Rebirth of top photographers

Chapter 141 A tough night (Youcai)

In the silent museum, after setting up the lights, Chen Pingsheng picked up the shutter release cable of Linhaft Artifact 45, then stuck his head into the leather cavity behind the fuselage, and looked at the image in the lens through the frosted glass.

"No problem, get ready..." Use the knob in front of the lens to adjust the lens position to ensure there is no problem with the picture.

"3, 2, 1." Then pull out the light barrier to ensure that the film is ready for exposure.

"Crack!"

He pressed the shutter button, then straightened up, inserted the light barrier back into the camera body, and then pulled out the entire film holder, thus completing the photo shoot.

Shooting with a large-format camera is very troublesome. Compared with the 12 pictures of medium-format film and the 36 pictures of full-frame film, large-format can only take a single picture, and changing the film depends on the photographer's hand.

Therefore, photographers have always loved and hated it. People who like it think it is the top of the despise chain. Its delicate picture and huge body represent the pinnacle of the photography industry.

And those who hate it are also put off by its complicated operations, thinking that such a retro gadget is really difficult to use.

But Chen Pingsheng feels that each camera has its own niche, such as photographing museums and landscapes. Nothing is more suitable than a large-format camera.

After taking one picture at this time, he did not continue to take the second picture. Instead, he packed up all the equipment and prepared to leave the museum.

Now it's just a test shoot. Chen Pingsheng and Boss Lin need to develop the photos, and then adjust the subsequent lighting arrangements according to the light, shadow and texture of the picture.

It was a bit troublesome, but in order to ensure the final effect, this was what he had to do.

While waiting for the film to be developed, he started learning English again. He was working harder and more efficiently than when he was in high school, as if he was about to take the IELTS and TOEFL exams.

There were not many customers today, so Boss Lin quickly finished developing the negatives. He found Chen Pingsheng with black and white and slightly slippery photo paper and showed him the samples.

On the photo paper, there is a vast black and white world. A cheetah is squatting in the canyon, looking at the mountains in the distance, as if a hunt is about to happen here.

From a visual point of view, due to the lack of three-dimensional perspective effect, the animal specimens and the hand-painted background form a flat surface and blend into one in the photo.At the same time, it looks lifelike because of the distinct layers of light and shadow.

"So lifelike." Boss Lin sighed. This was the best photo he had developed in the past three days.

Chen Pingsheng also nodded, this was infinitely close to what he felt.

"Right now, the light in the upper right corner is still a little flawed. It's a little overexposed, so I need to raise the angle a bit." He picked up other photos and looked at them carefully for 10 minutes, and concluded that there was a problem.

It looks like the official shooting can begin tomorrow.

However, a phone call interrupted his thoughts.

"Director Zou, what's wrong?" After Chen Pingsheng finished speaking, he slowly frowned as he listened to the voice on the other end of the phone.

"Is there really no way to take pictures during the day?" He walked to the window sill and asked.

Then Chen Pingsheng received a somewhat frustrated reply, and then he sighed: "Well, we can only take pictures after the museum is repaired."

Director Zou's apologetic voice came over the phone.

After responding a few words, and just about to hang up the phone, a new idea suddenly came to his mind.

So Chen Pingsheng asked again: "Director Zou, what if I shoot at night?"

"At night?" Lin Zishan looked surprised.

It was already six o'clock in the evening, and the Xijiao Studio had stopped operating. She and Chen Pingsheng were sitting at the table in the store eating Sichuan takeout. Next to them, Boss Lin was fixing his camera and eating meat with chopsticks.

"That's right, we'll start tomorrow night, so I'm going to get some jet lag today." Chen Pingsheng picked up a chopstick of meat and put it in his mouth. But as soon as he chewed it, he suddenly spat it out with a look of embarrassment on his face.

"Why do these ginger pieces look so similar to meat!" He looked at the ginger pieces that were the same color as the meat and couldn't tell the difference. He took two mouthfuls of rice before suppressing the taste in his mouth.

Director Zou of the South China Museum of Natural History called him this afternoon, saying that the top of the museum needed to be repaired for a week.Although the new exhibition hall does not need to be repaired, it will be fenced off during the day and is not suitable for photography.

After receiving this news, Chen Pingsheng calculated that if it were delayed, it might take until mid-January to take all the photos. Time was already very tight, and the museum would be opening in mid-January, so it would be best to take the photos as soon as possible. of.

Moreover, Chen Pingsheng is a perfectionist. If he wants to take a photo, he must get it consistent with the work in his mind. Therefore, he did not intend to delay any further, so he came up with the idea of ​​shooting at night.

Although Director Zou did not expect Chen Pingsheng to be so insistent on filming as soon as possible, he still agreed to his proposal.

The museum is patrolled and monitored by security guards at night, so Chen Pingsheng only needs to take photos step by step in the exhibition hall. If he feels sleepy, he can sleep in the security room.

Of course, Chen Pingsheng was ready to stay up late and fight.

So he planned to stay up tonight and sleep all day tomorrow.

Lin Zishan said worriedly: "Will you be able to sleep if you do this?"

"I'll drink some coffee at night and take some melatonin tomorrow." Chen Pingsheng picked out diced rabbit meat from a pile of green peppers and put it into his mouth. This is a typical Zigong dish, which emphasizes spicy, fresh, tender and tender meat.

If you were an ordinary Northeastern person, you might not be able to eat such spicy food, but Chen Pingsheng can still eat spicy food. After coming here for so many years, he has developed the habit of eating spicy food.

"I will be the first audience after you finish shooting your work!" Lin Zishan laughed, not expecting that his own home would be the first to appreciate Chen Pingsheng's photos.

"Don't worry, for sure, you can watch it after Uncle Lin washes it." After Chen Pingsheng finished speaking, he looked at Boss Lin and found that he was still repairing the camera and had no intention of talking at all. "That's different. A volume of this kind of work definitely looks best when bound together. Typesetting is also very important!" Lin Zishan said after swallowing the food in his mouth.

"Yeah, but this work doesn't have a theme, so the order doesn't really matter."

"Perspective Gallery" is completely different from "The Crow". The former pays more attention to the blurring of the concepts of truth and falsehood, and the feelings it brings to the audience are very intuitive and easy to understand.

Unlike "The Crow", you have to watch it until the end to understand the photographer's intention.

Of course, they are all very classic works, and they have also played a role in expanding the boundaries of photography.

After dinner, Chen Pingsheng said goodbye to his father and daughter and returned home.

Although he planned to stay up all night, he had not yet decided what he would do.

fitness?Chen Pingsheng thought about it and decided to forget it. Staying up late to exercise really didn't know whether it was a waste of his life or a waste of his life.

learn English?This is not bad, he still has a few coupons that are not used, so he can use them to improve his foreign language skills.

Playing games?It's not impossible. Since September, he has never touched the games on the computer. It seems that they are all very strange memories to him.

After lying on the sofa and thinking for a long time, Chen Pingsheng, who felt sleepy, looked at the clock and found that it was not even ten o'clock in the evening.

"That's not possible." Chen Pingsheng shook his head and simply took out his English book and started studying.

"Tick."

"Tick."

"Tick."

Time moved forward slowly and unswervingly, and the pages of the English book in Chen Pingsheng's hand were turned over and over again. The black coffee placed next to the table was already empty.

As a result, Chen Pingsheng had to go to the toilet a few more times than usual.

Later, Chen Pingsheng, who really couldn't stop learning, started playing games again, but he couldn't get into the game no matter how much he played.

"It's over, I've lost another hobby." Chen Pingsheng lamented, and simply picked up his camera and went out.

The night in the city is really charming, like the skirt of a goddess, stimulating the restless heart of every photographer.The dark red signboard and the warm yellow street lamp together give different color levels to the black color, making it appear dangerous and charming at the same time.

Chen Pingsheng came to the street, put on the gloves given to him by Wang Chengcheng, held the handle of the camera, and felt that his heart suddenly settled down.

He headed towards remote areas.

On the one hand, it's because the dark sky can give him a safe shell, and on the other hand, he likes to think on this road.

Walking alone can best relax a person's tired soul. Chen Pingsheng likes to walk on remote roads or in parks, looking at the surrounding scenery and letting his thoughts wander, thinking about some inexplicable things.

Or sit in the back of a taxi, lean against the glass, and watch the light streak outside.

It will also give him a sense of tranquility from the bottom of his heart.

It's good for inspiring him, like now.

Chen Pingsheng, who didn't know how long he had been walking or where he was, suddenly saw an old-fashioned single-story shopping mall.It has stopped operating. The original orange signboard cannot be seen in its original color under the dim light. Two iron poles stand in the front section, and a simple wooden roof is built in front of the mall, which should be used to shelter from the rain.

There are no other light sources around, only the light strips wrapped around the ceiling emit white light.

Chen Pingsheng felt that this scene was very emotional. If the white light source was adjusted to blue, he would definitely get a good photo.

So he looked around again, trying to find if there were any props.

As a result, I found a trolley that is common in shopping malls, except that one of its wheels was missing and the iron basket was broken and rusty.

But it was just right for the scene in front of him, so Chen Pingsheng immediately moved it over and placed it right in front of the shopping mall.

Then he ran to a distance, squatted down, and raised his camera. When he was about to take a photo, a cat meowed suddenly.

"Meow!"

A black cat jumped out of the shadows, as if heading to the other side of the road, but when it passed the cart, it suddenly stopped and turned its head to look in the direction of the mall.

In just a short moment, the black cat, the cart, and the shopping mall formed a visual straight line in Chen Pingsheng's eyes. He immediately pressed the shutter to save this scene.

"Crack!"

The sound of the shutter disturbed the black cat. It looked at Chen Pingsheng and ran away quickly.

But Chen Pingsheng was already satisfied. Looking at the photos he took, he couldn't help but boast: "Absolutely amazing."

(End of this chapter)