I've always wanted to write a tutorial to guide novices who just got a camera or just have a little interest in photography. Unfortunately, there is not much time today, so I can only write a few words. This is just an outline of how to learn photography. I won't teach you how to take photos with shallow depth of field, and I won't teach you how to remove small peas from your face with PS. Because these things are very common knowledge, they are everywhere, so it is meaningless for me to repeat them. → Let me talk about a few items that I think are from high to low. What do you need if you want to learn photography and make some films that others think are good? 1. Attitude is actually the same in everything, and your attitude determines how far you can go on this road. Want to learn photography, it should be an urgent desire, not an illusion. What is an urgent desire? That is, you should immediately go online to find various photography tutorials and articles that teach you how to learn photography. Download it and watch it slowly. There are at least 200,000 words to read, and I have a general understanding of all aspects of photography. Then consider reading a classic tutorial intensively and making a machine to shoot and experience. Introduction to photography, including the basic concepts of photography, the use of cameras and basic aesthetic knowledge, is the most basic thing in the whole photography field. It's so basic that you can understand it without being taught by others, just by reading the text description. If you find that you can't fully understand after reading a lot of books, it only means that you are not suitable for photography. In the process of photography learning, at the beginning, we can only go far by our own understanding and practice. For a long time, you just need to watch some tutorials, watch some excellent works and actually shoot. Before your basic skills are solid, you don't need to communicate with others at all, and you don't need a so-called master. These are all excuses for being lazy in studying and wanting others to tell you the shortcut. If you want to improve your photography level, you must not rely on a master and others to casually say "the best setting", "exclusive method" and "eighteen tips for taking good photos". Maybe your film is better than before, but I'm afraid it will stop at this level. This level also has a name, generally called clumsy imitation. What attitude do you need? You need an attitude of active learning, digging, trying and verifying. Don't wait for others to teach you. 2, sincerity Unfortunately, you were born in an era of information explosion, and the camera is ridiculously cheap. Countless pupils throw Quan Huafu+red circle heads around. Most of the scenes you have seen have been filmed, and most of the ideas you have thought of have been tried. Most people who play photography will take selfies with their own cameras in front of the mirror, and they will also take a blurred flower, and the position of the flower is in the golden section of the picture, just like people who have attended elementary school will recite multiplication tables. So you have to realize that for a long time when you pick up the camera, everything you shoot is taken by others, and there are countless people who shoot better than you. For a long time, you don't need to show your "work" because it must have been photographed by countless people. All you have to do is to compare these films with the works of masters of the same subject, and then you will know where your level is. The movie itself can be saved or deleted. In fact, you can find that the bar team rarely posts frequently. Send a lotus today, an old hair tomorrow and a limited edition instant noodle the day after tomorrow. In the voice of opposing "posting and deleting posts", many people said that they must not shoot bad films. In fact, bars have also made bad films, but most bars will sincerely realize that this film is bad and eventually delete it instead of sending it out. 3. Having money, leisure and mobility, and a cruel fact is that the equipment is so advanced and there are so many rich people, so that some scenes you shot with tens of thousands of equipment are just a general level, and you can't shoot a fierce conflict. For example, you can't go to Ukraine to watch the exchange of fire between the two sides, although you may win a prize by shooting blindly with your mobile phone. Many scenes, such as a small flower, you shoot with your mobile phone, and the effect is the level of hehe, but if you change it to a middle frame, it will immediately change qualitatively. For photography, equipment is as important as technology. You need some excellent equipment to help express your creativity. Only excellent equipment can make you feel some effects and creativity. These are inseparable from financial support. . There are many differences in equipment that you can't make up with technology. This is the meaning of good equipment. Some people may think that a master can make a masterpiece with a mobile phone or the bottom of a beer bottle, but unfortunately, you are not a master, 99.99% of people are not masters, and there is a 99.99% chance that you and other 99.99% people will never become masters. Besides, have you ever seen a master really make a masterpiece with his mobile phone? It's just self-consolation. You really need a good set of equipment. If you have no money, please try to make money. In addition to a good set of equipment, you need to spend enough time shooting, taking pens and notebooks at home, and taking pictures of old people in the street, which will never produce decent works. Because there are not enough subjects. You need to spend a lot of time shooting and practicing outdoors, and meet all kinds of scenes, lights and weather. Bars used to be used to shoot stars. In winter, the cold wind blows on the top of the mountain for half a night, and some people stay alone in the country. You need enough time and action. 4, talent and aesthetics I think that talented people are a minority, and aesthetics can also be cultivated. As long as you work hard enough, take more photos, see more, reflect more and study more, you can take very good photos. First of all, people who have the initiative will find that the best photography textbook is the textbook of New York Photography Institute. Download a refined version, you will find it and spend a week reading it. Some parts of the film can be skipped. Download a DSLR digital SLR photography Bible and spend another week reading it. Read it all. Read the manual of your camera-if you don't have a camera, go to Camera official website and download one-read it completely. After reading these three books, I will actually take pictures and get familiar with the various functions of the camera. Most importantly, think about why the camera should set this function-for example, Pentax's machine has trap focusing. What is this for? Think about it.
Find some books that teach you aesthetic composition. In fact, it is mentioned in new york and the Bible. You can find another book devoted to this, similar to photographic composition. Read a book while taking pictures, and spend some time verifying and practicing the theory inside. Find some books that teach you how to take pictures, use light and match light. Maybe you haven't flashed it yet, but it is still a good reference. It's like a hot boots diary. When you are familiar with these books, you should prepare a quasi-professional equipment such as digital SLR to practice. -He won't be more expensive than the Iphone! You don't need to take the initiative to ask questions when you encounter any problems, just search how to solve them. Generally, others have encountered similar problems and have solutions. When your SLR shutter number exceeds 30,000, you can consider choosing your photos and see how they compare with others. What do you call choice? Take at least 1500 at a time, and then delete 1450. Delete if there is a slight flaw, or delete if it is not wonderful enough. Even if there are only five left in the end, it is still a great receipt. When you finally take a few photos every time you go out, delete more than half and keep less than half, you can consider sending a picture online for everyone to see.