What does the sea look like in your eyes? Is it endless blue? Or the choppy waves that stir up thousands of waves?
In Anlee's mobile phone lens, the sea can have many appearances, which can be seen in his photography works.
ONE.
ˉ Persistence in the sea
Each of us has more or less photos about the sea in our mobile phones. Anlee is also a post-90 s boy who likes to take photos of the sea.
The sea he shot is very concise, giving people a gentle, quiet and full of story feeling.
Anlee is from Chaoshan. After graduating from college, he came to work in Zhuhai. In his spare time, he always likes to be quiet and go for a walk by the seaside alone.
For him, approaching the sea means he walks into a quiet world, which brings a little comfort to his busy work.
In many people's eyes, the sea is nothing more than the sky, sea water and beach. Anlee said that he liked the works of Japanese photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto, who photographed different forms of sea.
Hiroshi Sugimoto is known as a Japanese philosophical photographer. In Seascapes, Hiroshi Sugimoto recorded countless seas around the world. Through Hiroshi Sugimoto, we saw time and a kind of understanding of the space material world.
As an ordinary office worker, Anlee can't visit the seas around the world like Hiroshi Sugimoto. The sea in front of him seems to be the same every day, but through a series of works by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Anlee has some new thoughts.
As her understanding of mobile phone photography continues to deepen, Anlee is no longer limited to shooting the sea, butPut the object of shooting on the relationship between people, scenes, weather and sea.
Many people think he is a landscape photographer, but he himself feels more like a recorder of life images.
He will use different shooting methods to record different appearances of the sea at different times and places. For example, waves, lighthouses, coconut trees, sun and moon shells will all have some connection with the sea.
If you want to photograph the sea too, Anlee's advice is to stop and observe.
When he stands by the seaside, he doesn't shoot all the time, but he will stay quietly to observe the behavior of people around him, ponder their thoughts, and find that different people on the beach and the sea will have a unique emotion.
Whether mother and son or lovers, in Anlee's view, their combination with the sea is a picture rich in stories. He hopes that through the lens, the viewer can see the relationship between the sea and the characters, and also convey the story of the people in the painting.
Of course, to make a photo more emotional, it must be closer to your subject.Anlee said.
In the past, Anlee was not good at talking. Like many tourists, he stood in the distance and took a picture before leaving. But later he found that people were not particularly resistant to taking pictures with mobile phones, so he also began to try to chat with different people, get some information about each person and then take pictures, which would deepen his understanding of the subject and deepen his understanding of the works. The expression will also be deeper. Anlee said that this process also found that she had a strong social awesomeness! Hahaha ~
Therefore, in Anlee's lens, we see not only the sea, but also the story of the sea and people and things.
Two.
ˉ Market life behind Zhuhai
In addition to the beating of waves and bustling scenery, Zhuhai will also have ordinary city life.
Anlee said that in addition to photographing the sea, he would also capture the contrast between the representative buildings in Zhuhai and the life in the city. Only in this prosperous life can we truly see the original appearance of life.
Just like this picture, behind the sun and moon shells are old buildings that have gone through vicissitudes of life, but this is also the reality of this city. Anlee hopes that through this contrast between prosperity and the city, the effect of visual collision can be produced, and the relationship between the characters and the city can be more truly displayed.
In addition to showing the truth of Zhuhai by pursuing the contrast between people and scenery in the shooting perspective, Anlee will also work hard in the later color mixing.
Every photographer's photo style will be different, which is closely related to the photographer's personal experience, aesthetics and personality. Anlee's photo style will give people an elegant visual aesthetic feeling, which he said may be related to his personality.
Anlee positions herself as a life recorder, so in the processing of photo effects,He will like to use plain or light colors to make the whole photo atmosphere give people a plain and simple but very comfortable feeling.
Anlee said that life is inherently dull, so there is no need for heavy makeup in photos. Only by depicting the city with the most dull colors can photos be closer to life and better enter the hearts of viewers.
Three.
ˉ Experience along the way
Anlee's recording steps have gone through five years since she began to contact photography.
At first, Anlee, like many people, felt that he had to take a camera when taking pictures, but later, because of his work, he couldn't take a camera all the time, so he began to contact mobile phone photography.
Anlee said that the advantage of mobile phone photography lies in its lightness. At the same time, mobile phone photography won't bring too much resistance and resentment to the subject like cameras, which also gives him more opportunities to communicate with people and dig out the inner stories of the characters.
It was also from the exposure to mobile phone photography that Anlee gradually changed her idea of shooting and began to think about the meaning of photography.
He bluntly said that in the past, the shooting was simply to take a photo of a beautiful thing, but now, he wants to get close to the people in the photo, listen to their stories, experience their emotions, and regard himself as a person who loves to record life, not a "photographer".
Many things feel boring after getting along for a long time, but Anlee can always shoot different pictures and find different charms in scenes that she has been involved in many times. To this, Anlee said it was due toSee more and try more.
Looking more means looking at other people's photographs at ordinary times, thinking about the connotation to be expressed by photos and some skills presented by photographers, constantly enriching one's own sense of pictures, and then applying this "experience" to practice.
Every time she goes out to shoot, Anlee will look for the beauty of another angle of the scene by using the foreground or changing angles, and at this time, the "experience" of looking at pictures will play a certain role.
Another "shooting experience" is to build your own self-confidence!
Building self-confidence will constantly motivate yourself to take more good-looking photos. Everyone builds self-confidence differently, and Anlee's self-confidence building comes from MPC.
Anlee has been exposed to photography since 2015. At that time, Playing Mobile Photography had just been established, so Anlee can be regarded as the first fans of Playing Mobile Photography. In 2020, she participated in the "4 th MPC Mobile Photography Contest" where Playing Mobile Photography was held, and won the Outstanding Photographer of the Year for the photo "Riyuebei Opera House".
His photos were recognized, which built a certain self-confidence for Anlee. Since then, Anlee has shared more mobile phone photography works on various platforms such as Weibo and the community. Many works have been successively awarded by Huawei, vivo, OPPO and other mobile phone manufacturers. Forwarded and recommended, through Anlee's photos, more people can see another kind of beauty in Zhuhai.
Up to now, as Anlee said, the biggest change is that when sharing and winning awards, I got to know my favorite photographer and gained recognition from professional photographers.
When the photographers he admired in the past appeared on his WeChat list one by one, it was something Anlee had never thought about before, but it was also the witness of Anlee's step-by-step recognition.
Taking time to capture novelty in the outside world during busy work may be a tiring thing for many people, but for Anlee, every time she goes out to shoot, it is the source of a sense of accomplishment and pleasure.
When you take a photo that satisfies you after traveling through mountains and rivers, the fatigue suddenly disappears, leaving Anlee with a full sense of fullness and satisfaction.
Regarding the plan for the new year, Anlee said that she hopes that when the epidemic eases, she can go out of Zhuhai, go to other cities to take pictures of different life scenes, and also use mobile phone lenses to record more unknown stories in other places.
