Lu Yibei switched the Nikon camera to manual (M) mode and then adjusted the camera's settings.
The weather was nice, and since he was going to be shooting the formations later, he tried to keep the exposure low and the shutter speed high.
Since I also need to photograph people, the aperture can't be too small, otherwise the image will be too sharp.
He rotated the focus ring on the lens to bring the focal length and aperture to a more balanced position.
However, since this is a news release from a public account, factual accuracy is more important than aesthetics.
Lu Yibei didn't consider things like composition too much.
He snapped a photo casually and then tilted the camera screen toward Li Si.
"President, what do you think?"
Upon seeing it, Li Si exclaimed, "Very good! Much better than what Xia Li and I filmed. You've really studied it!"
"Hawaii is a joke, but what my dad taught me is true."
Lu Yibei casually mentioned, "He used to be a reporter, so now he's followed in his father's footsteps and his profession is a perfect match. So, Chairman, I'll film it like this."
"no problem."
Li Si said, then laughed and said, "No need to call me president, just call me Li Si. We're all classmates."
Xia Li interjected with a sly smile:
"Brother Bei means that you should use your job title when you're working."
Lu Yibei nodded seriously: "Xia Tudou is right."
Xia Li immediately became angry: "Lu Yibei, what did you say?!"
"You were weighing plants when you were working, as you said."
"…roll!"
Xia Li got angry and lashed out.
He kicked at Lu Yibei, but the latter twisted his waist to dodge.
Xia Li and Lu Yibei are true old friends.
It's the kind of relationship where even if you haven't seen each other for three or four years, as soon as you bump into each other, a single glance is enough to send you back to how you used to tell those pointless jokes.
"Besides," Xia Li gritted her teeth, "'Pear' is also a plant!"
"Um…"
Lu Yibei didn't answer. His camera was pointed at Ji Qingqian, but the focal length was too short to clearly capture the heroine's profile.
"Hey Bei-ge, you'd better take a few more pictures of your girlfriend..."
Xia Li's anger flared up quickly but subsided just as fast. She said, "It would be a shame if we didn't feature more of her in our weekly magazine, given how beautiful she is."
Lu Yibei thought for a moment and then pointed the camera at the girl with wavy hair next to the female warrior.
The female warrior is beautiful, but the news magazine aims to convey the spirit of military training to all teachers and students. The spirit of ordinary students is also important; we can't just focus on photographing good-looking people.
In plain terms, it means they don't want to show it to others.
Seeing Bei Ge so focused on his work, Xia Li said to Li Si:
"See, I told you my friendship with Brother Bei is only revolutionary..."
Lu Yibei did hear those words.
He was very professional; his eyes never left the camera, but he asked questions:
"Huh? What?"
"Didn't I invite you to help out with a cup of milk tea during orientation? That old fox insisted that there was something between us, he's so gossipy."
Xia Li pouted, as if she was sulking because she had been slandered.
Lu Yibei turned to look at Li Si with slight surprise. This guy didn't seem like the type to gossip...
Li Si appeared calm as he pushed up his glasses, but in reality, his hand was trembling slightly.
He did have his suspicions, but he didn't expect Xia Li to be so blunt as to bring it up so openly. Wasn't she embarrassed?
Oh, Xia Li isn't embarrassed at all; it's others who are embarrassed...
"I'm sorry," Li Si said with a wry smile.
“…It’s nothing.” Lu Yibei smiled and refocused his attention on the filming. He said, “I’ve known Xia Tudou for a long time. We used to play in the mud together…I never thought of her as a girl at all.”
He wanted to say, "We're all fucking buddies."
But after thinking about it, he didn't say it out loud. Others could say it, but Lu Yibei couldn't.
He was afraid that the female knight Qingqian would beat him up.
After all, his relationship with Lady Qingqian... well, before the change, it was rather delicate.
"They didn't just not treat me like a woman, they didn't treat me like a human being."
Xia Li became indignant at the mention of this: "Do you know what this guy used to do with me?"
She looked at Li Si as if she were complaining.
Li Si rarely saw Xia Li with this expression, and he shook his head with amusement.
"He taught me to play basketball—that's right! He taught me to play basketball!"
Xia Li stood on her tiptoes. Even if she grew another 30 centimeters, she still wouldn't be as tall as Lu Yibei. Not to mention the difference between men and women and the lack of physical strength, she couldn't even interfere with Lu Yibei's shot when she jumped up.
No wonder there's such resentment.
“Weren’t you quite happy back then?” Lu Yibei said.
"Having fun is fine, but you're still being inhuman!"
Li Si watched his two old friends bickering.
He then noticed that Lu Yibei took several sets of photos, but he would still unconsciously point the camera at Ji Qingqian's freshman class.
Then the school leaders arrived.
The square formation also began.
As the photographer, Lu Yibei was free to roam around with Li Si and others, sometimes taking a few pictures of students on his own, and sometimes taking a few pictures of leaders according to the client's requirements.
Not particularly busy, but not idle either.
As a senior student, Lu Yibei was certainly not surprised by the final scene of military training.
However, when Ji Qingqian's class appeared, he still watched them while filming, paying particular attention.
Because he was a photographer, he was able to get very close to the formation.
But the new students that Brother Monkey was leading were all quite serious. Even though he was taking pictures on the side, when he walked by, the new students all looked straight ahead without glancing to the side, and no one's gaze wandered off at all.
Ji Qingqian, who was in charge, was no exception.
Lu Yibei chuckled.
When Ji Qingqian walked past him with her face turned forward without looking at him, he felt a strange sense of being ignored.
After thinking about it, I felt relieved.
It doesn't matter, she sees him the most anyway.
He continued taking photos.
This was the case when Lu Yibei's class had military training before.
Monkey King had a good temper and often got along well with his students. Even if they didn't care about the food, they wanted to save face for their instructor. So everyone did their best to complete the final step.
Lu Yibei examined the photos he had just taken.
There are two model workers.
One man and one woman.
The woman is Ji Qingqian.
And the guy... um, I think his name is Chen Wei?
Lu Yibei remembered that this person had previously wanted to give the reward to the female knight-errant.
The young man looked quite energetic. Lu Yibei chuckled.
Lu Yibei immediately began taking photos of the next batch of passengers.
On the other side, the model girl who had finished marching in formation was staring intently at his back.
She had just passed by him but couldn't turn around to look at him, which made Ji Qingqian feel quite frustrated.
Now it's all right.
She wanted to see as much as she wanted.
The boy noticed the gaze behind him and turned around.
The two looked at each other.
The boy flashed a dazzling smile, but it lasted only a moment before he turned back to his work.
But his smile, paired with the green lawn beneath his feet and the azure white clouds above his head... Ji Qingqian suddenly wanted to take a picture of him too.
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