What is the term "Old Masters of Photography"?

The three words "old master" is not a very strict definition, it is a kind of name we call a group of photographers, in most of the population of these three words still with a certain pejorative component.

"Old Master" in Shanghainese refers to an old expert with a high level of skill and craftsmanship, while "Old Master" in the photographic community now carries a clear discriminatory and derogatory connotation.

"Old master" mostly refers to those who do not study photography for a long time, but what full-frame, fixed-focus, cannon as much as a lot, like to pile up to shoot beautiful women, shoot pseudo-folklore, shoot a thousand landscape photographs of the old and middle-aged photography enthusiasts.

Some photographers say that mages become mages because they firmly believe in the existence of magic and insist on using it in their daily lives. There are several broad categories of magic that are known and widely spread: equipment de flavors, film flavors, apple retouching, and air cutting.

Besides the fact that their subject matter is rather homogenous:

Their approach is also very homogenous. They like very little depth of field, very blurry backgrounds, and they like to use the "principle of subtraction" to its fullest extent without any way to explain the story or the surroundings. They like very long focal lengths, they like to shoot far away, they like to use close-ups of the scene, etc.

At the same time, they are also looking for fancy techniques that they can use to show off. They use as many complicated and difficult techniques as they can, regardless of whether or not the technique is used in the proper subject matter. Perhaps it is because their own aesthetic level is relatively low, so their self-confidence is more explosive, because they look at their own photos how to see how to feel good.