Photography and painting are both fine arts subjects, which is easier to learn?

Photography and painting are both fine arts subjects, which is easier to learn?

The advantage of photography is that you can take the desired photos in a short time, but the disadvantage is that you need very good equipment to take high-quality photos. As we all know, good equipment is usually not cheap.

Painting is created by art lovers or illustrators with their own hands, and must have a knowledge base of art, so the economic investment is very low, but the time cost is very high.

Whether it is painting or photography, if the creator has a high artistic pursuit, he needs to invest a lot of energy in his creation, and he will not be too relaxed in both mental and physical aspects. For example, a surrealist painter like Leng Leng often takes several months to complete a work. He works meticulously in the studio all day. Regardless of artistic standards, even this patience is beyond the endurance of ordinary people.

Painting is like this, so is photography. In order to shoot a work that conforms to one's creative thinking and has artistic appeal, it often takes a long time to grope in the wild. Many people only see the moment when the photographer presses the shutter smartly, but they don't know how much time and energy the photographer needs for this moment. Even after the shooting is completed, it needs to be carefully adjusted and modified by post-image processing technology. The reason why photography can change from a technology to an art is that the photographer's cultural accomplishment and artistic connotation are essential.

Painting needs a lot of time to learn and practice. If you have no time, you'd better learn photography. Just press the shutter. But your painting level will become the shortcoming of photography level, and painting is the foundation of all visual arts.

Whether it is painting or photography, ease and hardship are in your own state of mind. People who have different demands on themselves and pursue different arts will have different attitudes towards learning and creation. Where to go is all in your heart.

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