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I bought a SLR camera, how to get started with photography?

One, shut in the room for three days, while reading the instructions, while practicing the operation, carefully understand the script, and make every detail, every button, every turntable and turntable clear.

Second, go out of the house, shoot at least 20 shots in each mode, experience the combination of various shutter apertures, and understand the relationship between aperture, shutter and sensitivity. Be sure to play back and check when shooting. After going home, you should watch the film carefully in the computer and compare the final effect of the image under various parameters, so that you can know fairly well.

Third, if you can, you can find a better teacher to teach. If not, you can temporarily join the team of old wizards, because old wizards are not conservative and are good teachers. As beginners, many techniques they talk about, such as composition, light and shadow, are still enlightening. Asking more questions, listening more and thinking more is one of the most important learning methods for beginners of photography.

Four, conditional, you can buy some books on photography, know about the history of photography development in the world and China, know about the growth process of famous photographers, and study their classic works. Generally speaking, as beginners, they all start their own creation from Taskmaster's works. Now that the network is so developed, you can find the works of famous photographers at home and abroad online without much effort, so as a junior high school beginner, such learning is not only important, but also essential.

Try to determine your own photography direction in the shortest time, because as a photographer, you will eventually choose one or two photography styles you like. For example, some people like landscape photography, some people like humanistic documentary photography, some people like sweeping the street, some people like taking pictures of birds, some people like macro photography, some people like taking pictures of beautiful women's private houses, some people like taking pictures of flowers and plants ... you can take pictures of anything, but you must focus. Because only by focusing can we go further on the road of photography and form our own style!

Be familiar with the basic operation first, then look at the master photo album, and then shoot more and practice more.

Basic steps The learning steps from shallow to deep can be divided into the following steps.

1. Read the camera manual: After studying, you will find that no book or teacher can be more thorough and accurate than the manual.

2. Optics: Photography is the art of light. Knowing the characteristics and attributes of light and learning a lot of skills and techniques of using light, you can basically make a film.

3. Color: Color is the icing on the cake of the film, and it is also an important principle knowledge in the later period, so this is a bottleneck, and breaking through this bottleneck will rise to a higher level.

4. filming: photography is not only the accumulation of theoretical knowledge, but also the accumulation of experience. Often theory can point out the direction and path for us, but the road must be taken step by step, and the road must be taken repeatedly.

5. Late stage: 7 minutes to shoot and 3 minutes to repair, which can be straight out, but it lacks many changes and sublimation. In order to have more possibilities and rise to the artistic level, the later stage is essential.

7. Make money: Don't be so lofty. You don't even think about making money when you play art, because making money is the biggest motivation!

Before studying, you need to remember three cores:

1. The most basic meaning of photography is to feel the world with your own eyes, and to record those precious moments that you feel, which can't be met, and which are irreversible when the light passes away. .

2. The most basic soul of photography is the unique lens language which is different from painting, literature, music and plane composition.

3. The camera can be a recording tool of other expressions, but photography should have its own unique expression. .

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These three cores are often forgotten by many people in the process of learning photography technology, in the addiction of playing composition, playing light and playing late stage. . Including some photography big v.

Remember these three cores.

Please read the instructions first to understand the basic functions.

Watch more movies.

Take more pictures, it is best to find professional typesetting and send more pictures, so that the great gods can spray more.

(A miracle rookie keeps a SLR as a stupid camera)