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How should a photographer live?

Light plays a very important role in photography, but friends who are new to photography often ignore the use of light. It's not that I don't know its importance, but that I forgot to pay attention to the existence of light when I picked up the camera. This paper introduces the basic rules of photography light for beginners.

There is no doubt that the role of light is very important. Without light, there would be no photography. People's understanding of light in the field of photography can be divided into three categories:

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1. Lighting

That is, it plays a lighting role and sets off the light of the object being photographed. The illumination light can come from nature (natural light). Such as the sun, moon, stars, etc. It can also come from flashlights, light bulbs, bonfires, fluorescent lights, etc.

2. Stereoscopic lighting

That is, the light that expresses the external shape of an object, highlights its three-dimensional texture, emphasizes the coordination of color and shadow, and outlines the outline. The realization of modeling light mainly depends on modeling light. General studio shooting often requires the intervention of modeling light.

3. It means light

More personalized and free light usually has certain creative significance. For example, a ray of light in a dark tunnel indicates that a bright future is coming. Or in a dark room, the horrible red light outlines the face. Meaningful light is also composed of colored light.

It is not easy to master these three aspects of light. Many people can only guarantee the use of the most basic lighting. The author thinks that the functions of these three kinds of light are progressive in turn, and it is also a way to understand what is a "good" photographic work from the perspective of light.