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How to improve your photography level?

Whether you know nothing about photography before or have made great achievements, whether you improve your photography skills in order to become an amateur photographer or a professional photographer for a living, we will all have a curse.

For any outstanding person who has made achievements in photography, the most important thing is to develop your "eyesight", that is, learn to observe. You must have seen some beautiful photos: "How I wish I could take such photos!" " "But if you just look at it, you can't improve your photography skills.

When you see a beautiful photo, can you tell why it is beautiful? Can you tell me how the authors of these works took these photos to make them so radiant? Of course, sometimes newspapers and magazines will tell you the brand and lens of the camera used to take these photos, and even the aperture and film used. These are technical details, but they are not helpful for you to take good photos. Just as you know the names of the pigments and brushes that Leonardo da Vinci used to paint, you can't paint & gt famous paintings like that.

In the process of photography, the most important thing is to know what to pursue.

After absorbing what should be pursued in photos over time, you will begin to have your own methods and opinions on how to observe and absorb the beauty of the world around you. This ability and skill to discover the beautiful scenery around the world is called "photographer's vision".

There are three principles here. As long as you pay attention to these three principles, you will soon find that you can watch, analyze and evaluate a beautiful photo in a new way. More importantly, you will start to observe the world with new standards and new ways, so as to grab your lens with new eyes.

These three principles are: the theme you want to express+an eye-catching protagonist+a concise and clear picture.