How to improve your shooting ability

Any occupation or skill needs continuous improvement, and photography is the same. As long as there is room for progress, we are all worth working hard for a little progress. So how can we improve our photography skills by going up a flight of stairs?

1, shot with a fixed focus lens.

The unique advantages of the traditional fixed-focus lens itself, on the one hand, make us more diligent, or let us walk into the subject and observe it more carefully, constantly moving back and forth to find a more suitable shooting angle. Although the zoom lens will greatly facilitate our shooting work and let us freely change between different focal lengths, we no longer need to carry a large number of lenses when we go out to shoot. Although the advantages of zoom lens are obvious, it is recommended that you only take the fixed-focus lens when you go out to shoot next time. In this impetuous society, slow down your pace, try slow-paced photography and taste your work.

2. Shooting in the worst conditions

As photographers, we often look for a better background and constantly adjust our shooting angle to make the works under the lens more artistic, especially when shooting under the worst conditions, which can make you find different beauty. It is a good means to improve our shooting techniques and help us to open our minds and shoot more creative works.

It can also help us train our ability to deal with different situations. For example, those who like to shoot light and shadow effects know that sunrise and sunset are the softest and most suitable time for photography. Try shooting in strong light at noon. Not every shooting condition is perfect, which requires photographers to constantly adjust and improve themselves.

3. Press the shutter carefully

The progress of science and technology, whether for photography or other aspects, has changed a lot. In the era of digital photography, we no longer consider the problem of wasting film, and our camera storage has more space to meet our long-term shooting needs, which also leads us to become lazy, press the shutter again and again, and no longer pay attention to careful observation and high-level shooting.

Pressing the shutter is actually a cautious operation for photographers. If you still think that the storage of the camera is only enough for you to take 20 photos like the previous film camera, will you still press the shutter in such a hurry? Careful use of the shutter can force you to seriously consider the composition, light, focus or other factors of each photo.

If you want to train yourself strictly, try shooting with film, and you will make progress. The limitation of film makes it impossible for you to take pictures randomly. You will instinctively look for the perfect scene, composition and so on.

4, shooting should have a theme

As a professional photographer, our job is to take photos with specific themes entrusted by customers. When we shoot in our spare time, we often don't have too many restrictions on the content of the photos. When we encounter good background and scenery, we can't help but pick up the camera and record this group of pictures. Therefore, free shooting and the customer letting you shoot are basically two important degrees in your mind.

We can ask friends to do shooting tasks for us, which will make our shooting more thematic. This way can also help us improve our photography skills. First, because of this way, we will think about the customer's views and make the work closer to the customer's requirements; The second is to urge us to complete all the contents of the shooting list required by customers perfectly. You can also ask your family to help you set tasks, but don't restrict their normal speech. Let them evaluate your work and make you more rigorous about photography.

5. High quality photography

For amateur photographers, there are very few photos that can be taken after going home for a day, which shows that you must improve the shooting efficiency. For professional photographers, it is more important for your professional work to complete the shooting tasks entrusted by customers within the specified time. Therefore, when we are training in this area, we must first formulate a shooting theme, such as shooting a specific stream of people for one hour and training many times, which will obviously improve your shooting efficiency and benefit.

Step 6 try different things

As a professional photographer, no matter what kind of photography you are often engaged in, don't fix your thinking mode, because shooting at a type of subject often makes you feel bored and enter a bottleneck period, which is often seen in different types of photographers. The stereotyped photos will make you less and less obvious about the theme of the photos.

You should try different things. If you are a street photographer, you can try to shoot sports works. If you are a wedding photographer, you should try to shoot landscapes, children, pets and other works. This will not only make you feel different fun, but also produce some fantastic ideas. These methods will not make you feel boring, but will only help you learn more skills.

7. Without modification

Without modification here means that the photos taken later are without modification. In the digital age, the post-work has become an indispensable part of the complete photography workflow, and most of them are aimed at each part of the picture to make substantial retouching and color correction, at least it is common to cut and color correction the picture.

If you don't want to let your photography skills stand still, then I suggest you give up the later stage as much as possible, improve your photography skills in the early stage, and don't modify your shot. What you need to do is to take good photos, not to take good photos with the later stage. As a professional photographer, if you can take perfect photos without post-processing, customers will only praise you, which also shows that your works have more post-processing space. At this time, if you go to post-processing, the effect will get better and better.