​How to make your photos stand out by sense of form

How to make your photos stand out by sense of form

What is the sense of form? Photo editors to face every day hundreds of thousands of photos, and then choose the best published released, so the editing work is described as do subtraction. Many times the editors to do the judges of the photography contest, more then to browse photos, it is not too much to say thousands, time tight task, over time, the editors have cultivated a pair of critical, photo efficiency is more and more high. I have done an experiment, the selection of watching a page 20 photo in less than four seconds, that is to say for a second look at five pictures, because each figure is usually compressed into small pictures and edit or judges after he found himself interested in work will open a larger view observe carefully, judge whether it is a good work.

So in the face of tens of thousands of entries, can instantly attracted the judge’s eye is what? In addition to the content itself, is the formal feeling! You may listen to the word, but always feel alienated, so what is the sense of form? Form of works of art is used to express a skill and method, different forms of art has its own unique set of rules. Music is with the help of the notes create melody, in the form of dance is of choose and employ persons, in the form of body language the image of the shape change. And photography is mainly expressed in terms of the peculiar to the language to use photography, with the help of picture composition, light, tone, color, lines and quality, and many other elements, create aesthetic value can be accepted by many the viewer and one way to get aesthetic pleasure. The relationship between content and form of art, closely, interdependence, mutual the shoulder shape functions work. The form, the formal is the key content of sublimation. Here will bring you some ways to enhance the sense of form.

1. The racial composition

Radiation composition for the light to show a strong visual impact also let a person do not consciously moving sight to radiation center. Radiation composition to implement in other objects, such as clouds, trees will produce a feeling of comfortable spread open, but radiation composition is not easy to master, there is a premise is the radiation center must be overwhelming visual appeal, or you will make the whole picture. In addition, find spread radially object should have a certain capability, need long time observation and practice: spider webs, fireworks, abortion, leaves, and buildings, the texture and so on can be a radiation on the wall. Looking for radial light, can be in the morning the sun shining under the woods looking for through the leaves, or wait for the sun under the setting sun through from the clouds, but plan ahead, because both the duration of the light will not very long.

2. Add a human element

The most curious concerned about most is the mankind itself, and photographing people is the most challenging, the human world is so complicated, pleasure and pain, rich and poor, happiness and cruel, anyhow is full of contradictions. To shoot a good work on the mind can have a huge shock and resonance. How to express in the limited time and space characters and elusive rich feelings is very not easy, so most of the photography masters are all kinds of characters. At the same time, the human element is added in the landscape photography, if used properly, will be for the whole work graces many, even to achieve quality, become a punch line. But note that the character must together with environment, namely take tone.

3. Large color space

Reasonable layout of large area has a color space will increase the impact of the works and strongly appeal, to help improve the degree of recognition of his work. Large area of color piece simplifies the picture content, make content clear and concise, reduce the interference elements, is conducive to protrude the main body, in a nutshell is the abstraction of reality. Of course this kind of scenario itself is relatively scarce, so don't miss this kind of scene. At this moment in order to be a visual hyperbole, increase of colored area size usually use wide Angle even ultra wide Angle lens, and this kind of lens itself will let the picture becomes open, the superposition to strengthen the work in the form of a better feeling, make your work stand out. But using wide Angle lens is not easy to control, involving a visual elements of too much, too miscellaneous, which requires strong capability, but also has a very detailed project and patience. Only you dare to dare to do, skilled, fisheye lens is just as well.

Mention wide-angle lens or ultra wide Angle lens, you have to mention full format digital camera and the full format the difference between a digital camera. For beginners, to find out the advantages and disadvantages between the two are a little difficult. A frame of a frame is an important advantage of imaging area, full-frame imaging area bigger; this is the size of the sensor.

4. Reflect contradictions

Contrast is divided into a lot of kinds, static with move, slow and fast, clear and bright, large and small, and color contrast on (as shown in the harmony) will make work more attractive. We live in a world full of contradictions, and because of that, our world becomes rich and colorful, everything changes. And conflict is one of the most important means of artistic expression, such as film, drama and the climax of books is usually the conflicts are strongest. Specific to photography itself, contradictions and work out of the ordinary way, without a contrast works will look dull, so want to let their works look good and be able to bear or endure look, make contrast is essential, we should pay attention to conflicts arising in the course of life, exercise their powers of observation, in addition, can also be manufactured. Is black, white, gray, black and white photography, the basic tone of different proportions of black and white and gray tone changes constitute a high tone, middle and low tone, such as different tone, so right in black, white, grey is the key to the black and white, a black and white photos to juggle three right tone level and change the distribution of (high, medium and low), shadow lines and details to better performance, at the same time, the different shades of grey to rich tone level is crucial.

6. Digital darkroom

Some people always sneering at digital post, this let a person very don't understand, even if is a photo of maag will be after post-production darkroom division, its fine degree to mass. Photography is never truly reflect the real world, also do not have this ability, you view, lens aperture, focal length, the flexible use of shutter speed is a reprocessing of reality, so when you take images stored in a digital storage media, has become the subjective image of you, rather than an objective reduction, that you still have what reason to refuse to late? Because when you take pictures, was already in the late of work.

Some people would say, cutting figure will damage the quality of the picture, this is inevitable, and cutting, the more the more he has lost. This is why when taken early is very important. In addition the advantage of the full format cameras in late again, because of its sensitive original size, sensitivity, tolerance and detail record has great advantage, in this way, even if you cut figure, also won't have much of an image to the whole work. In addition, the saturation and levels of adjustment is also very important, because it can make your work more rich and colorful, enhance recognition of the whole picture.

Summary: in fact, take a good work and take a deep thinking, and thinking, not only comes from the accumulation of knowledge at ordinary times, also want to practice more. Many want to see more. Often see the good work, find difference of yourself, I believe you must be able to make good films. Finally a bit of: a good name for the pictures, a good name can not only attract attention, more important is to picture information supplement and echo, have the effect of icing on the cake. You spent a great effort photographed masterpiece, a good name is worth to cost time, why not?