No matter how you compose a big landscape, there are only two ways to do it.

The earth occupies one-third, and the sky is largely blank.

This is an option that will only be considered when there is a lot of detail in the sky.

For example, there are a lot of white clouds, and the sunset reflected in the sunset is very beautiful, and I am reluctant to cut out even a point, so you can leave the sky blank in this way. But the sky is not detailed, and there are no clouds, so don't shoot like this.

On a sunny day, the earth can occupy two-thirds of the picture.

There are not many clouds in the sky today, and the sunset time has not yet arrived, so Chen Xing took a picture of the composition point he had chosen to see the effect, and used the broken loess wall standing on the ground to guide his vision.

But after seeing the effect, Chen Xing still felt that the warm-colored sunset was the best match for this land.

"Brother Jean, can we stay here tonight? I think the sunset here should be beautiful. ”

"Yes, there is a scientific research station nearby, which is manned all year round, and we often go to live there, but it is not free. And we have to go back to Qiang County at noon tomorrow at the latest. ”

The ticket here can't keep Chen Xing visiting.

Although this place is still maintained by the Bavarian Tourism Bureau, to be honest, they don't have much say here. Every year, the most visited teams from various provinces are the teachers of the history department or the archaeology department.

This kind of visit is not managed by the tourist office.

However, the tickets that tourists buy from them can only stay here for two days, perhaps taking into account that some tourists may be able to enjoy the sunset over Loulan here.

The sunset in the desert of the Western Regions has always been a frequent visitor to literati poetry since ancient times.

Chen Xing also had the idea of shooting a sunset film.

He loves to shoot this kind of subject, in various places in China.

The main thing is that it's too well matched.

When you shoot a sunset abroad, you may feel unremarkable, but in any ancient building in China, or in the environment of the Western Regions, the feeling of shooting a sunset is particularly beautiful.

found the location of the shooting, Chen Xing followed them to the car to prepare for a bite to eat.

It was difficult for the Lu family to spend a few hours in this deserted place with little signal, but it was just right for Chen Xing. In the afternoon, he could walk around the environment of the ancient city of Loulan more.

Chen Xing had a picture in his mind, although the surrounding buildings had collapsed so much that he couldn't see what they had been. But Chen Xing could vaguely see the houses built on the brick walls by the loess, the city walls, and the small yellow flags on the buildings that were blown by the wind and sand.

The scenery of the Dragon Gate Inn in the movie is faintly visible here.

This is a kind of desert-like, not desert, no greenery, barren all over the ground, but inexplicably very chivalrous.

The two soldiers outside are very talkative, and they are also very familiar with the two brothers of the Lu family, when Chen Xing and Lu Jiarang were wandering around in the Loulan Ruins, the three of them took out a deck of playing cards and played, and they didn't play with money, so they passed the boring time.

After all, the two soldiers don't have mobile phones, and even if they do, there is no signal.

"Who is this man? We haven't seen any tourists come in for a long time. ”

"A photographer, quite famous, can be regarded as an Internet celebrity, right, right, do you want it?"

"No, it's no wonder that the photographer hasn't had any good photos in Loulan for so many years, and it's not bad to have a photographer take a few landscape photos."

"Yes, a search on the Internet is full of photographs, and the background is all P, which is too fake."

Lu Feng said in his heart that the current review is so strict, a photographer brings a model over just to take a few photos of the model, then there will be a ghost if the review can be passed. The Bavarian Tourism and Cultural Bureau will never let such tourists in.

"People are very good, are they really Internet celebrities?" A soldier asked.

Chen Xing came back to eat something with them just now, and exchanged a few words in the middle, but he felt that Chen Xing was very good, he spoke kindly, and he was handsome.

"The main thing is that I think he is amazing, it doesn't matter if he is an Internet celebrity or not."

The topic quickly jumped from photography to modern influencers.

A few hours passed quickly, and the sunset in the western frontier came a little later than in the mainland, but when Chen Xing saw that the sun's rays gradually converged and became visible, Chen Xing felt that his wait was worthwhile.

In the past two years, the system has strengthened Chen Xing's photography strength many times, and when filming "Buddha Light", he has strengthened his ability to control the wide-angle lens, which makes him more handy when shooting landscapes.

After the Buddha Light was exhibited, many people were asking Chen Xing how to take pictures of the sunset.

Chinese people like to shoot the sunset.

Why?

Very simple.

At sunrise and sunset, the color temperature changes very quickly. When the color temperature is high, it can show a feeling of sadness or coldness, while when the color temperature is low, it can give people a feeling of warmth.

If there are clouds in the sky, that kind of beautiful beauty is really beyond words.

Chen Xing also answered this question from netizens in the news, and his reply was: "When the sky is beautiful, then pay attention to the ground." ”

A good sunset work, he shoots not only the scenery of the sunset, but also the feeling of the earth being visually constructed. Excellent ground conditions will give the sky a nice backdrop.

This is why in many Internet celebrity cities, there will be people who sell composition points at a high price.

When the sunset came, Chen Xing took a few photos, and Lu Jiarang also felt that Chen Xing's location was good, so he took a photo with his mobile phone and said, "Then let's go?" There is still a little time to get to the research station, and it will be very cold here at night. ”

"Can you wait a little longer?"

"How long?" Lu Jiarang asked.

"Two hours." Chen Xing judged the sky and said.

As mentioned before, the color temperature is low at sunrise and sunset, and the picture is warm, which is very suitable for shooting things where the subject of the ground is yellow, such as golden leaves, or the feeling of yellow sand on the side of Loulan.

But the period after sunset is also beautiful.

Photographers usually call this period of time blues time, and this time is used to shoot landscapes, and there will be a sense of desolation and loneliness.

Lu Jiarang hesitated for a moment and asked, "Can you forget it?" Because it's really dangerous here at night, and there are wolves. And when it gets dark at night, even we are here it is easy to get lost, because there is no reference on the road, and the driver hesitates a little and drives a hundred or so meters, and we all have to stay in the car for one night. ”

If it's just a wolf, Chen Xing is really not afraid.

But he also has to consider other people's feelings, so Chen Xing can only shake his head and say: "It's not very urgent, then let's go back, is that military vehicle with us?" ”

"They would have gone back a long time ago."

They only drove over to lead the way, and did not let them break into the military restricted area, and after confirming that Chen Xing and they would not return to Qiang County this afternoon, they left, and they would come back tomorrow when Chen Xing and them went back.

After getting in the car, everyone fastened their seat belts, and Lu Feng asked, "How is it, did you take a good photo?" ”

Lu Jiarang said with a smile: "If you shoot it, it will open your eyes in a while." ”

Although he used his mobile phone, he also received some guidance from Chen Xing.

The mobile phone can also adjust a lot of data when it turns on the professional mode, and you don't have to worry too much about the pixels, the built-in photography algorithm of the mobile phone will not only improve the image quality of the photo, but also fix some things that are not clear in the first place.

For example, take a mobile phone to take pictures of the moon, and the multiplier is full.

You'll even see craters on photos of the moon taken on your phone.

Is this reasonable?

Mobile phones can't achieve this effect, in fact, this is the automatic optimization of mobile phone photography, when it detects that it is the moon that is photographed, some adjustments are made automatically.

The off-road vehicle was lit with headlights, and there was no road along the way, just speeding on such a paved ground with a layer of yellow sand, occasionally making two turns.

"How did you find your way?" Chen Xing asked.

There are no traces of a car on the road, and as long as you don't drive for a day in this kind of place, the traces that fall today will be buried by the newly blown sand the next day, and you can't judge the route by tire prints at all.

"Remember the point." Lu Feng said. "For example, how long has you been driving and there is a rock, and when the headlights hit something, it means that you should turn around. Did you just see a flash of light in front of us? ”

"Seems to be there?"

"Well, that's a street sign that has been erected."

There are not many people here all year round, and building a road in the desert requires not only the cost of building a road but also a lot of maintenance costs, so it is very unrealistic to build a road here.

But there are street signs all the way to give people directions.

If the road is not to pass through the military control area, then there are such road signs along the way, which can lead directly from Qiang County to the Loulan Ruins.

After driving for half an hour, before it was completely dark, Chen Xing saw a relatively large blue canopy.

Is this a research station? It felt very basic.

It's like a makeshift house built in the middle of a construction site.

The house had only one floor, but had two sides, six or seven rooms, and in the middle there was a press well near the building. To be honest, this kind of well, except for some mountains where water resources are still difficult, can only be seen in books and movies in the mainland.

After getting out of the car, Lu Jiarang shouted: "Lao Wang, come out to pick up guests!" ”

A man in a yellow and blue jacket, with a sleek yellow beard and thick-bottomed glasses, walked out of a house. In his hand he holds a large bowl of vegetables full of rice and a layer of vegetables.

I was still holding chopsticks in my right hand, and after I came out, I chewed a few times and swallowed the rice before I said, "What's wrong?" Sending a newcomer here? ”

"How can you have a newcomer here, when you really come, you tell me, I will pick you up for free."

The middle-aged man smiled and said, "Then you wait, sooner or later." ”

Lu Jiarang introduced Chen Xing, and when he heard that Chen Xing was a photographer, the middle-aged man's eyes flashed, and he said: "Oh, our team is just short of a photographer, young man, I think you have great potential, do you want to join our scientific expedition team?" ”

Lu Jiarang coughed twice and reminded: "Even if you are remote here, you have to watch the news, people were in the top ten of the hot search some time ago." ”

In the days when Chen Xing won the award, the discussion of domestic photographers spread to the discussion caused outside the circle.

The Internet has no memory, although it was very popular at the time, but within a few days, ordinary netizens forgot about Chen Xing, and only those who paid more attention to photography still remembered that this incident happened.

and Lu Jiarang, who specifically searched for Chen Xing.

"What's the news?" The middle-aged man wondered.

At this time, Lu Feng's stomach rang, and he sighed and said, "Don't talk, let's use your kitchen to cook something to eat." ”

"Yes, yes, yes." Lu Jiarang said, "Stay in your two rooms again, and I'll leave tomorrow." ”

Lu Feng himself entered the kitchen, where the seasonings were very complete, and he was going to cook three bowls of noodles.

The middle-aged man with the bowl beckoned the remaining two to come in.

"Come, come in and sit, it's windy outside."

There is a light in the room, but I don't hear the sound of the motor, and the appearance of the electric light should not be a battery. Could it be that these lights are powered by wires? Electricity in such a remote place?

There were two other people in this room, who were also eating, one was about the same age as the old king, and the other was a little younger, about twenty-five.

"You can sit down first, I'll eat something, I'll starve to death."

The three of them all eat in large bowls, and by looking at their faces, you can see that these three people are people who have been running outdoors for a long time. Chen Xing was like this when he came back from Tibet, but he slowly recuperated later.

Lu Jiarang also knew them, said hello, and briefly introduced Chen Xing to them.

These three people should be engaged in mineral exploration, Lao Wang's chat with another person was mixed with a lot of professional terms and their local area numbers, the younger one looked at Chen Xing from time to time, and when Chen Xing looked over, he smiled.

It feels like the character should be very honest.

But if you are not honest, you can't stay here, how many young people can stay in places where the signal is low and you can't access the Internet.

Then he asked, "Are you that Chen Xing on the Internet?" ”

"Should it be me?"

If you ask this, you can add two keywords, such as Chen Xing, the grandmother of the beeping station, or a photographer, a traveler or something, after all, the name Chen Xing is still relatively popular in China.

"That's you, I've heard you." He said with a smile.

"I've seen some of your videos, they're very well shot, and that's good, I really didn't expect to meet you here."

He felt that he had been exiled, and that other people's graduate students had a relaxed and happy life, so why did he have to do hard work with his teacher in this inaccessible place? If it weren't for the face of his graduation certificate, he would have quit a long time ago.

But in this place where he can't see a few new faces in a year, he also met a grandmother who he had watched the video.

Fate, yes.

Chen Xing nodded: "Hello." ”

"Can I ask you how to take pictures? I've been buying my camera for a few years, and although I take it with me everywhere, I haven't had much chance to use it, and I can't shoot it well. ”

Lao Wang stopped chatting with his colleagues, burped and said, "Do you still have the energy to study how to take pictures?" The young man is in really good spirits, and you will check whether there is any error in our calculations today, so as not to disturb the rest of the guests. ”

(End of chapter)