How to be a photographer?

If you choose photography, you'd better position yourself. Whether to be a wedding studio or a photography studio in the future Be a person who likes commercial photography, or do commercial photography of products. \x0d\\x0d\ Whether you are doing commercial portrait photography or commercial product photography, you should learn post-editing. Now is the digital age, good photographic pictures, 3 minutes to shoot, 7 minutes to repair. \ x0d \ x0d \ advertising makes more money. Because the customers who take wedding dresses are individuals who bear the expenses, the competition is fierce. Customers will choose cost-effective photography agencies to shoot, so profits will decrease with competition, but advertising is different. \ x0d \ x0d \ advertising is paid by enterprises or merchants, and those who pay by merchants will pass it on to consumers of products. So as far as the profit of the photography organization is concerned, as long as your technology is good enough, whether it is the lighting in the early stage or the film repair in the later stage, as long as there is no problem, you can still make money from advertising. \ x0d \ x0d \ and advertising is not seasonal, and wedding photography. Seasonality is more important. Especially for location shooting, winter is the off-season of wedding photography industry. \ x0d \ x0d \ The development prospect is hard to say, because the number of tourists has a great or small impact on your studio location, population flow and consumption capacity, including your studio environment, technology and consumer price. \ x0d \ x0d \ will be very hard at first, and can only support a meager income. Most of your income will go to pay the rent, which is unknown and has few customers. These are all difficult points. It depends on whether you can persist. \ x0d \ x0d \ Opening a studio or photo studio is not something one or two people can do. Want to have a good prospect, at least have a good team. \ x0d \ x0d \ A good team will make you even more powerful. Your team should at least have photographers, post-retouchers, makeup artists and planners. Be engaged in publicity business, including your logistics, electrician, finance and purchasing. \ x0d \ x0d \ I suggest you go to a photography school. The school comparative teaching system will tell you some basic skills and indoor portrait lighting and composition, which is very practical. \x0d\\x0d\ In addition, as you are a beginner in photography, it is recommended that you order some books and websites about the basic knowledge of photography \x0d\\x0d\ First, you should read your own camera manual \ x0d \ x0d \ If you want to shoot good works, you should master various settings and functions of the camera, such as Hou Lian pre-synchronization of the flash, such as continuous shooting. These instructions are very clear. \x0d\\x0d\ Second, I recommend an introductory technical book. Although the new york photography textbook \x0d\\x0d\ is a little old, it is enough for basic beginners, from the interpretation of aperture shutter to the lighting of portraits in the shed to the composition of outdoor portraits. I have made a general description of portrait photography, still life photography, landscape photography, some techniques and composition of sports photography for children and pets. Third, choose different books according to your own preferences \ x0d \ x0d \ For example, if you like taking portraits, choose some books on portrait photography; If you like to take pictures of scenery, look for a landscape photography book \ x0d \ x0d \ Fourth, you can buy photography magazines \ x0d \ \ every month, such as Friends of Photography, Portrait Photography, Popular Photography and Cappie. Fifth, go to some photography forums \ x0d \ x0d \ such as Hummingbird Network, Shadow Network, Jiayou Online, POCO, etc. \ x0d \ x0d \ Remember that taking more shots is the art of running out of light. To master the perfect exposure, you must shoot more and compare more \ x0d \ x0d \ look at other people's works and learn more.