How to learn photography and color photos (or what kind of photos

The first step: lay a solid technical foundation.

Let's not talk about styles, colors and ideas. Consolidating the technical foundation is the first step. In any case, it is an insurmountable threshold and the foundation of the foundation. This is very important. Same old advice. Many novices are not worried. When I officially decided to learn PS eight years ago, I repeatedly compared more than 30 versions of a photo in order to hone the basic foundation, and I constantly realized that the effect brought by a little change was poor. So after I have a solid technology, I can use it flexibly.

The second step: first establish the late thinking, and then start to adjust.

Get the photos, and don't rush to get started later. At first glance, you should learn to sort out your later thoughts, that is, what is wrong with a photo. The so-called late stage is more to make up for the shortcomings in the early stage of shooting.

1, let's see if it's a little underexposed or overexposed. If so, then the first step is to increase or decrease the exposure to make it look more comfortable and in line with visual aesthetics. How much to add or subtract at least is a personal aesthetic problem. There is no need to unify standards, learn to establish your own personality. This is the first step.

2. When the exposure problem is solved, let's look at the composition problem. Do subtraction first and see where it is redundant. It is an element that has nothing to do with the theme of the whole photo. If you can cut it out, you can cut it out without hesitation, without losing proportion and beauty. There is a problem of visual balance in the picture. If the cutting loses the sense of visual balance, it will not be worth the loss. Therefore, we must pay attention to the elements of visual balance when cutting photos.

3. After completing the above two steps, you can formally enter the following topic: the adjustment of color and light. My personal habit is to adjust the light first, and then adjust the color. Dimming is to find the visual line of light, whether it is sunny or cloudy. The light of each photo forms a visual line, which is also the guiding line of the whole photo. This light is not necessarily visible light, and the overlap between light and dark is also light. The line formed by the main object itself belongs to a kind of light. For beginners, it is not only the key to shooting, but also the key to the later stage. After finding the light, adjust all the photo elements around the main line of the light, where the light highlights and where the light darkens. There may be newcomers here who will ask where it is bright and where it is dark. I can only say that this is a matter of personal aesthetics and style, and there is no way to customize the standard. The third part of later learning is technology, and the seventh part is artistic aesthetics beyond technology.

4, the last step should be to adjust the color, and the color adjustment is not beyond recognition. In principle, photography is always a realistic art, that is, you can't change the original color of an object, such as a forest that was originally green, and you changed it to blue, which is unreasonable. However, it is ok to darken the emerald a little to make it look less eye-catching. Color adjustment needs to be adjusted separately in different regions. I often see a lot of film friends mixing colors in batches. When the lake is blue, the wooden boats on the lake are also blue. It always looks strange. While making the blue sky bluer, we can't make the ground bluer, so the color adjustment in the later period must be adjusted in different regions and perfected with adjusting brushes.