From the photographer's point of view of film photography, how to learn film photography from overseas works? The unique texture of the film and the personal style of these photographers had a chemical reaction, resulting in one film masterpiece after another.
In many foreign colleges and universities, the film that can be bought in the school store, the development darkroom that can be applied for at any time, the old film machine that can be rented in the school, and the required film courses all drive the photographer to further understand the film. However, with the upgrading of various digital cameras and smart phones, the film has gradually faded from the hands of the public.
However, I don't know when the film has quietly returned to the public view. With the gradual increase of the usage rate of films with low production, the price of ordinary 135 films has soared from 20+to 50+. What on earth is the gradual revival of film?
In fact, it is not hard to predict that with the advent of the retro trend, Y2K's elements will revive, just like the ccd camera has turned over again, Reheating of film cameras can also be understood. The unique noise and noise in the film make the photos under the film have their own retro filters.
Golden Kodak film straight out
Many people think that the color of film can not be replaced by digital. Plus the cost of pressing the shutter every time due to the price increase of film, people have to be cautious and think about how to make every "banknote".
But at the same time, the film also has a pleasant feeling of "scratch". The difference between the same "scratch music" and the film maker is that the film maker can see the whole film immediately after shooting, while the film maker has to wait until a roll of film is shot, go to the darkroom to use liquid medicine to develop it, and then see your whole film through the scanner. Only then can we see Does this film bring you disappointment or joy.
Waste film with insufficient light Accidental light leakage filter
In fact, these can only be regarded as one of the factors of film renaissance. But the biggest The "culprits" of film renaissance can be said to be the works of those film photographers who make people shine. The unique texture of the film and the personal style of these photographers had a chemical reaction, resulting in one film masterpiece after another.
Hamada's fresh Japanese blue
Yingming Hamada, a photographer from Japan. His most commonly used medium frame film camera, Pentax 76, always captures the fresh essence of Japanese films. It can be seen that most of the films taken by Hamada Yingming are full of blue, which many people call blue Hamada Yingming Blue 。
Photo by Hamada Yingming
Landscape in Hamada's hands
Hamada is really good at grasping the freshness of the Japanese system. Whether it's the sea, the sky, the mountains, or the grass, you can always capture the unique clean feeling of Hamada Yingming. There is no bright color, no high saturation, and the natural fresh feeling, Many people have been trying to find out the parameters of Hamada's sense of wisdom.
Photo by Hamada Yingming
Portrait in Hamada Yingming's hands
Mention Hamada Yingming, it is impossible not to mention his portrait. Artists such as SHE, Mayday, Wang Zhenlin, Sedo Lishu, Komatsu Cainai, etc. have all appeared in his films.
Photo by Hamada Yingming
Many people try to call out the parameters of the Japanese landscape of Akira Hamada, but they can't be applied to the portrait of Akira Hamada. In the unique clear portrait of Hamada Yingming, everyone's skin wants to be light and clean.
Such low saturation, high brightness, but no lack of contrast . Under normal high brightness, photos with low contrast will appear very floating. In fact, it is not difficult to analyze the photos in his hands with parameters to find that the bright parts of Hamada Yingming are blue, and the contrast pressure is very appropriate, so the whole picture looks very bright. This is also the power of Hamada Yingming.
Hamada Yingming's childhood
Mention Hamada's film, we have to mention his son series. He often used film to record the life of his two sons. Each film tells the story of childhood.
Photo by Hamada
This group was also shot with Pentax 67. Throw away the unique expressiveness of models and the vitality of children themselves, it is enough to make the picture beautiful. Every film recording their sons' childhood, including color, composition and relaxed atmosphere, describes happy childhood stories. I wonder how many children photographers will be inspired by this series?
Photo by Yingming Hamada
Emotional film of film photographer
If Japanese fresh wind can express a relaxed atmosphere, Jihoon Yang's emotional films can express the opposite emotional atmosphere. Different from Hamada's low saturation, Jihoon Yang's emotional films are mostly highly saturated, and the control of light is also his inspiration.
Jihoon Yang's warm and cold light
Photo by Jihoon Yang
Jihoon Yang likes to shoot with the 400&800 and cinestill800t film of the turret, He prefers to use cold light to shape emotions, but also uses warm light to tell stories. This kind of light can always bring people into Hong Kong films in the 1980s and 1990s.
Jihoon Yang's facial light
Photo by Jihoon Yang
In Jihoon Yang's works, there are many dark scenes to express low mood Put a warm light on the face of the model, and focus all eyes on the emotion of the model, A look is telling a story.
Natural light of Jihoon Yang
Photo by Jihoon Yang
Which photographer doesn't love natural light! but Jihoon Yang can also use natural light to describe the story. The soft backlight hitting the couple seems to be a screenshot in a romantic movie. A beam of hard light hit the boundary of the face straightly. Although the exposure swallowed up the details of the face, the whole film became strong.
photo by Jihoon Yang
More and more expensive films need to be taken carefully and carefully. It is not so easy to take good film. To obtain satisfactory photos, you need to do it yourself from shooting to developing. But in this fast-paced era, "slow" film can actually let you experience many different beauties.
In fact, whether it is Hamada Yingming's fresh Japanese films or Jihoon Yang's emotional atmosphere films, they are all ways to record a moment. Each photo is an interpretation of the photographer's thoughts and emotions. Because these excellent photographers use film in place, people will continue to learn their color, composition and even the use of film.
The uncertainty caused by over reliance on digital wireless shutter number or film should not appear on an independent photographer. If you can get the effect you want in digital and film, When practicing, you should think more about composition, light, light and dark parts. I believe that no matter what kind of machine you hold, you can express your emotions.
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