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"Photography is not a shutter? How can we become an art?

Photography itself is actually the operation of the camera. In addition to the shutter, there are complicated operations such as lens, depth of field, aperture and post. To outsiders, each item with a long gun and a short gun has a different influence on the work, just like the size of a brush. Photography is a complicated work, the application of lens, the choice of angle composition, what lens and aperture to use under different lighting conditions, because it often records the moment of things, and it does not take long time to learn and experience to capture the light and shadow of the moment, only misses and fails. So not everyone can get the desired moment by pressing the shutter, so the photographer is a professional practitioner, not as capable as the brick mover, so photography itself is not as simple as pressing the shutter.

Secondly, photography itself is not art, it is just a way to realize art, just like painting, with what color, with what pigment, with what composition, where to draw, with what pen, with what scraper and even with what material of paper. For photographers, you also need to consider composition, light and shadow, what lens to capture light and shadow, and what aperture to capture the picture. Capturing moments, after post-processing of words and themes, has become a unique art. Because it won't happen again. Other arts can have ideas, drafts and revisions. Photography is a creative moment. Even when posing for characters, there is always a moment when the body is the most natural and the eyes are the most wonderful. The moment you press the shutter, this moment is no longer wonderful, only this photo.

So don't have any questions about photography itself. There is no doubt that he just pressed the shutter, which is really not art, but the moment it produced, the moment it recorded and the name it gave profound meaning are the real unrepeatable art.