to the sky from time to time.Her expression is very serious, very similar to Hu Tu's appearance when he was carving. At this time, people, both male and female, are very attractive. If a person is very beautiful, it is simply a temptation.

Hu Tu raised his head and watched, his saliva almost flowed out. When she shook his head when she took an unsatisfactory photo, he realized his embarrassment, looked around like a thief, and muttered: "To catch fish, you must I want to catch a big fish, otherwise I would be too shameful if I blew the cowhide so loudly before."

He took a deep breath, concentrated, recalled the feeling of catching fish before, and calmed himself down.

Although his skills are not very good, he still has a certain amount of experience. He couldn't catch fish before, and what he lacked was mainly his mood.Now that his mood has been adjusted, he naturally has a greater chance of catching fish.

After a while he caught two fish, but unfortunately both were too small, one was the size of a palm and the other was only the size of a thumb.

After Wang Pinqiu saw it, he nodded with satisfaction, but said: "Let's release them, they are too small to eat in one bite." She took a picture of him releasing the fish, but unfortunately she was not satisfied, "These few days The picture is not good, if you like it, I will send it to you another day, but you are not allowed to tell others that I took the picture."

Hu Tu didn't quite understand her thoughts, but he still agreed.

Wang Pinqiu explained: "It's like when you carve nuclear carvings, your level is not bad, and then some novices promote their works in your name. People who don't know it will see that the quality of the things you make is so poor. Think about it, is your work still worth money?"

With such an analogy, Hu Tu understood.He nodded like a chicken pecking at rice, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that those words made sense, and he admired her even more.He asked expectantly: "Do you really think my carving skills are good?"

Wang Pinqiu replied without hesitation: "That's just a metaphor." Her words hit Hu Tu's heart hard, but this was not her purpose, so she glanced at Hu Tu's eyes and added, "I'm The standard of good is set very high. If you look at it according to the standards of ordinary people, it is actually not bad, otherwise Qiu Yu would not have paid for it.”

She spoke vaguely, and Hu Tu was also confused, unable to figure out whether it was good or not.After thinking about it, I blamed the problem on not catching a big fish, "If I can catch a big fish, maybe it will impress her."

He sank his consciousness into the space of the lotus platform, and caught a fish with his unique method.The fish was the length of four apples, enough for two or three people to eat, and it would be perfect if it was paired with something else.

Then he put his hands into the water, his eyes drifted, and he looked around from time to time, especially paying attention to Wang Pinqiu's sight.He's going to find a moment when no one is paying attention and get the fish out.That way he can declare he's caught a big fish, fulfilling his blown hide.

Although Wang Pinqiu was concentrating on taking pictures and there was no one around, his heart was still beating extremely fast.A group of wild geese flew past, attracting Wang Pinqiu's full attention, "This is the time." He thought, took the fish out of the space, and the colorful lotus whiskers flashed away in his palm, and a fish appeared out of thin air. In his hands, smiling, he grabbed the fish hard and brought it out of the water.

The fish was very powerful and kept struggling in his hands. Wang Pinqiu noticed him, turned his head, and said in surprise, "You really caught it. It's such a big fish." She took a picture with the camera in her arms. Shaking his head slightly, he seemed dissatisfied with those photos, and said, "I'll buy something else later, and when Qiu Yu and the others come, we can have a picnic."

"Okay!" Hu Tu wiped his forehead guiltily, there was sweat from his guilt, he thought to himself that it was lucky that she didn't notice his little move.Usually he rarely sweats, but this time when he got the fish, he subconsciously retracted the lotus whiskers, so he didn't absorb the sweat.Then he changed the subject, "I see you are shaking your head, isn't it a good shot?"

"Not so good!" Wang Pinqiu said truthfully, "The main reason is that you hold the fish, but it doesn't fit the image of a fisherman, so it's not so good." She has her own theory of taking photos. Under Hu Tu's questioning, she Explained, "Anyone can hold a fish, why should others look at you? Are you handsome? Are you a star? You have no characteristics, and neither do fish, so your combination is a pure record, yes A journal cannot be called photography.”

She briefly talked about some theories of photography: "The master of documentary photography, Henri Cartier-Bresson, put forward the theory of 'decisive moment', which is to press the shutter when the subject is in the most characteristic and meaningful moment. The understanding of the essence of photography has been deepened from the level of form to the level of time. Therefore, for the scenery and things that everyone is accustomed to, the most special places in it can be counted as good."

Hu Tu was confused again. Fortunately, all arts are common, so it was easy for him to understand the five words "decisive moment" from the angle of sculpture.

Sculpture and photography are both static frames, so they have their own special and meaningful images.Sculpture is to express this kind of specialness, and even expresses the pictures that have undergone artistic evolution that do not exist in real life, creating a visible and palpable artistic image with a certain space, so as to reflect social life and express the artist's aesthetics. The art of feeling, aesthetic emotion, and aesthetic ideal.

Thinking of this, Hu Tu became interested in photography. He licked his lips and said, "Pin Qiu, can you teach me photography?"

To Hu Tu's surprise, Wang Pinqiu refused directly, and she said: "Che, I advise you not to fish for three days and dry the net for two days, but to finish your carving first! Otherwise, it's easy to learn to walk, and you can't learn it." You can take photography, but you can’t do sculpture well.” Then she made another suggestion, “Painting is the foundation of visual art. If you really want to learn photography or improve your sculpture skills, you can start by learning painting well.”

(End of this chapter)