Eyes, the window of heart

In China, there is a quote "眼睛是心灵之窗", if translate to English, is 'eyes are the window of heart'. I don't whether English has some kind similar quote. Eyes as the window to show people's feeling truly. Eyes does not lie. So, I find out in portrait photo, eyes is very important part. it not only show people's characteristics, also the emotional. A portrait without a pair of vital eyes is failure even how successful of the colour, the background and so on. The eyes are the way to contact with the audience.

The photo above is a black-and- white portrait, I found it in a unknown black-and-white album in internet. The first place attract me in this photo is his big eyes. I not sure the background and the culture of this photo. When I seen his eyes, I feeling helpless. however, there is not tear in his face, the information he send to us using his eyes is 'cry of help'.

one more good photo

Jay Maisel

Jay Maisel is American colour photographer, he like use the natural light. I love this photo because of it looks good. the reflection of the bird and the building is great. and the lighting is also clear. the bird become silhouette. the bird silhouette standing in colourful background with reflection shadow. It makes the photo looks like painting.

   more photo for Jay Maisel

Movement of Hair

 Aperture f: 5.6

Shutter speed: 1/125

IOS: 200

Aperture f: 9.0

Shutter speed: 1/125

IOS: 125

Aperture f: 9

Shutter speed: 1/200

IOS: 125

I always think hair is good material for photography. Those photo took in my friend's studio last two week. The model has long hair that could make different kind of shape. The hair could make elegance movement and emotion. In this three images. The hair movement shows happiness, mystery, and quite.

Story Images

Aperture f: 32

Shutter speed: 1/15

IOS: 100

Aperture f: 32

Shutter speed: 1/15

IOS: 100

In my opinion, a successful photo should has the element of emotion, which mean telling people a story. However, those two photos use a lot photoshop, but I am not going to talk about the photography technique. The emotional of the photo is important. a good can tell people a story. The images above might not good photos with great photography technique, but with good emotion. Good emotional could attract people. For example, the images above have strong emotion, and show people in the photo have story. It can give many different name for those image. destroy, sadness, lonely, missing, violent, and so on.

My Favourite Colours

Aperture f: 3.5

Shutter speed: 1/320

IOS: 400

Aperture f: 4

Shutter speed: 1/60

IOS: 200

This two are shadow depth of field. In the first image, the main object is the middle line postcard. It is easy to see the area around the middle is fuzzy. The second image is two drink. The one close the camera is more clear than the one in the back. the colour in this image is good. green and blue, which are my favourite colours. those two colour symbols nature and relax. they are cool colours, it is best colours for people who are love summer. because when people see green and blue, they would clam down and feel peaceful. 

Impression of black and white photography

All photography was originally monochrome, most of these photographs were black-and-white. Most forms of visual technology start out in black and white, then slowly evolve into color as technology progresses. Even after color film was readily available, black-and-white photography continued to dominate for decades, due to its lower cost and its “classic” photographic look.

black-and-white photography could shows the lighting and the shadow clearly, it is very emotional and attract people's eyes.