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Photography knowledge

Photography knowledge | photography recommended books.

1. photography foundation

Highlight: This book is the basic teaching material for learning photography. From camera foundation, lens and equipment selection to light, composition, color and post-retouching, you can basically understand the problems that beginners may encounter.

Recommended reason for "A Photo Album": The shooting ideas, shooting skills and key skills summarized by more than 200 excellent photo albums from actual combat experience. Objective To broaden readers' horizons and understand their own learning methods and observation and thinking methods.

2. Photographic composition

Recommended reasons for photographic composition: the principle and practice of photographic composition are systematically expounded, and the relationship between photography, aesthetics and psychology is deeply discussed.

Recommended reason for photographic composition: In order to cultivate photographers' keen observation ability and improve their aesthetic ability, the author puts forward various experimental means and training methods.

Photography light

Recommended reason for The Art of Light and Shadow: This paper analyzes the application of light and shadow in portrait photography from a unique perspective, involving the properties of light, the types of light spots, the skills of light distribution and the later stage, to help people who want to know about the light used in photography.

Recommended reason for "A Photo Album": Starting from the simplest single-lamp application, it gradually expanded to double-lamp and multi-lamp. Take the magazine or business picture taken by the author as an example to show readers the colorful world of flash photography in a simple way.

4. Photographic color

Recommended reason for Principles of Color Design: tell readers the basic knowledge of color, how to get a harmonious color collocation, how to choose a color collocation that emphasizes design, how to give people a specific impression, and a large number of practical cases of color collocation with rich examples and concise sentences.

Recommended reason for "Principles of Color Matching Design": Explain the absolutely inevitable color matching theory one by one through simple and easy-to-understand sample works, compare the specific design cases before and after revision, and analyze how to make color matching more effective and expressive.

5. Photography theme

Recommended reason for "Introduction to Aesthetic Basis of Portrait Photography": Starting from the essentials and knowledge theory of thematic portraits, explain the themes and shooting methods of portrait photography in detail, including black and white portraits, life portraits, fashion portraits and other core themes.

Recommended reason for "The Art of Photography": This book selects the works of nearly 250 photographers, and shows readers a wide range of topics and profound ideas of contemporary photography in the form of illustrations.

6. Post-photography

Recommended reason for "The Master's Road in the Late Stage of Digital Photography": Li Tao elaborated on the late stage of digital photography through three parts: pre-shooting preparation and post-operation, post-processing and post-application Let readers have an overall understanding and thinking about the later period of digital photography from a higher height.

Recommended reason: This book introduces the commonly used post-processing tools in a simple way, and also shows the field of landscape photography in China and the West today, teaching readers how to retouch, why to retouch, and what are the aesthetic principles behind these treatments.

7. Aesthetic improvement

Recommended reason for judging ugliness: If there is no ugliness in the world, where does beauty come from? The author explores and explains his own way of appreciating ugliness with his consistent style, which is fascinating, humorous and handy at times.

Recommended reason: From the artistic point of view, this book has a deeper understanding of the observation, framing, composition, balance, lighting, filter use and post-processing of photography.

Reasons for recommending photography today: It is divided into 1 1 themes, among which street photography, portrait photography, landscape photography and documentary photography have been repeatedly emphasized in the history of photography, which is of practical significance to the development of contemporary art.

Recommended reason for "The Art of Photography": This book is a readable, easy-to-understand and most comprehensive photography teaching material, with more than 65,438+000 black-and-white and color photography illustrations and various charts, which can help beginners, senior photographers and even senior photographers find their own photography expressions.