What are the most common mistakes made by beginners in photography?

Photography has several basic skills: exposure control, composition, focusing, lighting, and focal length understanding. Only when the basic skills are solid can we imitate or create. Because novices are not skilled, they dare not use manual gear (M gear) in actual combat, and it is easy to shoot films with poor basic skills.

Exposure control. In general, it is to control the "brightness" of photos, which is the foundation of the foundation. Controlling "brightness" seems simple, but many people still can't control the exposure after learning photography, and often need to make up for it through digital post-processing, so that the image quality is lost in vain. Exposure control focuses on adjusting three parameters (shutter, aperture and ISO sensitivity), which need to be deeply understood. These three parameters not only directly determine the "brightness", but also affect dynamic blur, depth of field, image quality and other things. Photographers should consider the balance of these projects while controlling exposure. Beginners often ignore the head at first, and the shutter speed and depth of field, depth of field and image quality all take care of the abnormal exposure and miss the shooting opportunity. Therefore, it is necessary to practice a large number of manual gears in actual combat to avoid wasting energy on the most basic things.

Composition. This is the basis for determining the grade of a photo. There are many points in the composition and many things to consider. Photographers can generally build a good picture instantly by picking up the camera by experience, while beginners need to practice slowly to master the composition and gradually reduce the defects. When habits become subconscious, you can instantly create a good picture, so as not to waste the time of posing and miss the opportunity to follow.

Focus. Although it is natural to focus accurately, the autofocus ability of a camera alone is often not accurate enough (even for top cameras). Photographers need to accumulate rich experience to deal with all kinds of situations of inaccurate focus, and at the same time, no matter what machine they get, they should make good use of it. Novices, on the other hand, think that their cameras have quality problems as soon as they are out of focus, but they don't look for the reasons and think about the next solution, thus missing the accumulation of experience in solving problems.

Ran out. Photography is the art of using light. It can be said that even professional photographers have been evolving and upgrading their lighting technology. There is no such thing as a scholar. Beginners should continue to learn new things after learning the basics of light running and slowly apply new methods in actual combat. Of course, if the foundation is still useless, you still need to practice more and see kung fu in actual combat. There is no possibility of playing tricks.

Focus on understanding. This is also one of the foundations. Many beginners think that the focal length is only the difference between far and near, and often ignore that each focal length has different perspective characteristics, depth of field characteristics, deformation characteristics and background compression characteristics. These things often affect the picture effect. Only after a photographer deeply understands these characteristics can he choose a suitable lens combination and apply it to his works. This is why beginners always find it difficult to imitate the effects of many good films, thinking that they can imitate them by running closer or farther with one lens, but they don't think about what lens the author used and what distance he was shooting.

The above points are the basis of photography. Only when you are proficient can you spend your mind on creative creation, otherwise your energy will be wasted on these basic skills, and you will have no energy to think about more far-reaching things.