How should poor people play photography?

When a person's material wealth exceeds his spiritual wealth, it is often the beginning of tragedy, so it is safe for the poor to play photography. With the improvement of economic strength, most people believe that they can get satisfactory works through cameras. Photography and art do have many intersections. Many people think that photography is a category of art, so the most important thing in the early stage of learning photography is your judgment of beauty (of course, it will be transformed into an understanding of creative images in the later stage), and equipment and technology are not decisive factors.

Quick entry is the most economical way to learn photography.

Many beginners later felt that their progress was slow because their skills were not up to standard and they wasted a lot of time, energy and money. In essence, knowing the equipment and technology is equivalent to the writer learning grammar and rhetoric. If you don't know, it won't prevent you from writing original sentences, but it will prevent you from writing a lot for a long time.

I have always emphasized the concepts of "grammar and rhetoric". Like writing an article, many steps of photography need to start with "text composition", such as learning concepts such as exposure, focus and depth of field. Then start "making sentences". At this time, you should know what is composition, what is color application, and what are some skills of using light. Then there are short articles and gorgeous words, and you may begin to understand what spatial relationship is, or take some beautiful photos. At the beginning of writing, I will learn narrative, argumentative and epistolary writing. In other words, you should learn all kinds of shooting skills in photography, such as people, scenery, still life and so on.

Then I began to engage in my favorite creative fields, such as novels, poems, essays, scripts, reportage and various reports and summaries. In photography, you can choose to shoot reports, landscapes, advertisements or portraits, or simply visit here yourself. Photography should start with simple technical learning. If you concentrate, it will take months. You need to delve into a photo book of at least 200 pages and learn it thoroughly. If you don't understand anything, you should consult your predecessors as soon as possible.

As long as you master the technology, you can start shooting the things behind, and then continue to learn the knowledge of technology and equipment during the shooting process. Many times, it will be a long-term process, and after the technology is harsh enough, you can reach the degree you want. In addition, it needs to be clear that harsh concepts do not mean luxury and triviality. Serve your needs harshly, which may be extremely exquisite or completely simple. Understanding of equipment and technology is a bridge to the free world of photography.

But from the reality, many people can't wait, thinking that it is impossible to help directly with expensive equipment. I hope that whenever this happens, you can remember the previous sentence: "When a person's material wealth exceeds his spiritual wealth, it is often the beginning of tragedy! To learn basic skills, it is enough to read relevant textbooks. If you are a beginner, there will be many things you can't understand. It doesn't matter. Tao Yuanming said, "You study hard, but your requirements are not high. You can count what you can understand, and you can check what you can't understand repeatedly. There is no need to walk into a dead end.

When learning photography, how to choose your first camera is a matter that puzzles many people.

In fact, any camera will do, as long as the aperture shutter can be adjusted. Considering that 90% people who buy cameras for the first time are novices, I generally recommend digital monocular cameras. Digital monocular is convenient, with less consumables, and you can see the shooting effect immediately, which is very important for novices. In fact, any number of pixels will do. Usually a 5-megapixel camera is enough for you to finish the basic course in one year, and then you can buy a better camera.

This kind of lens can be used by purchasing a zoom lens that matches the camera. If there is still a budget, it is best to add a 35mm or 50mm fixed-focus lens. Fixed-focus lens is directly helpful for learning to choose aperture and control depth of field. I strongly disapprove of novices buying more cameras and lenses. If you are really hesitant, you can go to our website: www.cnphotos.net, and we will try our best to help you get rid of this idea. Of course, your first camera doesn't have to use a digital monocular. I have seen many people learn photography from side cameras, and medium film or even large film is also quite good. But the premise is that you must have a person who teaches you to shoot, and you can always ask him for advice.

However, I recommend that girls who like to travel start with small digital cameras, because most girls are not interested in technology when they first learn photography, but are sensitive to what they feel. Small digital cameras are easy to carry and can cultivate and consolidate interests. To tell the truth, many female photographers have taken photos for many years, and they are still confused about photography technology, which is normal. For boys, it is best to start with a solid technical study.

If we have to talk about extra equipment, I think the exposure meter is quite important. Because most of the photos taken by players I have seen have room for further improvement. If you are a beginner, I recommend you to buy a cheap event exposure meter, or borrow one from a friend. If you still find it difficult, it is also helpful to take a 18% gray card with you and use it to measure light frequently.

Another suggestion for beginners to save money is that you can take your 35mm camera as a big film, think more before shooting, just don't press the shutter, and try to take good photos. There are indeed many photographers who press the shutter like machine guns, but that's a shooting job, which is different from yours. Another important suggestion for serious beginners is that you must learn to use manual exposure.

Exposure is one of the important means to express photography emotion. Every stage of learning photography should use manual exposure from time to time. Speaking of beginners, I don't know what a beginner is. But according to my observation, many famous photographers in China, including those who have won many awards, are in the state of continuing their studies. Of course, that's actually what I asked myself. Every time I make a little progress, I know I'm worse.

Speaking of learning, I have to mention that photo collection is the most expensive photography investment.

It is very important to know what others have done and what they are doing now. At the same time, it is also important to know what a good photo is. You should take a good look at the photos, so that you can know how the boundaries and breakthroughs of good photos are caused. Learning the photographer's works begins with recommending his articles, but more importantly, through photos. A photo is not a photo if it is explained too much in words.

The best way to see photos is a photo album, and it is best to see the whole place. Although many articles and books about photographers contain scattered works by masters, it is strongly recommended that you look at the photographer's own photo collection. Some photographers' works can only be understood after reading the whole book, such as robert frank's The American. Before I saw the original album, I read too many introduction articles and scattered pictures, but it was completely irrelevant. After reading the photo album completely, I completely understood it.

Many photographers' works are like this, and the current photo evaluation system is still based on the performance of a single photo, which is actually a very one-sided state. There are often cheap photo albums on foreign websites. If you watch patiently, you can often buy your favorite album at a price of 20% or 30%. Run more libraries, bookstores and photography magazines. Of course, a good photo collection is not cheap. The simple way is to look for pictures on the internet. Of course, the texture of online photos is far from that of photo albums, but it's better than not seeing them.

It is very important to find the starting point of your own photography and know why you want to photograph.

If you just like cameras and don't like photography, there are actually many ways to go. Of course, what you often see is the collection of old cameras (of course, some people like to collect brand-new Leica M7 or Nikon F6, which is cool) and get satisfaction from it, which is also quite good. But obviously this is not what we want to talk about.

Most people buy cameras because they want to take pictures and take photos they like. If this road is pure, they will become photographers, so we can learn some experience from photographers. Professional photographers don't discuss equipment very much, not because they don't care about equipment, mainly because their equipment is relatively simple, and the simple reason is that they know what they want to shoot! For example, a wildlife photographer may care about what Canon lens Canon has introduced, but not about what commemorative models Leica has introduced, or whether Hasselblad will introduce a new 120 body.

I think this is very important. You should also know what you want, what kind of photos you want, under what conditions and where you will use them. I think the problem of most photographers, mainly players and some professional photographers, is that the subjects they want to shoot are too wide. It is also important to note that when I say "I want to shoot", it doesn't mean that they really shoot these subjects often.

The same is true of photographic equipment. No camera can adapt to all the subjects in the world. You must have your own starting point before you can decide what equipment to use, which is especially important for the "poor". Once you find your starting point, you will understand why your photos are different from others, and you will understand what kind of people you should look for to help you evaluate your photos.

Other gains are that photography is a very broad category, and different photography fields have different evaluation systems, so you may not rashly criticize other people's photos. Because photography is rich, you can go deep into any subject, any way, and you will succeed as long as you work hard. At the same time, you will find that apart from shooting wild animals or F 1 racing cars, your dependence on equipment is actually very small. The deeper you study the image, the easier it is to succeed.

Photography itself is an industry with great consumer demand, and it will be of great help to your photography to embark on the road of marketization as soon as possible. Of course, it is precisely because photography is a very broad category that naturally different people have different understandings of it, and I don't think that just "burning" equipment will definitely ruin the family. However, when a person's material wealth exceeds his spiritual wealth, it is often the beginning of tragedy, so it is safer for the poor to play photography!