What are those popular mobile phone photography courses about?

This year is a year when I study photography crazily. I spent a lot of money from camera to mobile phone, from online to offline. What have I learned?

Two days ago, I added the WeChat of my idol teacher Han Song. In my spare time, I took Han Song's class as an example to introduce the main contents of the mobile phone photography course.

Before we begin, let's enjoy the works of several groups of teachers.

Looking at the picture above, I feel that the teacher is biased towards minimalism and pays attention to the changes of light and shadow and lines. But the teacher's work is not a single style, he will take such lively photos.

I especially like the following award-winning work, from color to composition, to the expression of characters, to the moment when pigeons spread their wings, which was immediately circled.

It may take no more than 1 hour from getting to know the teacher and reading his works to signing up for class, because the course is not expensive. But the harvest is really great.

First of all, you have to be familiar with your shooting tool-mobile phone, and know how to focus, how to automatically/manually expose, how to continuous shooting and how to shoot with hdr. Understand the basic functions first.

Secondly, you have to have corresponding shooting and post-production apps, such as snapseed, vsco, skew, retouching, slow shutter and so on.

If shooting outdoors, you need some external hardware, such as tripod, charging treasure, external lens and so on.

Since it is photography, both mobile phones and cameras should follow the three elements of photography: composition, color and light.

Grasp these three elements, and the photos will not be ugly.

composition

The teacher didn't introduce the types and skills of composition at first, but taught us to do subtraction.

At the beginning of learning, our ability to control the picture is not strong, so we should purify the visual elements and pay attention to simple geometric figures.

A column and an interesting light and shadow can complete a painting.

colour

In the color part, the teacher introduced the three primary colors, cold and warm colors, and the different atmosphere feelings brought by the contrast of different colors such as zero contrast, harmonious contrast and strong contrast.

This is beyond words. The teacher directly demonstrated it with his own photos.

light

Light is mainly divided into natural light and landscape light. According to the position of light, it can be divided into forward light, backlight, side backlight and so on.

Generally, buildings are photographed with smooth light, which is rarely used to photograph people, because people's faces will lack a sense of hierarchy. Backlighting can usually produce beautiful silhouette and light and shadow effects.

The teacher's grasp of light is really great!

In the next few classes, the teacher will explain according to different topics, such as people shooting, still life shooting, street humanities shooting, landscape shooting, architecture shooting and so on.

Every subject has its own shooting skills, shooting angles and some suitable scenes, so I won't say more.

These are not the most important, what matters is the teacher's understanding of photography:

I was particularly impressed by one evening class. The teacher has a few photos, and I feel really passers-by, but after the teacher's cutting and color matching, it has become very colorful. This kind of control of the picture is not something we can have immediately in a few classes. The operation of mobile phone photography is not difficult and there are not many skills to speak of. Only by constantly observing life and constantly improving one's aesthetics can one improve one's works.

Another thing that impressed me deeply is that the teacher knows those famous teachers very well, which shows that he has read the works of many masters and combined his own understanding, thinking and practice to get today's works.

After attending the teacher's class, I found it great that I would observe the sights, things and people in daily life, and then shoot them with different eyes.

At Nanjing Airport, I went out of my way to look for places that I usually ignore, and took the following two photos with a sense of geometry.

The heavy snow in Nanjing a few days ago couldn't stop my desire to go out and shoot snow scenes.

In life, we will always pay attention to the changes of light and shadow and lines.

In addition to Han Song's class, I also attended about three or four teachers' mobile phone photography classes. The content is similar, which is nothing more than teaching the three elements of photography and then using the post-app, as well as my own tips, such as how to slowly shoot night scenes, flowing water and panoramic views.

In fact, as long as you choose a teacher who is in line with your own aesthetics, 1 is enough. After eating it thoroughly, keep practicing.

Through Han Song's courses and works, I gradually have a clear learning path:

1. Watch more good pictures (works of masters, works of teachers you like, good movies, etc. ).

2. continue to imitate (all powerful people start with imitation, don't feel like you are imitating low)

Observe life (the scenery is not far away, as long as you are good at observing, you are surrounded by scenery. There is a photographer on lofter: physical education teacher Neixian Zhang, who specializes in photographing children in physical education class and has also photographed his own style.

4. Keep thinking (what kind of life do you like, what kind of feelings your works express, your understanding of light and shadow, and then you will form your own style)

Now I don't look around for courses. What matters in photography is not how many skills you know, but how many things you shoot with what you know. How much did you spend on a good photo?

20 18, number one, set yourself a small goal, and shoot 10000 first this year. I hope I can make a good work ~