How to improve photography skills? What are the photography skills?

How to improve photography skills? Photography was born for recording. Its powerful vitality after its birth lies precisely in its recording function. This is incomparable or irreplaceable by other technologies or arts. Many people love photography because it can record beauty. However, photography can't be understood by reading a few books, and it must be practiced constantly. Next, Bian Xiao will share with you nine things that changed my photography career.

1. Try all the functions of the camera.

Not only the simple setting of aperture shutter, but also many camera auxiliary functions such as focus position, multiple exposure function, mirror pre-lift, custom button, white balance offset, bracketing exposure, etc., which are probably not needed by photographers in actual shooting. For example, how do portrait photographers use the mirror preview function? But ideas often come from these places. When you really use the reflector to pre-shoot portraits, you must break the tradition and break the unexpected works, such as starry sky portraits and car rail portraits. Why not try it? Explore all the possibilities, there is definitely a surprise.

2. Simulated curing

This may be a very difficult thing for many photographers, but once you start, you will find it full of fun. Problems that will not be found when sorting out works at ordinary times will be exposed in the eyes of the curator, from which we can see our own shortcomings and the direction of our efforts. Simulated curation is like an exam, reviewing the past and guiding the future.

3. Take part in a photo contest or comment.

Taking part in the photo contest is a convenient and easy-to-use learning method, especially in the digital age, the scale and scope of the photo contest are getting bigger and bigger. Unfortunately, many competitions only care about whether this photo is seen by many people or which photo is the champion, but there are still some competitions that can really benefit photographers, such as teacher comments and audience comments, which are very important.

4. Find your favorite photos and summarize the reasons.

It's hard for me to determine which photo I like best. There may be many. So I selected some photos that impressed me the most recently, and then analyzed them. I learned three things from it: landscape photography can really move me; HDR can't adjust the photo to have no dark parts; What really shows the left and right pictures is light.

5. Print out your most satisfactory works and show them to non-photographers.

Many photographers were shocked by the result of this attempt, because the response they got was completely different from what they expected! Many professional and high-level photographic works are considered worthless, while some ordinary works are very popular with them. Photographers should understand the reasons and use these factors to guide their learning direction, such as making a choice between shooting audiences: facing high-end customers, photographers and world-class competitions, or facing the public and ordinary people around them. Either way, the most important thing is to know your heart.

6. Summarize photography skills and contribute.

That doesn't sound good. In fact, it is of great benefit! Writing photography skills is one of the most correct choices I have ever made, which forces me to keep learning and sum up experience. The photographer's experience often comes from his own tactile training. When he is about to shoot, he will naturally use his past experience to complete the shooting, but only after summing up can these experiences be improved faster. On the other hand, after summing up your own experience and contributing, you will get suggestions from other photographers, which is equivalent to taking your own advantages and disadvantages as an example to demonstrate, so as to improve your photography experience according to your own personal situation.

7. Try shooting at night.

If you haven't tried it, you really have to do it again. Night photography is a good way to learn photography, which allows photographers to concentrate on using up the light. Of course, you can learn to use all the light during the day, but believe me, it's not as cool as learning at night.

8. Choose a certain photography category as the main development direction.

Many people may think that picking up a camera is a photographer, but there are many options for photography. In the past, you may have photographed people, landscapes, documentaries and ecology. But now I suggest you choose the direction you are most interested in.

Photographers need extensive knowledge and their own specialties. Like a T-word, combined with extensive knowledge and unique in-depth experience, the road of photography will go further.

9. Learn a new PS skill.

This is also a process of learning and innovation. It should be noted that in the process of learning PS, we should think about whether the same effect can be achieved in the early stage and realize the difference between the two processes.