Switching photography

I am a junior, studying image design. I also like photography and have my own small photography studio. Actually, I started to learn photography in my sophomore year.

First of all, I think photography and design belong to visual arts. The two are interlinked. Everything you study industrial design is an intangible asset for photography. Photography is not a technical activity, and the entry threshold is very low. There are only three settings of aperture shutter and iso on the camera, which is easy to understand, including high-order lighting, and it is not difficult to use technically. People say that photography is light and shadow painting. Actually, it is. So it requires modeling ability, performance ability and so on. To put it bluntly. For example, it is easy to film a person running. However, in order to express the sense of movement, a good photographic work may take a real picture of a person because the movement forms a virtual shadow or people know that the scene is a radial virtual shadow. I just want to say that photography needs artistic accomplishment, and you have studied industrial design for two years, which is actually cultivating your artistic accomplishment. These experiences will not be wasted. On the contrary, some industrial aesthetics or creative styles you have developed because of studying industrial design may be very helpful for you to establish a unique photography style. At least you have a perspective that many people don't have. By the way, Chen Man studied stage design.

Then talk about the aspect of changing majors. I studied image design, played photography in the middle, and now I study fashion design very hard (I didn't know I like fashion design until my sophomore year). I think what a person likes is the most important thing. Men are afraid of entering the wrong line of work. Once they enter a certain industry, they will live forever. If you get married, you can get divorced, and it is difficult to change careers when you enter the industry. There must be some losses now, but in exchange, it may be higher enthusiasm and happiness in the future. And if you do something with enthusiasm, you will succeed, and the probability of greater success is a geometric multiple of that of doing something with numbness.

There is also a question about going to the studio to learn photography. Went to the studio for an internship for half a month. To tell the truth, don't go to the studio if you can:

1 Everything in the studio is mass-produced. Mass production is the pursuit of profit. Most of their things are models, and a model is photographed by countless people. Don't say the same as lighting. Even the movements are the same. The requirement for photos is whitening and slimming. It's a little bad for beginners of photography, and it's easy to limit their thinking. I believe that your hobby of photography is not just pressing the shutter, but creating with the camera. General photo studios are trained as skilled workers. I'm talking about a general photo studio.

Based on my two-week study in the studio and my current experience, let's talk about it. Learning efficiency is low. Before I went to practice, I said that I had never touched the machine, but I had a certain ps ability, and I also read a lot of photographic materials online. I am half a layman. As a result, what I did in the studio for two weeks was to pull my skirt and move things. The most important job is to give people a reflector. As for my own research, I may have learned more in two nights than in a month in the studio. I suggest you find a knowledgeable person to take you to explore, which is more than ten times more efficient than going to a photo studio.

Of course, there are conditions for me to say that going to the studio is not as good as exploring by myself. This condition is that, first of all, you have certain funds in your family to allow you to buy some equipment, even if it is entry-level, it will cost a certain amount of money. The more you invest in research, the poor three-generation SLR will ruin your life. Ha ha. Then you have a certain self-study ability, and there are some people around you who have certain photography knowledge and experience to communicate with. Moreover, the problems in the studio internship may be due to special reasons such as my short time. You have to consider it according to your own situation.

Finally, I recommend you to read a book. New york photography textbook. Absolute court photography bible.

The above questions are also what I am thinking. I hope my answer is helpful to you. I'm sorry for being so verbose.