关于摄影的英语文章阅读

关于摄影的英语文章阅读

俯看世界原来这么美!

It’s the new frontier of photography that is taking pictures to a whole

new level – literally, Dronestagram is a new social media app hailed as

'Instagram for drones' and, now with over

30,000 users, the site held a photography competition earlier this month

in association with the likes of National Geographic, Kodak, Go Pro, Adobe and

some other sponsors, with a panel of

judges going through over 5,000 entries to pick a selection of winners.

如今正是摄影的局限将照片拍摄提升至一个全新的水准。Dronestagram是一个新的社交媒体应用软件。如字面意思所示，它被称作“无人机的Instagram”，现有超过3万名用户。这个网站在这个月月初举办了一项摄影大赛，由《国家地理》杂志、柯达、Go Pro相机品牌、Adobe等类似其他机构资助。专家评委将在5000多份作品中挑选出获奖者。

Founder of the app, Eric Dupin, said that despite the controversy that

hangs over drones - specifically in terms of military operations and

surveillance - there is no denying the incredible

new angle the technology has allowed photographers.

这个应用软件的创始人埃里克·杜邦表示尽管无人机因被运用于军事演练和侦查而存在争议，无法质疑的是，这项科技给摄影师们提供了一个全新的角度，拍出震撼人的壮丽照片。

'Some people are scared about these flying machines because they don't

know them very well and they just repeat what they hear from other people or

the media,’ Dupin told CNN.

杜邦在接受CNN记者的采访时称：“一些人因为对无人机知之甚少，便害怕这些飞翔的机器。他们只是在重复从其他人或媒体那听到的内容。”

'But most people I know and meet are fascinated by drones - particularly

if they see a demo of what we can do in terms of photography.'

“但我所结交与遇见的大多数人都被无人机吸引，尤其是在看到我们展示的无人机拍摄照片时。“

Incredible: First prize in the 'nature' category went to this portrait

calledSnorkeling with Sharks, taken on an island off Tahiti.

精妙绝伦：在“自然”类别上夺得桂冠的是这张称为“与鲨共潜”的照片。它摄于塔希提岛旁。

摄影与自然环境

Nature photography appeals to our nostalgiafor a time when we were more in

harmony with the planet.

The old adage"a picture is worth a thousand words" needs to be rethought.

More importantly, a picture can have the power to move a thousand hearts and

change a thousand minds. Often,

photographs bring to our eyes what we may have seen many times before,

but not noticed. They can shed new light on the everyday and the ordinary.

They can redirectthe course of our vision, so

that we see, think, imagine and even, perhaps, act differently.

No doubt, one of the most pressing campaigns of our times is that for

sustainabilityand environmental awareness. In the ruthless course of modernity,

our approach to nature has been one of

extractionand use. We urgently need to alter how we relate to the world

around us and to re-educate ourselves in terms of the larger planetary scheme,

hung, as it is, on a delicate ecological

balance that is being dangerously disturbed by our many modern

machinations in the name of science, technology, development and progress –

and, dare I say it, capital.

Nature photography has become a potenttool in this struggle. Through it,

we learn of the many others – the wondrousdiversity of flora and fauna –

with whom we cohabiton this planet. It is

also, as the Guardian's nature photography project reveals, a medium

taken up by professionals and amateurs alike. So, what role does photography

play in defining our relationship with nature?

What do images of nature and wildlife tell us and why do we feel

compelled to view them? Who among us has never been moved to snap a sunset on

the horizon, a flowing river, a blossom in spring?

Our zealfor visually representing nature has a long and complex history.

The adventof photography was celebrated as a milestone in the modernist quest

to capture nature better. For early

photography was largely devoted to documentary purposes and, in the

apparent fidelityof its representations, the camera in the 19th century

exceeded the naturalist drives of painters who,

during the Renaissance and early modern period, tried to explore, and so

tame, nature by rendering it into art.

Photography, however, is poised on a fine borderline between documentary

and art. Never just one or the other, photographs can exceed the set frame.

Moreover, the photographic frame can

reveal the unsettling ability to extend and include us in its space.

Photography is inclusive in its mediatoryrole. It extends covenants.

Often, nature photography calls on modern humanity's sense of nostalgia

for a harmony between man and the environment. As John Berger has rightly

stated, the way we see is conditioned by our

history, and so it is that we may look at nature in terms of loss. As

with the many images of the recent oil spilloff the coast of Florida, this can

be founded in fact and so provoke a sense of

culpability, a sudden awareness or questioning of our precepts and

actions. Photographs lead us to rethink, to realignthe frame of our

understanding.

The force of photography also lies in its playfulness. And by this, I mean

the many overlapping discoveries of unvoiced knowledge, feelings and

imagination that we stumble upon via images.

So, the flipsideof loss or pathos can be a freshness of vision or a

change of perspective. Above all, nature photography lends to our lives what

we long ago lost in our modern abandonment of

nature – the experience of wonderment, that sense of discovery, newness

and awe.

Take, for example, Ernst Haas's images of dramatic skies, the elements and

the seasons. His work, dramatic and inspiring, calls upon our pre-modern

imaginations of the world at its most

elemental, charged with a dynamic energy.

Photographs can also point out the extraordinary or magical in the

seemingly irrelevant, as in Bolucevschi Vitali's prizewinning image of ants

poised like dancers in stellar form. Modernised,

urbanised and alienatedas many of us are, photographs remind us of

nature's many complexities and subtleties. Or, as in Sebastio Salgado's on-going project Genesis that is linked to an equally

challenging project at the Instituto Terra to restore Brazil's Atlantic

rain forest, photography marries wonderment, amazement and joy to a well-defined and articulated commitment to the

planet. It melds fracturesand helps envisage solidarity in our

imbalanced and fractured world.

So what moves us to snap a sunset on the horizon, a flowing river, a

blossom in spring? The photograph by itself is only a token of a moment gone

by. Its power lies in the metaphor, for

photography captures our minds more than we capture the subject.

In the case of nature photography, we discover that the battle for

sustainability and environmental balance is not something fought "out there",

in the distance, but one that ultimately

returns us to the natural. Environmental photography matters, because it

offers the lifeline of a bridge between our modern, denaturalised, mechanistic

mores and the imperativeof nature within

and without.

Photos

照片…摄影

They say that a picture paints a thousand words.

他们说一幅照片描绘的是千言万语。

I have to say I agree. I love photographs.

我必须说我同意。我爱摄影。

I used to be crazy about taking pictures.

我曾经对摄影感到疯狂。

I used to take a lot of black and white photographs and disappear into the

dark room for hoursjust to make pictures.

我曾经拍过很多的黑白照片,在小黑屋里待上几个小时弄照片。

I enjoy taking pictures and looking at pictures.

我喜欢拍照片,看照片。

One of my favorite photographs is Ansel Adams.

我最喜欢的摄影家之一就是安塞尔•亚当斯。

But I don't like to take picture of places or things without people I care

about IN the photos.

但是我不喜欢没有我所在乎的人在地方或事物中的照片。

Recently, because of my cheap digital camera, most of family photos are

saved in my computer.

最近,因为我的便宜的数码相机,大多数的家庭照片都保存在我的电脑上。

I haven't printed out photos or had them developed for a long time.

我很长一段时间没有打印照片或把它们放在相册里。

I should get some done because I have a bunch of empty albums ready.

我应该做一些,因为我已经准备好了一堆空相册。

I also have some nice wooden picture frames .

我也有一些不错的木制相框。

I try to take pictures of the kids because they are growing up so quickly.

我试着拍些孩子们的照片,因为他们成长得太快。

I want to capture them while they are kids before they grow up on me.

我想要在他们孩提时代还没有超过我的时候捕捉一些瞬间。

I often think about taking pictures with "famous" people that I sometimes

work with, but I'm abit embarrassed.

我常常有时候与我一起工作的“著名”人士合影,但是我有点尴尬。

But other than that, when it comes to taking pictures,

但除此之外,,当拍照时,

I'm really not that shy.

我真的没有那么害羞。

I like to make funny expressions and have fun while taking pictures.

我喜欢在拍照的时候做搞笑的表情，些乐子。

I also don't have a problem asking someone to take a picture of my family

and me.

对于要求别人为我和家人拍照片，我也没有问题。

Talk about it:

谈论下面的话题:

Are you photogenic?

你上照吗?

Do you have a "better side"?

你在哪个位置更好?

Do you have lots of photo albums at home?

你在家有很多的相册吗?

Are you shy when it comes to asking people to take your picture?

要求别人你拍照片，你会害羞吗?

How often do you look at your childhood pictures?

你会时隔多久看看你的童年照片?

Are you good at taking photo?

你擅长拍照吗?

Do you have a digital camera?

你有数码相机吗?

Do you send digital pictures to your friends often?

你经常给你的朋友们发送数码照片吗?

Are you any good at those programs where you can manipulate digital

photographs?

你擅长处理数码照片吗?

When was the last time you had a family photo taken?

上次你拍摄家庭照片是什么时候?

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