FilmAnalysis · 照片背后的故事

柔焦也可以是选择

从照片出发,读一段摄影史。故事和照片之间只是阅读上的联想,不代表照片的作者、相机或实际用的胶卷。

摄影师

卡梅伦拍人像时,常常故意不把焦点对实,也不擦掉划痕和制作留下的痕迹。V&A 把这些看作她的实验。

在当时,这些都算错误。她却保留下来,让人更多注意人物的神情,而不是脸上的每一处细节。

不妨试试

看一张柔和的人像时,先别放大。看人物的眼神、姿态和周围的留白,再回头看细节,问问清晰度有没有帮上忙。照片拍虚了,本身并不会更动人。

「不妨试试」是编辑设计的练习,不是史实。

资料出处

接着读

蕨叶留下自己的轮廓

纪实,也可以很私人

一本书里的彩色照片

故事卡与徽章分开收藏。为照片评分仍按原有规则收集徽章。

FilmAnalysis · Stories behind the frame

Soft focus as a choice

Read a little photographic history. These connections suggest ways to look; they say nothing about authorship, cameras or the physical film stock.

Photographer

Julia Margaret Cameron often left her portraits deliberately out of focus and kept the scratches and marks of her process. The V&A describes these as her experiments.

At the time these counted as mistakes. She kept them, and the viewer attends to a sitter's expression rather than every detail of the face.

Try this

Before enlarging a soft portrait, look at the gaze, the posture and the space around the sitter. Then go back to the detail and ask whether sharpness helps. Blur alone does not make a picture moving.

"Try this" is an exercise written by the editors, not history.

Sources

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