From amateur photographer to professional commercial photographer.

How to become a professional commercial photographer from an amateur photographer?

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1. First, you have a camera. If it is a SLR, please read the instructions carefully.

I know this book is thick and boring, but please read it carefully. Please use online search flexibly if you don't understand nouns. Many people, including those who run around the street with SLR, don't even understand the most basic aperture, shutter and photosensitive combination. You have a pen, please master the way to hold it; You have a piano, please learn how to play it normally. He's just a tool. You must learn to use it before you can create it. If you have a higher goal and want to be a professional or professional photographer, please list 20 famous photographers in the world and their masterpieces (there are a lot of masterpieces).

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Intermediate enthusiast

This stage will be very long. As soon as you get out of the book, take to the street or walk into the street, you start posing for your friends and taking pictures of pedestrians. Please do what you want. Remember to ask for help from yourself before asking for help from others. The more you ask of others, the less you ask of yourself. The lazier you are, laziness and procrastination are the enemies of mankind. ? This picture is so dark! This one is too bright! ? This one is too soft. Are your hands shaking? Why is the background blurred? Why is the face in the back row blurred? When you encounter the above problems, the two books mentioned above will give you the answers. Well, after filming for a while, you will no longer be in a hurry and be at a loss with your camera. You can even predict those problems before pressing the shutter, solve them in advance and then press the shutter, and then you can prepare to shoot a group without checking. But you start to encounter the first bottleneck. You feel that your shooting is poor, uncreative, unattractive and so on. You're getting confused. I have mastered the camera, why can't I take it well? What's the matter?

On this issue

The micro answer is: your composition is wrong;

The macro answer is: your aesthetic ability needs to be exercised.

The previous answer, the book recommended to you is: the photographic composition of Maben clements/David Rosenfeld; Great Wall Publishing House.

These books are second only to other books in importance here. New photos? . She tells you what a composition is, why you need it and how to write it. At the same time, this book pays great attention to training your composition recognition ability and graphic thinking ability. A good book is more about exercising your mind than telling you what to do, and so is a good answer.

The latter answer is really macro, but not to fool you.

There are contradictions in the recommended books. In order not to add confusion to other art lovers such as art, sculpture, ceramics and even performance art, I recommend the revised color version of Li Zehou's The Course of Beauty. Publication year of the revised color version: 2002- 10 (200 1 is there a color map version).

Really, in fact, to refine aesthetic ability, there are many books to read and many words to say:

If you want to improve your aesthetics, you can have a needle and a thread around you. Like what? Pre-Qin people loved herbs, Wei Jin loved chrysanthemums, Tang loved peonies, Song loved them, and Ming planted camellias to raise orchids?