This paper introduces how to improve the level of photographers and the methods to improve the level of photographers.

Only when a person goes up a tall building, looks at the end of the world and gradually widens his belt will he forget to eat and sleep, only to find that when he turns around, that person is in the dim light. Just like the three realms of life, the photographer's change in the standard of good or bad photos also reflects the improvement and progress of his photography level. The photographer's photos belong to that realm, and his photography level is correspondingly in that realm.

So what are the different levels of standards for good or bad photos?

First: narrative photos

You can say what you want to say through photos.

This level can generally be achieved through certain photography training and practice.

Seeing a beautiful place, preparing a dish to eat, seeing a beautiful woman and taking pictures, whether it is a camera or a mobile phone, is easier said than done.

Need to have basic composition skills, basic knowledge of light and shadow, can highlight the visual focus, can not post when it should not be posted. Such photos already have the basic characteristics of photographic language, which is different from written language, but through the organization of images, they say what they want to say.

For such photos, you usually get the evaluation: this place is really beautiful! What a beautiful girl! It looks like you've eaten well, and you still want to eat!

Such a good photo is easy to judge. Send it to Weibo WeChat without typing a word to see if you understand what you want to say.

Second: beautiful photos.

After the first re-training, you will want the photos to be more beautiful, so you start chasing better cameras, more professional lenses, and talk about the camera's imaging style, Jiao Wai and lens aperture all day.

I began to pay attention to the shooting method and angle. I can make a plain place dazzling through photography skills. For example, I will find some flowers as the foreground to take pictures of scenery, I will take pictures of beautiful women with telephoto and large aperture and reflector, and I will take pictures of running water slowly. If you can't shoot well, use post-processing tools to keep processing.

This beautiful photo may be exhibited and won the prize. The disadvantage is that if you don't sign it, no one can imagine that you took it. Most photographers will stop at this stage, slowly lose interest in shooting, or take beautiful photos without personality all their lives.

For such a photo, your evaluation will be: you took a beautiful photo! Wow, how did you do that? What camera lens and parameters are used?

The third weight: the photographer's photo

Nowadays, photography is a relatively rampant profession. Just buy an expensive set of equipment and hang it around your neck to get this title.

However, a real photographer is a group that still lacks a real painter or poet. To get the title of photographer, you can't rely on heavy camera bags, messy long hair, camera vests full of accessories or hearty laughter. You have to have your own style.

Photographers will explore their own photography style and language system on the basis of taking beautiful photos, and customers will come to visit because of your unique style.

Of course, in fact, everyone's shooting will have their own personality, and there are things they want to say in the photos, but it is quite difficult for these personalities to be recognized by the public. Therefore, you must first make your heart beautiful, and the photos will be beautiful.

Of course, darkness is ok. There are many dark people in this world.

The evaluation that can be obtained at this stage is: you took it at first sight! Not only beautiful, but also very artistic! Wow, what a great idea! How did you come up with it?

Fourth: moving photos

Good photos at this stage can also be called inner photos.

Usually, people who take such photos are transformed from a successful photographer. Tired of catering to readers, they began to try to build a language system that conforms to their own hearts, some of which are quite difficult and complicated.

This kind of photo is usually a challenge to the traditional photography system, and sometimes it is simply unreasonable. However, if you look at them patiently, you may stumble upon the inevitability.

Of course, there are often some geniuses flying over the first three stages, but geniuses are always envied by God. I often see these people shine for a while and then disappear, perhaps because they are too easy to get.

At this stage, the audience will be very divided. Some people will be shocked and fascinated by it, while others will not. This has nothing to do with the appreciation level, but with everyone's life experience and inner world.

People who are active in the photography academic circle and often win prizes or exhibitions basically belong to this category, so many people will complain that they can't understand the frontier photography exhibition. But there is no doubt that these people are fanatics, taking pictures with their lives, and you don't know how hard they work.

The usual evaluation is: I don't know! This photo touched me so much that I stared at it all afternoon.

Some of these photos will become classics of the times, and most of them will disappear as time goes by. Are trying to be the photos of the fifth realm.

The fifth realm: historical photos

When we look back at history, we will find that a photographer who can be widely remembered is quite remarkable. If there are ten photos that can be remembered by history, they must be masters.

Of course, if a photo wants to enter history, it must have some characteristics and a lot of luck. Not to mention luck, we can analyze the characteristics: such photos are a portrayal of this era, or they have created a new style of photography, or they are so classic for no reason.

No one knows what kind of photos the future history will leave for our time, so I can't say anything.

Maybe Roland? Bart's thorn theory will help. He believes that after a photo is taken, the audience will interpret it in many ways, and the theme that the photographer tries to express will often be ignored, while the unimportant details in the photo will often arouse greater interest. This is the thorn in the photo (oh, yes, this phenomenon is called: looking for bright spots on the Internet).

It is a worthwhile attempt to have a clear understanding of this era and deliberately leave many thorns for future generations to see.

Of course, it's hard, and it's hard, especially for many people who just like to play with cameras, so let it be.

Such a photo, the evaluation may be: you took this photo of this era. Years later, I still remember that photo of you. This is our time.