The structure and concept of photography

One day, on a whim, you picked up your noble SLR camera and walked out into the street. There are thousands of landscapes around you. You photographed the air, flowers, birds and thousands of birds. Are you satisfied with the photos you took? If you are not satisfied, you can ask, and then ... how can I take a good photo?

Before studying how to shoot, let's think about a problem. What do you think is good?

What attracted you most when you walked into the art gallery? Why does it make you feel beautiful? Do you like the composition, color or technique of this painting? Or does looking at this painting make you feel that there is a voice telling you its story in your ear?

Taking pictures is actually very similar to drawing, except that you have to draw with light and shadow. There is no need to prepare paper and pens, easels, paints, etc. Just hold your mobile phone or camera and move your fingers. Expensive SLR cameras may help you icing on the cake, but they are by no means the only condition for taking good photos. The real key is how to control the most precious equipment in photographic equipment-your eyes.

This colorful world is full of beautiful scenery, depending on whether you have a pair of eyes to find beauty. No? Don't lose heart, first recommend two directions to help you exercise your eyes.

If you have seen the works of major photographers at home and abroad, you will find that although they have different styles, they have one thing in common. They have an extraordinary taste for composition.

"Composition" refers to how to arrange the visual elements you see in the picture of a camera or mobile phone. To put it more bluntly, it is to move the position where you stand or the angle of shooting to make the people and things in the picture more harmonious and beautiful.

At the same time, in the same place, the photos taken by two people with the same camera will be very different because of the different shooting positions and angles, so no matter which composition method you use, please practice your body first, because a good photographer needs to climb up and down, hunch over, and climb, skydive and even hang high if necessary!

When you want to press the shutter, it is also important to leave the present "idea" (mind+thought). The so-called mind refers to what kind of mind you want to show people through photos. Thought refers to what you see through the camera, what you are interested in and want to keep.

So, don't press the shutter in a hurry. Before you want to shoot, please stand on the scene and look carefully to see what you feel in your heart. Is it happiness? Is it moving? Is it loneliness? Or happiness? And these feelings, who do you want to show your feelings at that time through the people and things that appear in your photos?

No photographer is always aiming at the target, and the first shot must be a good photo. Even senior masters should keep practicing and learning, keep improving, keep a constant curiosity and explore more possibilities all the way.

So, whether you want to step into the deep pit of SLR, or you want to be a mobile phone pie happily and contentedly, go out and take pictures of air, flowers, birds, beautiful women and tens of thousands of birds casually, and remember what those photos that satisfy you mean to you.