Photographer

Long shutter speed is really an interesting element of the camera.It brings a lot of possibilities to photos.When I helped my friend to do the light project,  we had an idea.Let two camera faced each other's lens and let one camera zoomed during the other camera's shooting process.The final effect looks good but still can be improved. Then luckily I saw Jakob Wagner's Urban zoom series, the idea in this series resembles our idea.But Urban Zoom is let the shooting camera itself zooms during the shooting.And the item is the city scenes.The result in the photos is the lights lines are vey impressive and powerful. It's also depends on the camera's big zooming scope.

Fan Ho is a very famous Chinese photographer in 20 century.His technique on composition，light'n shadow and artistic conception inspire me a lot on how to record people's lifestyle in a city.

Arnold Newman was a American Photographer who is famous on portrait photography.Not just depending on the subjects theirselves, Arnold is good at combining the subject and the background to exhibit their characteristics.Most of his portraits are about the artists or politicians. Igor Stravinsky, composer, pianist, and conductor Aaron Copland, composer, composition teacher, writer,  and conductor Jackson Pollock, painter Isamu Noguchi, artist, and landscape architect Joseph Albers, artist Salvador Dalí, painter In these portraits, Arnold combines the subject and their most typical elements, such as their works, work environments or equipments.So through his photos we can easily get more informations about the subjects.

Still life photography maybe is not what I must to learn, but I did shoot a lot of still life photograph as a personal daily mission.(Though I didn't know they are still life photographs.) When I search on the Internet, I found a lot of pictures are included into still life photography, such as many wallpapers, commercial advertisings or even those photos about the lifeless things. Laurens Kaldeway is a photographer who attracts more on the subject's sense of form. All these pictures are screenshot from Kaldeway's 500px website. In some of his works he tries to create interesting narrative in the subject.He will use many creative ideas to compose those articles in the pictures.Some of his works are just about some simple articles in a little bit special shooting techniques to bring some basic emotions to us.Weak in narrative is a trait of still life photography.The important part is the framing of lines, planes and spaces.Light and colour are ...