How do novices improve their photography?

Don't rely on human eyes to judge whether a photo's exposure value is correct, because human eyes will make mistakes, and cameras and computer screens may also make mistakes, so the real way to judge a photo's exposure value is to look at the histogram.

Below, let's take a look at the daily necessary photography exercises for beginners.

1, learn to try spot metering.

Although the metering function of digital cameras is very convenient now, in fact, it will still fail in some cases. Learn to use spot metering to judge the most suitable exposure value by yourself. In addition, the method of spot metering is to place the metering point where you think it needs correct exposure (usually the theme), then lock the exposure with AE-L, and then make composition, focus and take photos.

2. Learn to observe the histogram

Don't judge whether a photo's exposure value is correct by human eye evaluation, because human eyes will make mistakes, and cameras and computer screens may also make mistakes, so the real way to judge a photo's exposure value is to look at the histogram.

3. Learn to use a fixed-focus lens

In addition to the high price and portability of fixed-focus lenses, learning to use these lenses can help you better understand the influence of focal length on picture compression. In addition, although the zoom lens is very convenient, the habit of using the fixed-focus lens makes you accustomed to taking two more steps to compose a picture and finding the best position to take pictures.

4. Be familiar with different white balances

Similarly, the camera's automatic white balance function is very method and accurate, but too accurate white balance sometimes makes your work too ordinary. So it is helpful for your photography to try different white balances in different scenes and understand the effects of different white balances. Of course, you can decide the white balance later, but you have to spend more time later.

5. learn to use Mmode.

The three basic elements of photography, shutter, aperture and ISO, not only affect the exposure value of photos, but also affect the photo effects such as dynamic blur, depth of field and noise, and MMode is a shooting mode that these three elements can be freely scheduled, so learning to use Mmode is helpful to understand the influence of these three elements on the photo effects such as exposure. Of course, shooting modes such as Amode and Smode are very convenient. Mmode can be used for practice or actual combat, but it is not used after use, and the shooting opportunity is missed.

6. Try to send a photo every day.

At present, facebook, Instagram, Flickr and other online platforms can easily share personal works, so try to send one of your own works every day, so that you can get used to continuous creation and understand others' comments on your own works, so as to explore your own shooting strengths and improvements.

The above is an introduction about how to improve the level of photography and the daily necessary photography exercises for beginners. I hope it helps you!