How about going abroad to study photography ？ What to pay attention to when studying abroad in photography ？ What should I do if I have no inspiration ? Come and listen to her, Miss Daisy Dai, natural light Training guide of photography professional works Division, Master of Photography, New York Film Academy , Yes Pure art photography, documentary photography, film stills She used to be the news editor of HCTV, a Chinese satellite TV in Hollywood. She filmed and used Hong Lei, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, for many times. Her works have been published in the Los Angeles Times and other major American paper media. Now, she is in the natural light Photography Collection Bring the most powerful guarantee! Let's take a look at the questions she answers for you.
What is the most important thing about professional photography?
Teacher Daisy: "For our professional photographers, our ideas are the most important Commercial Photography If so, the equipment may be more useful. The higher the price, the better; But for Pure Art Photography When you have something to express, the idea is more important.
Pure Art Photography Works of Teacher Daisy
As Teacher Daisy said, Study abroad Master of Photography According to the professional and curriculum settings of European and American universities, the field of photography can also be divided into the following three main directions: Commercial photography, documentary photography, pure art photography 。
Commercial photography example, Sarah Moon's fashion works
Example of documentary photography, Robert Doisneau's social documentary works
As an example of pure art photography, Yinggong Hosoe shot "The Punishment of Roses" for Yukio Mishima
Studying abroad in commercial photography : Photography mainly for commercial purposes, such as product photography, publicity photography, advertising photography, fashion photography, etc. Commercial photography involves a lot of human factors, lots of studio photography, and high requirements for equipment, lighting and other hard conditions.
Fashion photography can be classified into this category. However, because of the unique market demand, shooting techniques, theories and application skills of fashion photography, most colleges and universities will set up this major separately. Parsons School of Design, SVA New York School of Visual Arts, FIT New York Fashion School, LCF London Fashion School, CSM Central Saint Martin School of Art and Design All majors in fashion photography.
Documentary photography, news photography : Photography with recording as its main function can be divided into news documentary, social documentary, psychological documentary, etc. Contrary to commercial photography, documentary and news photography do not have human factors, but objective records, or social phenomena and features, or news events and trends, all of which are based on true records.
British LCC London School of Communication, University of Westminster There are separate documentary photography and news photography majors, while Goldsmiths has photography and urban culture majors.
Pure Art Photography : Photography works in the direction of pure art can not only have the occasional nature of news and documentary, but also have the artificial nature of business. Different from the display and recording of the former two, pure art photography pays more attention to expression and creativity. It is to show your artistic philosophy and creativity by means of photography. It is a creative form of visual direction.
RISD Rhode Island School of Design, RCA Royal College of Art Photography There are directions for pure art to choose from. In terms of equipment, pure art is the most open. Film digital Polaroid, medium and large pictures, and even wet plate photography can be used as expressions of pure art photography.
How to choose a camera for photography majors to study abroad?
Teacher Daisy: "In fact, some photographers do not only use digital SLRs, they may use some relatively primitive film cameras, similar to some medium or large frame cameras, and some 35mm cameras are also useful.".
For students who are exposed to photography, the camera does not need to be a point of special attention, but rather to focus on their own thoughts, depth and level.
As Teacher Daisy said, good ideas are not limited by equipment. Except for some commercial works that have more professional requirements for equipment, other photography directions have greater flexibility in equipment. What are the camera options? The following recommendations are for reference only.
Below 500 yuan:
Fool film machine: Ricoh XF-30D with good quality, Dongfang EF35, Olympus zoom 105, Nikon AF3;
500-1000 yuan:
Entry level film SLR: Ricoh KR10, Pentax K2;
Entry Polaroid: Polaroid 790, Polaroid 636, Polaroid organ machine 101, Polaroid onestep2, Minolta Spectra;
1000 yuan - 5000 yuan:
Digital cameras: Sony Black Card, Canon g7x mark ii, Ricoh GR2, Canon 200d, Canon 700D, Nikon D5300;
Film camera: Nikon F3, Cannon AE1, Lulai 35S, Minolta TC1;
RMB 5000 - 10000:
Digital camera: Canon 6D, Canon 500D (18-200mm), Sony A7ii;
Film camera: Hasu 503CM, Makina67;
What should I do if I have no inspiration for the creation of photography works?
Teacher Daisy: "I would suggest that you read more works of famous foreign photographers and find your own direction, because many students don't know what their direction is before they get started. So in many cases, it is only after seeing what others have done that we can give you some inspiration, some inspiration, rather than focusing on the professional equipment, such as how good a lens I want, how big a camera I want, photography is not like this ".
Teacher Daisy's fashion photography works
Collection of creative photography When there is no inspiration, try the method of "standing on the shoulders of giants to find inspiration" of teacher Daisy, and see more works of domestic and foreign photographers, so as to clearly define your own photography direction.
Some photographers recommend:
UK: Michael kenna, Felice Beato, George Roger;
America: Anne Leibowitz, Sarah Moon, Guy Bourdin, Diane Arbus, Saul Leiter, Ansel Adams;
Japan: Hideki Hosoe, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Jixin Shinoyama, Ryoko Kawauchi, Shihua Kurokawa, Taibo Ishihara, Yoshihiko Ueda;
Europe: Koudeka, Josef Sudek, Robert Doisneau, Henri Cartier Bresson, Maklub;
Some photographers' works in the recommended list
Photography What are the employment directions for studying abroad?
Daisy: "For example, news photography is one aspect, documentary photography, commercial photography (such as fashion direction), and pure art photography. These aspects now have good employment prospects in China".
Business, news and documentary, pure art, the three modes of employment direction is completely different, engaged in different industries.
If you choose commercial photography, you may work in the production department of a large advertising company, or be an independent photographer undertaking commercial advertising, or directly establish cooperation with stars, companies, etc. If the direction of news and documentary is selected, it is possible to engage in news picture shooting and visual recording related to new media and traditional paper media in television stations and newspaper offices. Pure art photography can make profits by visual art auction.
For photography majors studying abroad, Daisy's suggestions are as follows:
1. Read more masters' works, clarify your own direction and preferences, and determine whether you want to learn commercial photography, documentary photography, or pure art photography. These three kinds of shooting contents are different, and the future employment direction is also different.
2. If it is not a business direction, don't get too tangled in equipment, and focus on how to express ideas visually.
Natural light recommends photography for studying abroad:
A collection of professional photography works, a Japanese photography artist, who is "a man who becomes a camera"
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