Chapter 268: Of course you have to tread water

The idea was completely sent out, and now they couldn't bring out Chen Xing, and there was no way. Besides, there is no point in completely copying one's own work.

If you want to improve, it is better to take a look at the works of Jiangnan Ancient Town that you have taken during this time, start from the imitation style, and step by step out of your own style, which is the advanced route of normal photographers.

Thinking of this, Chen Xing suddenly laughed twice. I haven't experienced this period at all, so I saved a lot of time.

Then he didn't care about his account, and swiped the recently updated dance area anchors. The female anchors of the recent beep station are getting more and more involved, and even a lot of music grandma masters are dancing now.

That's a good thing...... The next day. Today's appointment is in the morning, so Chen Xing doesn't have time to watch videos in the room, so he walks towards the art center with a backpack of lenses.

A backpack is a bit exaggerated, but there are actually only three. The Hasselblad lens mount is different from Sony's, so Chen Xing left all the previous lenses at home and purchased a new set of Hasselblad XCD lenses, with focal lengths covering 21, 65, 80, of which the ultra-wide angle of 21 is basically not used in portrait photography, which was specially purchased by Chen Xing for the landscape.

After all, he is a traveler, and he always has to take some scenic pictures. Even if there is no masterpiece at the moment, the lens cannot be missing.

But it's just right to use today, Chen Xing wants to shoot a blockbuster-style creative work for them, and he has thought about the effect, which will definitely attract the attention of foreign veterans.

65 and 80 are the most commonly used by Chen Xing in commercial photography and daily photography. Why are there all fixed focuses and none of them zooms?

Joke! Hasselblad lenses are super expensive! How much does it cost for Sony to buy three good prime primers for commercial photography, and then a 24-105 for travel shooting?

Chen Xing's A7M3 is these lenses, which add up to the cost of an 80mm/f1.9 prime lens from Hasselblad.

So Chen Xing really can't afford it now. Since the school holidays, Chen Xing has very few opportunities to make money, and if he is not short of money, who doesn't want a zoom lens.

Without further ado, Chen Xing had already arrived at the art center with his bag on his back. Today's weather is very good, but it has nothing to do with the inside of the theater, as soon as you close the door, it is basically dark if you don't turn on any lights inside.

At this moment, there are many people sitting in the front row of seats in the hall. Chairman Wang and Ning Junping, whom I met yesterday, are here.

"Xiao Chen, are you here?"

"Teacher Chen, good morning." Chen Xing also greeted them and said, "Good morning." "Calling a teacher in China is a kind of custom, Chen Xing was not used to it before, but gradually adapted to others calling him so.

How else to do it? There are so many people in the crew, and not everyone dares to call him Xiao Chen. Some of the dancers who have done their makeup also rest here.

They came early to put on makeup. Ning Junping saw that Chen Xing had also arrived, so he said to others: "Go and urge, the photographers have arrived, how long will their makeup last?" Chen Xing hurriedly said, "It's okay, I can take a close-up of them first." ”

"That's fine!" Chen Xing nodded to a few curious girls. No, it can't be said that it is a girl, Daji is not as feminine as them.

"Zhaojun Out of the Stopper" was already a choreographed dance a few years ago, but after all, it is an international tour, and the China Song and Dance Theater still sent a relatively strong cast, not only Tang Shiyi, who is as famous as some stars in the entertainment industry, but also Hao Ruoqi, Zhang Di and so on.

Whether it is appearance or figure, it crushes many modern female idols. Of course, there are more young female dancers, but they wake up a little late and are still doing makeup backstage.

Classical dance looks are a little more complex and delicate than modern makeup, but the dressing room at the Culture and Arts Center is only that big.

Of course, those who came early quickly finished their makeup, and those who came later could only wait slowly.

"Beauties, I didn't get to know each other well yesterday, today I will introduce myself first, contemptible Chen Xing, he is very young at the moment, he has never been married, if you have sisters who want to get rid of the single, you can introduce them to me...... Of course, it's okay to exchange contact information with me privately ......"

"Hahaha!" Many beauties laughed, the hairpin on their heads shook and shook, only a few middle-aged and old men frowned, why is this person a little unreliable?

Is it better for the photographer to be humorous or rigid? Of course, it's good to be humorous, you have to show your relaxed attitude in front of the guests, so that the person being photographed is not so nervous.

After all, nervousness is a taboo in shooting, and the model can't relax, so Chen Xing's group of photos today will be difficult to take.

And don't worry about whether the joke will be excessive. A group of girls are together, and a strong sense of security not only does not make them afraid of Chen Xing, but also wants to tease him.

The lighting on the theater stage is very complete, even if it is not professional equipment, but it can achieve the effect that Chen Xing wants, so his close-up shot of the leading actor was quickly completed, and the time came to eleven o'clock at this time.

"When will the group photos be taken?" Ning Junping asked. Chen Xing said: "It's four or five o'clock in the afternoon, it's enough, but I'm not going to shoot here." Can you find a car? Let's go to Zhouzhuang. "Zhouzhuang is an ancient town in Suzhou, just a thirty-minute drive from where they are.

If you don't come to Jiangnan once, it is estimated that it is difficult to imagine how dense the ancient towns in Jiangnan are, not to mention the famous ancient towns such as Wuzhen Tongli and Xitang, there are two ancient towns that can be reached within 30 minutes by Chen Xing's side.

One of them is Zhouzhuang. The reputation here is not low, it belongs to one of the six ancient towns in the south of the Yangtze River, and is also known as the first water town in the south of the Yangtze River.

When he came to Jiangnan, Chen Xing was given this place, and the key words that Chen Xing remembered were the word water town, and he could name it after water in a place like Jiangnan, so you can imagine how authentic the water town scenery here should be.

He had also checked, and there was a place where the stream was shallow and had just submerged his ankles. Therefore, this is the most ideal shooting location for Chen Xing.

How exactly should I shoot, let's go over and see it later. President Wang and Chen Xing were chatting about what to eat at noon, and on the other side, a group of girls were also discussing the works that Chen Xing had taken in the morning.

After coming here in the morning to take a photo, Chen Xing made some adjustments to the parameters of the camera, so that a photo in jpg format was displayed in front of their eyes in a straight way.

In their opinion, these photos are no different from the promotional photos that many photographers have retouched.

"He's amazing!"

"Oh, you know all this?"

"Did you ask him for WeChat just now?"

"Do you have one?"

"Nope!"

"I don't dare, let's go." Several of the leading actors said. The more the young, the girls who just joined the dance troupe chatted, the more excited they became, in addition to Chen Xing, there was also his shooting skills, they rarely saw someone who could adjust such a beautiful style on the spot, and they didn't need to do post-production?

I decided to go eat seafood at noon. Wu Jiang is the home of President Wang, so he is naturally Zhang Luo, Chen Xing sat in the audience for a while, and sent an emoji to a few sisters who had just been added on WeChat.

Then he put away his phone and walked over to the girl and said, "There's still some time, I'll take two pictures of you too, right?" "It's a waste of time not to take pictures now, and Chen Xing doesn't want to waste so many high-quality models.

Not a single ugly one. When Chen Xing walked towards them, it was a bit like entering the daughter country...... However, they were now dressed more like the fairy fairies of Pansi Cave, and their costumes were all golden, revealing their arms, shoulders, and a small piece of their back.

"Thank you!" They had long been greedy, but they didn't dare to take the initiative to come over to disturb Chen Xing, and it was exactly what they wanted to be raised by Chen Xing himself at this moment.

I have a photo of myself, even if I can't use it this time, I can take it back and hang it on the wall. What dancer doesn't have an artistic photo of a well-known photographer at home?

Now is a great opportunity. Chen Xing was instantly surrounded by the stars holding the moon.

"Come one by one, don't worry." Now these are all taken casually, and there is no need to leave them for repair at night, so Chen Xing shoots very casually and quickly.

His preset parameters are very suitable for the lighting on the scene, and any pose the actors pose will produce beautiful close-up photos.

I have to say that a professional is a professional. These dancers definitely do not lose the sense of camera to those movie stars, and they can also let go in front of the camera, Chen Xing said that it was a little difficult, and one of the girls who looked young gave Chen Xing a word horse that was erected in the air on the spot.

"It's gone!" Chen Xing said with greed and reminder.

"What are you afraid of in your pants!"

"Teacher Chen, are you shy?"

"......" President Wang's sudden appearance made Chen Xing break free from his daughter's country, and he said, "Let's go, Donghu Hotel, I have set a location." Chen Xing went over and asked, "Where did Mr. Ning go?" ”

"Go to the Dance Association to contact the bus, do you really want to go to Zhouzhuang to shoot in the afternoon? Is it okay for me to bring a few actresses? "The art and cultural center itself is also cultivating Yue Opera actors, and President Wang mainly wants to let this group of little girls get more familiar with the seniors of the China Song and Dance Theater, in case they have the opportunity to go to the China Song and Dance Theater in the future, it will also be their fate.

Especially Tang Shiyi, now Tang Shiyi has gradually gone behind the scenes, and most of them will be one of the leaders of the China Song and Dance Theater in the future.

"You don't have to ask me, President Wang, you can do whatever you want." Two private rooms, four tables, and then everyone was seated.

There are a lot of good things on the table, shrimp and crabs are low-end, for Suzhou people, today's most high-end food should be regarded as hairy crabs, and there are still very few mature crabs today, but this restaurant still gets a big plate.

President Wang said: "We Suzhou people generally pay attention to not eating from time to time, that is, we do not eat crabs during the crab growth season. This restaurant is not bad, and it is possible to find so many mature female crabs. ”

"Come on, Xiao Chen, you have worked hard today, this is the biggest one for you." Chen Xing took it after a few polite words.

Europeans don't eat river crabs, but this steamed hairy crab has the kind of fragrance that sea crabs do not have after opening the shell, and there are a lot of crab roe, not only not fishy, but also with a sweet taste, which tastes very good.

Chen Xing ate a lot, and then realized that the seafood on the table hadn't moved much, and a group of people were eating clear things.

"You eat too."

"Alas, gout......"

"......" Chen Xing ate very happily at this meal, Chen Xing ate half of the hairy crab on a plate, and the crab roe of the female crab is really much.

After eating and resting until two o'clock, everyone went downstairs to get on a tourist bus and drove towards Zhouzhuang.

Chen Xing was resting in the car with his eyes closed, and Tang Shiyi shouted at Chen Xing from the back position: "Teacher Chen, they asked you when you were going to shoot." ”

"It's at least half past four, what's wrong?"

"Then can we change into casual clothes first, we don't dare to go out to play in this outfit." Chen Xing smiled and said, "Haha, of course you can." "The makeup artist has a black face.

Wouldn't it be nice to go out and play in the car when it's so hot? If the makeup is spent, she will still be the one who will work hard at that time.

There were also two people from the Suzhou Art Association in the car, who were found by Ning Junping, who had previously asked them to coordinate the bus, and secondly, to coordinate the ancient town of Zhouzhuang, so that the dance troupe could have a better shooting scene.

The official one is convenient. Chen Xing came up with a shooting plan temporarily, and they were able to let the ancient town make way for filming.

But it is not to empty tourists, but to temporarily close a small scenic spot. This also made him not expect that his initial idea was to use composition and post-production to avoid tourists.

Zhouzhuang arrived soon. The buildings here are actually quite different from what Chen Xing saw before, but there are many ancient buildings where the second floors are pavilions made of wooden windows, rather than brick and stone buildings, which makes Zhouzhuang more ancient.

The girls drove the men out of the car, closed the curtains, and changed into civilian clothes in the car. They have been busy for many days, and today is their day off, and tomorrow night they will perform another piece in the theater, and then they will go abroad to perform, and they don't know when the rest time will be.

So, even though it's not long before half past four, they still want to change into beautiful clothes and walk around the ancient town.

After Chen Xing got out of the car, he said, "I'll go and see first, what is that scenic spot called?" "He only found one such place, but he didn't know where.

After all, he hadn't been here either.

"Let Xiao Xia take you." Xiao Xia's name is Xia Rihai, a boy of twenty-six or seventeen years old, nodded very heartily and said, "Okay, Teacher Chen Xing will come with me." That place is a little far from the main street of the scenic spot, and now that tourists are not allowed to enter, there should not be many people. "As soon as you enter the scenic spot, there are naturally countless tourists.

But after arriving at the shallow creek area, there were indeed no tourists, Chen Xing saw a few tourists who had not left treading water and playing in it, very happy, and also took a few photos of them with ease.

The height of the stream is just right. If you shoot from the shore, you won't be able to take pictures of the ancient town, and it won't be very distinctive.

Chen Xing went around here, but found two very good positions. One of them is Chen Xing entering the water and letting an ancient building in the distance be used as a background for the beauties of the dance troupe, and the second camera is a small slope only a few tens of centimeters high, which can also be said to be a small waterfall.

Chen Xing stood below to shoot them at a low angle, so he could ignore most of the clutter and only shoot water, people, and the sky.

It's all good, let's take one of each when the time comes. Although there is an expectation of a finished film, Chen Xing is still extremely looking forward to the final appearance of this photo made by him.

It must have been beautiful and shocking.