Introduction: Photography is like students learning to write essays. In a well-written article, if there are occasional golden sentences, then it is generally considered a masterpiece. In the following lessons, we will work together to find these "golden sentences" and think about how to make your works more moving.

The reason why such photos are attractive is that people are always interested in "surreal" scenes, and stopping time is originally a "surreal" thing. In reality, Liu Xiang Swinging smooth steps, he steadily crossed one railing after another, and the camera can freeze the moment when his legs jumped over the railing (like a floating and surreal scene), making you stare at it for a long time (but in reality, your The naked eye cannot stare at this frozen scene) In reality, you will see the waves rolling and rushing, and the camera can freeze the scene of the waves rising high and send it to your eyes, while "common sense" will The scene of the waves falling and rolling up is played out over and over again in your mind. The "dynamic scene" in your mind and the "static freeze frame" on the photo in front of you create a sharp contrast and see-saw. As a result, the "stillness" becomes particularly prominent, and time The feeling of stillness will also arise in your heart.

In fact, this is an image illusion created by using the readers’ common sense of life, thus bringing about the illusion that time has stood still. Let's look at a few examples.

1. This is a scene of soup dripping from a spoon. It is a dynamic picture. When looking at this picture, readers often imagine a fantasy scene of dynamically flowing soup in their minds. But in the reality of the picture in front of me, everything is stagnant and silent (there is no sound of dripping soup). In this contrast between illusion and fact, the feeling of stillness is particularly prominent. (You can look at the picture and ask yourself whether the dynamic scene of dripping soup emerges in your mind, just like the scene you saw every time you drank soup since you were a child)

2. Yes As an example above, these pictures require no further explanation. Same thing.

3. After looking at the water column, let’s look at another dynamic picture that is common on the dining table. The rising smoke. In everyone's common sense, smoke is always fleeting and fleeting. So when looking at the next two pictures, the illusion of smoke swinging and rising will unconsciously occur in the mind. This illusion and the fact that the picture is still are tug-of-war. During the tug-of-war, the sense of stillness in time is particularly prominent.

Today’s keyword: a sense of stillness

To capture those dynamic, fleeting pictures, and then use the illusion generated by the reader’s familiarity with these pictures to give the reader Creates the illusion that time stands still.

Today’s content is relatively abstract, in order to allow everyone to understand it better. Let’s use a simpler expression. As you can see, the objects used in today’s example are liquid (soup, milk) and gas (water vapor). Let’s think about it again, can “stopping time” also be called “freezing time”?

Looking closely at the word “solidification”, we can simply understand it as, letting liquids and gases It looks solid in the picture. Liquids and gases are often unstable and constantly changing, while solids are stationary and can be seen and touched. In reality, we cannot do the so-called "solidification" with the naked eye, but with the help of a camera, we can easily solidify milk, solidify oil fumes, solidify streams, and solidify flames. In this process, you have completed the process of solidifying. The freezing of time.