How to learn photography well?

In this era when everyone has a mobile phone, everyone can take photos, and everyone is from the media, learning photography and how to take good photos is helpful for a person's self-display and self-improvement. So how to learn photography well? Because the photography industry has

Third-rate photographic playback equipment, second-rate photographic playback technology, first-class photographic playback concept.

Classic lines, then let's talk about how to learn photography well from three aspects: equipment, technology and thought.

0 1 equipment

The equipment here not only refers to SLR, but also includes micro-single, card machine, mobile phone and so on. Anything that can freeze external things through images can be called photographic equipment.

It is said that third-rate photographers play with equipment, but it is not easy to play with equipment well. You may think that hundreds of pages of instructions in SLR are like reading a wordless gobbledygook. The easiest way to change the lens is to press a button to aim at the red dot, not to mention a lot of parameter control, as well as the use of remote control, flashing lights, WIFI and so on. Since it is so difficult to play a good SLR, you will find it very simple to take pictures with your mobile phone. In fact, it takes effort to play a good mobile phone.

Take my own Xiaomi 5 camera as an example. There are nine lighting modes such as panorama, countdown, voice control and camera shifting. Among them, the manual mode requires you to spend a lot of energy to learn. In manual mode, parameters such as white balance, shutter, sensitivity and focus can be adjusted to bring users a professional photo experience. In addition to the above, in camera settings, you can also adjust the frame size (16:9 or 4:3), set the reference line, street shooting mode, continuous shooting mode, photo quality, metering mode and sharpness, and add face recognition and time watermark. Therefore, it is meaningful to be arranged in the lens. You must try each of them and know what environment each function is suitable for.

02 technology

Technology is like a trick in martial arts. If you want to learn photography well, you must first learn technology well. The techniques here include basic composition skills, lighting skills, post-stage skills and so on.

According to different photographic subjects, besides mastering the basic techniques, we should also learn relevant techniques according to the needs of related subjects, such as the core technology of news documentary photography. The core technology of portrait photography is to guide and communicate models and arrange postures.

This paper takes this portrait of leibowitz, the queen of photography, as an example to analyze the application of her basic skills.

First of all, in the aspect of composition, the grid method is adopted, and the model is placed at the golden section on the upper right, which is very prominent. The center of gravity of the whole photo is at the upper right, and the fulcrum is just a thin clue, which gives people a shaky sense of crisis and can arouse readers' interest at once.

Then, as far as portrait photography is concerned, Leibowitz arranges the model to look straight ahead gracefully, but the picture stops completely, which can arouse the reader's curiosity. In addition, the model's calm expression contrasts with its dangerous environment and is very nervous, which is a masterpiece to arouse readers' emotions.

In addition, after learning martial arts, there is no way to win, and there is no correct composition, only the most suitable composition.

03 idea

Thought is the most difficult level to master and learn. I have two suggestions on how to improve my photographic thinking.

1. Improve your own photographic aesthetic foundation.

After mastering the basic composition lighting operation, if the shot works are purely visual records of people, things and things, and the goal and pursuit are to record perfect facts, it is practical photography at best. If you want to make your photography challenging, with deeper humanistic spirit and charming artistic impact, you must express the aesthetic characteristics of the main thing and attract readers' attention.

Here are two books, Aesthetic Walking by Zong Baihua and Photography Aesthetics by Wang Jiefei.

2. Appreciate the most classic masterpieces.

Bresson and marc riboud are recommended for news documentaries, Leibowitz and Steven Mercer for portraits, and ansel adams for scenery. Reading more masters' works can help you improve aesthetic comprehension quickly and discover your own shortcomings.

Finally, I used the beautiful photo taken by Anne Leibowitz, Li Zhenlou.

I have to say that Xiao Lizi was still very handsome when he was young.