What books should I buy for photography?

Last month's Double Eleven, I bought a bunch of photo albums with various discounts. You know, these books are usually too expensive to buy. Always carry it. After reading it in one breath this month, I will give you a summary and give my recommendation reasons. Tell everyone which books to choose as a study guide if they want to make a blockbuster.

Key thinking to develop your unique style. In fact, photography is a way to record the world around you. The quality of the film has little to do with the tools (that is, equipment) in hand, but more to do with the brain behind the lens. Your perspective is different, and the film is naturally different from others. This book chooses some themes: autumn, scenery, infrared ray, free travel, time delay, aerial photography, portrait. Through these, I can help you turn your thoughts into images.

In this book, it is mentioned that "photographic eyes" should not only use eyes, but also use heart. In addition to filming "what they see", they also have to film "what they think". The angle of view of a camera is very different from that of human eyes. Through the change of focal length, viewing angle and shutter setting, it presents a completely different scene from what the human eye sees. And we can use the camera to describe the scene in our mind in the form of photos. If you can completely control the camera and have a pair of "photographic eyes", you can break through the bottleneck and shoot extraordinary works.

After reading so many books about the later period, most of them tell you how to use Lightroom and Photoshop. So, then what? How much do you remember? How many applications do you have? You still haven't mastered the thinking and motivation behind the later period. The difference of this book lies in the author's reverse decoding of the later period. I'll tell you first, through filming, you can analyze the characteristics of this film and what later steps it has gone through, so as to improve your analysis ability of the film, drive you to actively analyze your ideas before the later stage, and avoid you from tuning the film blindly in the software. This book has an in-depth analysis of many late features and is recommended for students who encounter bottlenecks in the later period.

This book explains in depth the preliminary process of food photography. Mr. Miao Yun is a well-known commercial photographer of food still life in China, who has shot large food films for many well-known customers. This book introduces the initial steps of food photography in detail, including setting, food modeling, lighting and shooting. It is a good reference book for people who want to know about food photography. I think the value of this book is that the knowledge in it can be applied to still life photography. In life, we can use the knowledge in this book to make some good movies and share friends, which is also a very interesting thing.

This book is really dedicated to Xiaobai users. Many small white users think of photography. Maybe most of the scenes are to take some good photos when traveling. From the perspective of travel, this book starts with the basics and tells you how to take good photos during your trip. From the very beginning, I will teach you how to configure equipment, prepare for departure, shoot skills, and explain many topics such as scenery, architecture, humanities and nature. Even if you don't have any travel needs, I recommend you to use this book as a foundation.

The content of this book is a little deeper than the previous one. I suggest that students who have finished reading the first book read this book at once. This book is very interesting. The whole article, taking the travel destination as the main line, tells you how to shoot a movie in the corresponding place, like a travel guide. I'll tell you in chapters where is the best place to go every month throughout the year. In the corresponding chapter, there is a corresponding photographer who exposes his blockbuster and teaches you how to shoot.

Introduction to landscape photography is excellent, and all aspects of landscape photography are involved. Language is plain and close, not dogmatic. In this book, the author attaches great importance to the concept and thinking of landscape photography, standardizing the process first, and then starting shooting. On the contrary, the author pays little attention to the equipment. Equipment is just a tool in your hand, as long as you can use it well. What really restricts you is the thoughts hidden behind the machine. The book rarely describes the equipment of the camera lens, but more is the tripod system and the filter system, which are the most important and easily overlooked equipment in the landscape. The actual cases in the later stage of the landscape in the book are quite valuable.

After learning to a certain extent, you must be inseparable from sharping's help. Speaking of flash portraits, I'm afraid the whole world can't escape the old man joe McNally. He is a world-famous photographer who is good at flash portrait shooting. In this book, he will teach you the creative application of small flash. In this book, the old man focuses on the application of hot shoe flash in photography. First, briefly introduce the accessories related to flash, then start with single-lamp shooting, and finally expand to double-lamp and multi-lamp shooting.

For photography, the most important thing is light. Joe has been photographing for more than 30 years and knows how to describe, adjust, render, control and guide light. This time, it tells us what creative applications the small flash has by carving light. This book is much thicker than Diary of Hot Boots, with a large number of samples and detailed descriptions. It tells us how these photos were taken from a first-person perspective, just like telling you a story. No matter how much you know about flash photography, you should get some inspiration from this old man.

Before the flash photography section, I introduced two books by Joe's father. The book "Behind the Moment" mainly reviews the shooting ideas and stories behind some classic photos on his photography road for more than 30 years. Help you figure out the ins and outs of shooting and learn some skills by the way. The uniqueness of this book lies in the "triangle learning method". I'll give you a concept, introduce a skill he acquired in life, then give an example of his classic work to explain the application of this skill, and finally tell you the story behind this photo.

As lovers of landscape photography, when we learn theoretical knowledge to a certain extent, there will always be a bottleneck period. It seems that I know almost everything. Continuing to study the course feels like frying cold rice, wasting time and money, and has not brought much improvement to yourself. My composition, ideas and even the later period are still in the same place, and there is no film. At this time, you need to watch more master films and update your photography ideas by watching more big films. On Landscape is such a picture book. Edited by China Photography magazine, the excellent works of several domestic landscape masters are summarized, and the photographer's mental journey is attached. This book does not explain the equipment, has no film parameters, and pays attention to ideas. Exquisite printing is worth collecting and appreciating.

Author Xu Yinglong, freelance photographer. When he was studying in England, he set a banner for himself, that is, he would shoot a movie every day for a year, using only 50mm fixed-focus lens, mainly street shooting. This book is the result of his street shooting this year. He focused on scanning the cultural scenes on the streets of England, which was quite human. From his films, we can't see any shooting skills or post-shooting skills. On the contrary, we can learn from the author's shooting ideas and his way and perspective of observing society, which is also the core ability of street shooting.

In the photography circle, ansel adams is a master, especially in landscape photography. Adams traveled to Yosemite scenic spot with his parents since he was a child. At that time, he began to record the scenery there with his camera. One shot is more than ten years. There, it made many blockbusters and became famous in the United States after publication. Adams's style emphasizes that photos should be true and clear, rich in color and distinct in layers, and he doesn't like to be overweight in the later period. His most famous is the famous "zoning exposure method", which is the predecessor of our current landscape photography peripheral exposure and local exposure processing. There are still many people using it now. The sixth chapter of this book tells the essence of the idea of partition exposure in detail. Although many of them are based on the introduction of film exposure, the ideas can still be used for reference.

Bresson is a French photographer. He likes to capture wonderful moments with light equipment at any time. Break the mirror, look with the naked eye, and think about the chaos before taking pictures, instead of running away. Bresson's style is unified and complete. He said that his interest never lies in photography itself, but in the possibilities it presents. By forgetting me, he recorded the mood of the subject and the beauty of the form of the picture in an instant. In other words, it is the beauty of geometric structure evoked by the picture. This book is not thick, 88 pages. You can learn how Bresson sees the world through this book.