How difficult is it to learn photography?

I have been a journalist for five years. I studied journalism in college and studied photography with the China Prize winners for some time. Let me answer your question.

1, it is not difficult to learn photography as a whole, but it is difficult to specialize.

2. Photography is the art of subtraction, which requires talent and artistic thinking. This is something you need to consider.

If you are self-taught, there are many related photography books on the Internet, but most of them are gimmicks written by ordinary people, which are unreadable. If you want to study hard, you can buy a textbook (two volumes) of the New York Institute of Photography. The educational route of this book is from the shallow to the deep, from the surface to the inside, and you can learn photography systematically.

4. The skills of photography can be summed up as exposure, composition and lighting. If you learn these three points well, your photography skills will basically enter the room, and the rest are auxiliary abilities.

From my professional experience, photography needs a process of continuous learning and thinking. Every time I go through a process, the whole person's photographic perspective and thinking will change greatly, which requires scholars to have a deep and wide cultural accumulation and promote the growth of their own photographic thinking by analogy, which is equivalent to learning more music, history and poetry while learning painting, and promoting the growth of artistic skills through accumulation.

6. Summary: If learning photography is a personal hobby and there are no very high requirements, then learning is still very easy. Buy some related books to read. More hands-on practice, more communication with people in photo posts and forums, their photography skills will improve rapidly, and the quality of photos taken with or without learning is still very different; If you are determined to become a professional photographer, learning is a long process, which requires firm perseverance, sufficient time and sufficient funds. Of course, you can also join a professional photography organization and start from the basics. There is still a long way to go in Xiu Yuan. I hope these answers can help you and other friends who want to learn photography.