Comeback and Development of Large Format Photography in the Era of Digital Photography

摘要

With the arrival of the era of fast-food-style digital photography, tremendous changes has taken place in photography. However, large format photography still has its unique charm. Why we choose large format while phone photography is popular today? Why we still choose film cameras while digital ones are increasingly powerful? Why large format photography is still of great importance in modern artistic photography. The reason is that pictures shot by large format cameras have unparalleled visual artistic effects, which can give traditional photography the implication of thoughts. This paper first introduces the origin and characteristics of large picture photography. Secondly, this paper introduces the application of large-format photography in art photography, landscape photography and commercial photography, and expounds the value and significance of contemporary large-format photography. It is found that large painting plays an important role in the detail and quality of the works.