How to learn photography on a zero basis?

Step 1: Familiarize yourself with your equipment.

Be familiar with your own equipment. Whether you shoot with a mobile phone or a camera, the first step for us to learn photography is to be familiar with your own equipment. Here, you only need to know what each button of your device is used for and what effect will appear when you press these buttons. Only when you are familiar with your own machine can you quickly find the desired function when shooting.

As far as camera operation is concerned, the instruction manual is the best teacher. It is clearly written in it, and you don't have to ask others about the operation. Sometimes a difficult problem can be understood in a few minutes by flipping through the instructions. Therefore, we must form the good habit of reading instructions.

Step 2: Learn photography theory.

After being familiar with the first step of camera operation, you need to learn the theoretical knowledge of photography. Learning photography is actually very simple. You only need to understand the relationship between shutter, aperture and ISO to achieve correct exposure, then you have already started photography. In addition, by learning some basic knowledge such as focusing and photometry, you can almost establish a general theoretical framework of photography.

What is the only effective way to master theoretical knowledge faster and better? Practice? To practice more is to shoot more and practice more! Consolidate the theoretical knowledge learned through practice and see if your understanding of photography theory and practice is consistent. If not, we can solve this insufficient knowledge point in a targeted way, so that we can get twice the result with half the effort in our study.

Step 3: Learn photography skills.

When we are familiar with the equipment and master the basic theoretical knowledge, we also need to learn some specific photography skills, such as how to shoot night scenes, how to shoot long exposures and how to shoot multiple exposures.