方画幅之美

The Beauty of Square Pictures

人们的视觉感受总是有一个喜新厌旧的习惯,当你厌倦了长方形的4:3构图时可以试着用正方形的构图取景拍摄。正方形画幅不是专业胶片摄影师的专利,你也可以试试找出以前的片子裁成正方形,说不定平庸的老照片也会有焕然一新的感觉。方画幅构图的优势首先是简洁明快。在黑白摄影中,很多摄影师钟情于用"禄来"、"哈苏"等相机拍摄方画幅作品。点、线、面等黑白摄影中很重要的形式元素在简洁的画面中更能纯粹地体现。

Man’s visual sense is apt to habitually reject the old and crave for the new.When you are fed up with oblong composition at a ratio of 4 to 3,you may try to find a view by square composition,the advantage of which exists in two aspects:First,it is concise and lucid.The essential formal elements in black-and-white photography such as points,lines,surfaces and so on can be more genuinely expressed in simple and clear tableaux.Second,the principle of extreme and mean ratio ceases to exert influence on composition.As is well known,it is an absolute taboo to put the theme in the centre of an oblong tableau,but it is unnecessary to feel any misgivings about the problem in square picture.Due to the innate stable equilibrium of a square,the composition will not cause an abrupt feeling, but a feeling of consummate design,if the theme is placed in the centre of a square tableau.