Ten minutes later, Lu Feng came into the house from the door with two bowls of noodles. He placed one bowl of noodles in front of Chen Xing and said to his brother: "Go and get it yourself from the kitchen table."
Chen Xing quickly thanked him.
The noodles are very ordinary noodles. The taste is not that good, but the seasoning is quite suitable for Chen Xing's taste.
After eating, it was already close to ten o'clock, and Lu Jiarang chatted with the middle-aged man named Lao Wang. From their chat, Chen Xing learned that this man was still a university professor, and the young man was his student.
Coming to this place is also to conduct further research and investigation on potash mines.
Lop Nur is a restricted area of life, a boundless desert.
In the past, China developed the atomic bomb and it was tested in this area. Being able to make such a decision can show how desolate the area around Lop Nur is.
But all this stopped after people discovered that Lop Nur had a large amount of potassium salt resources.
In the past, it could be said that Lop Nur was a desert without a drop of water, but this is not the case now. With the mining of potassium salt, the salt lake of Lop Nur has gradually returned, and now a patch of land can be seen on the latest satellite images.
All this is due to them.
Chen Xing had deep admiration for them for a while. These people lived in such a difficult area and did not even have the Internet that modern people are accustomed to, but they created such a great project.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Lop Nur has been revived.
But I can't find any information about them on the Internet. They are definitely unsung heroes.
The young graduate student hero's surname is Liu, Liu from the willow tree, Liu Jiujiang.
In fact, Chen Xing often envies other people's names that are very artistic, unlike him who has a lot of popular names.
Liu Jiujiang waited for Chen Xing to finish eating, then went to his room to get the camera. It was a well-maintained Sony with the same style that Chen Xing used before. It was considered fate.
Chen Xing took his camera, looked at it, and said, "You can see it's not very useful."
"Haha, I usually keep it in a moisture-proof box. I bought it with a loan. It's still a treasure."
He had only a small amount of living expenses at that time, but the camera was paid back slowly in 12 installments. Liu Jiujiang still remembers the period when he was eating bran-flavored vegetables. During the entire sophomore year, he was so poor that he couldn't find a girlfriend, just because of this camera.
Chen Xing nodded in agreement: "I treasured the camera when I first got it. No, it's also my treasure now. I don't even dare to take it out when it's windy or rainy."
Some Sonys are pampered, while some Nikons are on the battlefield. If Sonys were as resistant as Nikon, maybe Chen Xing would be able to shoot many beautiful rain scenes now.
There are a lot of starry skies in Liu Jiujiang's photos.
It would be a waste not to take pictures of the stars in Lop Nur. After all, there is nothing easy to take pictures of in the environment here. If you want to take pictures of the stars, there are no cities or light pollution around. There are 365 days a year, at least two-thirds of the time, it is sunny, which is the best in the country. Some of the best starry sky shooting spots.
"That's a good shot." Chen Xing praised.
He also flipped through the camera settings, which are all settings he has a personal understanding of, and he is considered an expert among enthusiasts.
Shooting stars doesn’t require you to have much understanding of photography, you just need to know your camera. Find a good place, use the star map on your mobile phone app to find the best angle, and then shoot directly using the fixed data.
If the first shot is not good, slightly modify the data and try again.
After all, Liu Jiujiang has lived in this place for a long time and has too much time to try and make mistakes.
"Quack." Hearing Chen Xing's compliment, he laughed loudly, "I feel more confident after hearing what you said. I didn't dare to send the photo out before."
Chen Xing turned to the end and saw the portraits he took before coming to Lop Nur.
This is...
"Your composition is pretty good, but taking pictures of girls is a little less interesting. Do you have a girlfriend?"
"Currently single." Liu Jiujiang suppressed his smile and said with some embarrassment.
Chen Xing didn't like to ask this question when he was single, but now he has the confidence. He smiled and explained to him: "Girlfriends are the most economical models. If it's not convenient for street photography, then take pictures of your girlfriends playing and playing every day. It would be nice to shoot people for ten days and a half."
Portrait photography is actually a very big subject. Many people who just get a camera are confused. They don’t know anything and have no rules. When shooting, they all rely on their personal feelings.
If you see other people taking good photos of girls, they are all practicing from scratch.
And there is another advantage. When photographing passers-by, no one can guarantee that they will look natural when they stand in front of your camera. Most girls must be nervous. Therefore, the photographer can slowly train the fixed girlfriend model.
This is also very fulfilling.
This is what Chen Xing did in Paris. At least now Hedwig can face Chen Xing's camera calmly.
After ten o'clock, Liu Jiujiang took Chen Xing and the others to the vacant room.
Chen Xing sleeps alone in a room, while Lu Feng and the Lu family let them sleep together. The quilts were all freshly taken out of the cabinet. In the dry climate of the northwest, these quilts have no smell even if they have not been used for a long time.
It was late at night, and the surroundings were eerily quiet.
There were no insects chirping outside the window, and there were no birds either. Only the faint sound of someone snoring could be heard.
But the night view through the window is beautiful.
There are so many stars, and I don’t know what makes them twinkle and twinkle. This is a picture that the camera cannot reflect. Not to mention the fixed-frame photos, even the highest-definition video, I can’t feel the beauty of seeing it with my own eyes.
Chen Xing forgot when he fell asleep, but he woke up because there was movement outside the window.
Chen Xing got up, unscrewed the mineral water bottle and took a sip of water, then came to the window and looked out. At this time, Liu Jiujiang and the others were already carrying a lot of things, carrying large bags on their backs, and carrying a black box containing detection equipment in both hands.
It's not yet dawn, and I don't know what time it is. The moon is still hanging in the sky and the stars are still twinkling.
Lao Wang was on the phone with a big camera. Liu Jiujiang took the opportunity to put down the box and rest. When he turned around, he saw Chen Xing standing at the window, so he smiled and said in a low voice: "Are you still awake?"
"Already had a good sleep." Chen Xing said.
He wanted to ask where they were going so early, but he immediately felt that he was sleepy. What could be the reason for them to go out with their equipment?
Let's explore.
The discovery of potassium salt mines in Lop Nur is a very important thing for the whole of China. Many people don't know what can be done by mining this stuff. It sounds strange, but it is an important raw material for making fertilizers.
China has transformed from a large importing country to a fertilizer exporting country today, feeding more than one billion people, relying on the Lop Nur potash mine. It is precisely because of the continuous exploration of these scientists that China has traveled the same path that the United States has traveled in thirty years in just a few years.
But they too have remained unknown.
After finishing the call, Lao Wang glanced at Chen Xing, smiled and said hello, and said, "Did I disturb your sleep?"
"No, just woke up."
He nodded and called the students to prepare for departure.
Liu Jiujiang also said goodbye to Chen Xing, bent down, picked up two boxes and chased after the teacher.
When Chen Xing saw this scene, he didn't have time to think too much. He turned around and picked up the camera, and quickly took a picture of Liu Jiujiang carrying two large boxes and chasing the two teachers in front of him.
Most of the time, when a photographer encounters something he wants to shoot, the picture already appears in his mind.
This captured photo is no exception.
With this window as the foreground, the two worlds of 'me' and 'them' were distinguished. The three of them were all carrying seemingly heavy packages. Because Liu Jiujiang was young and strong, he also took two extra bags for equipment. The box is chasing the person in front of it in a running posture.
There was no road ahead of them, just endless desert under the moonlight.
The stars in the sky were bright and seemed to illuminate their direction.
Of course, the photo Chen Xing captured just now is not like this. The description in the previous paragraph can only be seen after the production is completed before the film is completed.
For this reason, he also specially took a time-lapse of the starry sky in situ. This photo was used to enhance the starry sky part of the work later, so as to show the appearance of these three researchers wearing stars and the moon.
The name of this piece of work is "Pillowing the Stars and the Moon".
When he thought of this, Chen Xing was so excited that he couldn't sleep at all. He simply sat down at the table, took out his notebook and started working on this photo and the later stages of the Loulan sunset.
The sunset photo was okay, but if the photo I just took looked like what Chen Xing wanted, there would be a lot of things that needed to be edited.
The sky was slightly bright, and the Lu family was accustomed to getting up early to exercise. When they walked out of the room, they saw that the lights were still on in Chen Xing's room. When they walked over, they found that Chen Xing was still clicking the mouse on the computer, so he knocked on the window glass.
"Boss, did you not sleep or did you get up early?"
Chen Xing smiled and said, "I just got up early. Why do you want me to get up so early?"
"Run two laps."
He also asked Chen Xing if he was interested in running with him. He saw that Chen Xing had a good figure and was probably a sports person. But on the contrary, Chen Xing's strength has nothing to do with exercise. All his physical fitness depends entirely on the system.
It was already dawn by the time he came back from his run.
Chen Xing also finished retouching the pictures and watched Lu Feng cooking noodles in the kitchen.
The most convenient thing in the kitchen here is cooking noodles. The packaged noodles filled a cupboard. Seeing his brother coming back, Lu Feng quickly threw some more noodles in, and Chen Xing also helped with a bowl to mix the seasonings.
Just put a little of each of the listed seasonings and be careful to control the salt. If Chen Xing couldn't even cook noodles, Chen Xing might be expelled from Sichuan by a group of men in aprons.
While eating noodles, Lu Jiarang asked: "Are you still going to Loulan? If not, I will call the two soldiers directly. It is really difficult for us to go out without them to lead the way."
Chen Xing thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "I'm not going."
The atmosphere in Loulan is not suitable for the morning sun, so a photo of the sunset is enough. Chen Xing himself liked the one he took yesterday.
I don’t know where they live, but it only took two hours to drive here.
It was the same as when they came into Lop Nur. When a high-powered car drives on this road, people behind it can basically avoid driving. The dust will completely block people from seeing the road in front of them.
Lu Feng also saw this scene, and his heart was open to others.
A few hours later, Chen Xing saw the unique architecture of Qiang County again... The city had arrived.
As soon as he got off the car, Chen Xing made an overseas phone call to Seth. As soon as the call was connected, Chen Xing shouted in French: "Look at the mailbox, I took two great photos, but I haven't got the second one yet." I got the authorization from the model to show it to you.”
Seth loved nothing more than scoring photos taken by photographers.
Some give it five stars, and some give it four stars.
I don’t even look at the two-star ones. The worst works by Chen Xing are all three-star ones. However, their gallery has also signed contracts with other young photographers. These people are a bit mixed, and their skills are also high and low. Sometimes the photos are four-star, but more often than not they are crap in Seth's eyes.
But these people are not famous yet. Even if their pictures are better than Chen Xing’s, no one will buy them.
Didn't Seth always say that Chen Xing's output is low? Now I will give you two masterpieces directly. Are you surprised?
It's not that I can't take photos, it's just that I haven't gone on a trip yet. Let alone two five-star works. If there are six stars, I will break through the six stars and show it to you!
"Keep your voice down."
In fact, Seth had just arrived at the gallery not long ago. There was a time difference between the two places. It was almost time for Chen Xing to have dinner, but the Frenchman had just started working.
Before hanging up the phone, Seth opened the mailbox with a yawn.
The two photos sent by Chen Xing are now in a compressed state. When he clicked on the first one, Seth almost spit out the coffee in his mouth. He instantly became energetic. After zooming in, he looked closer at Chen Xing's photo. .
Night scenes, portraits, stories.
Chen Xing had previously shot a work with a similar style, which was still a humanistic story, but that one had already been taken away by the Paris Art Association.
If the collection of the Paris Art Association is Chen Xing's junior work, then this photo has been upgraded to two levels, jumping from the original junior high school to the university environment. The dots of stars just express the time of the picture, and the backpack The words and the name of the equipment on the box also express the hard work of these people.
In China today, celebrities stand in the foreground reaping honors and benefits, while scientific researchers can only earn basically fixed salaries and gradually promote the development of the times.
Especially China, as a country that has spent decades catching up with other countries for at least a hundred years, does it rely on stars?
Wasn't it created by this group of scientists?
The concept of this piece of work is so great!
He also shouted on the phone: "The photos are great, Chen, you have surpassed your previous self. I am looking at your second work now. If you have any surprises, be prepared to come over!"
I'll take it all!
There is also a market for photographing humanities. Some middle and high-level executives in France actually like Chen Xing’s style of photographing humanities.
After watching the second picture, Seth was silent on the phone for so long that Chen Xing even thought the phone was broken.
“How did you do that, were they all shot on the same day?”
"I took a nap halfway through, so it's been two days."
"The styles are all different, but if you look closely, you look like you. Chen, you are getting better and better. You must get the consent of these three people. The gallery needs a work like this very much now."
The good ones have all been chosen, so how can the gallery do without a grand finale?
Seth had decided that he would print the photo at the highest resolution and place it in the most conspicuous place in the gallery.
Let all guests and tourists who come to the gallery see this photo of Chen Xing as soon as they walk in.
As for the Loulan sunset...
Seth doesn't need to think about this photo. Chen Xing's Chinese-style works are currently too popular internationally. If he doesn't sell this painting at double the price, it will be a shame for him to take over the position of gallery manager.
"Chen, it would be great if all the photos you took were like this." Seth was talking nonsense.
He was thinking at this time.
Perenna Gallery will be listed on Nasdaq three years later.
It’s not that it’s unimaginable…
(End of chapter)
