How do novices learn photography? What good platforms are recommended?

Beginners who want to learn photography need to systematically learn photography knowledge, master certain photography skills, imitate excellent photography works and improve their aesthetics.

First, read professional books In order to study more systematically, read more professional photography books. The following books are very suitable for learning photography.

Photographic composition

This book systematically expounds the principle and practice of photographic composition, and deeply discusses the relationship between photography, aesthetics and psychology. The superb theoretical accomplishment, rich practical experience and profound knowledge of the two authors are amazing.

camera operator

It is not only a great photo album and cartoon, but also a great novel, a great comedy, a great memoir and a great historical text. The value of this book is that it can open a small window to observe the life of ordinary Afghans. Documentary photos, real, profound or shocking, also make it easy for readers to sing.

Brief introduction of digital SLR photography

The content is very suitable for beginners of SLR, easy to understand and step by step, so that every reader can really understand the SLR camera in his hand and shoot the most ideal works with the right techniques and knowledge. This set of books explains in detail the knowledge and skills that should be mastered in each stage, rich pictures and illustrations, so that readers have a feeling of immersive learning and teach readers what they need to master. It is a rare SLR photography course.

The spirit of photography

Putting the development of photography into the social background, the core part tries to explore what kind of photography works. This book provides carefully selected pictures with captions, and at the same time clarifies the related issues involved in this book in the main clues, such as: Can we "believe" everything that photography shows us? Why does a photographic work show not only the whole content of the subject matter? How do photographers deal with historical events? Why photography is a sad art? Wait, the author's critical perspective and keen aesthetic consciousness make this book a landmark work.

Second, copy the more optimistic photos. Starting from imitation, learn from other people's photography aesthetics and improve their photography skills. The following photography websites, if you have nothing to do at ordinary times, you can visit more:

National Geographic

This is a photo community created by National Geographic magazine. 1888 was launched and read by nearly 10 million people around the world. The pictures displayed are the ecological, natural and geographical scenery around the world, which is a treasure house for landscape photographers to learn.

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This website is the Italian version of VOGUE magazine, which is divided into several columns: fashion, beauty, news, fashion show, talent and photography. Among them, the photography column has a large number of excellent fashion and portrait photography works, which is of great reference value to fashion photographers.

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The published photos are strictly selected by a team of professional gallery curators, which can be said to be the most stringent gathering place for artistic photos in the world. The page is simple and the pictures are selected every week. Click on the picture to view the information of the work.

Third, look at professional courses.

Only by looking at the fake style can we learn from practice. Although you have seen many excellent photographs, you don't even know the most basic parameter setting and composition. How can I take a good photo? So I still have to learn photography skills and recommend a few I often watch:

Friends of photography

Starting from the university, I often see the column "Raiders", which includes four sections: zero foundation, early stage, late stage and photography, a ***3000+ photography tutorial and dozens of high-quality articles in the "video lecture hall".

Tuchong com

There are many pre-and post-photography tutorials in the community, including portraits, post-photography, mobile phones, etc., which are friendly to novices and suitable for entry, but the content is not systematic enough and suitable for fragmentation time.

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Bad photography.

Is an old photography portal website, the homepage content is complicated, and there are many excellent tutorials in the forum, which is more suitable for learning photography skills.