I like painting and photography very much.

There are many foreign photographers who started to take photos in high school and became famous internationally in their twenties, such as the photographer who took the poster of "The City of Curtain Light". So I am very supportive of you.

You must have a camera to learn photography. Whether you buy a used car or a new car, whether you play film or digital. Whether it is a SLR, a micro-single, or even a card, you can start playing. You'll never learn to swim without going into the water.

You have a wrong idea that you can get a job by learning something, and then you can make a living by it. This is basically impossible. Many friends around me study art as waiters, chemistry as salesmen, graphic design as medicine sellers, architecture as hospitals, dance as catwalks and law as Taobao sellers.

What a wonderful world it is if you set a goal and work hard to achieve it. Unfortunately, the world is not like this.

My advice is not to think about anything, and spend the least money to buy a camera and start shooting. If you have any questions you don't understand, come back to books, videos, materials and people to ask. This kind of learning is the most active and effective.

In order to make you avoid detours, my personal suggestions are as follows:

1, the camera is a black box that can record light and shadow. No matter how good the manufacturer says and how versatile it is, the camera is such a thing. Since/kloc-was invented more than 0/00 years ago, it has been such a thing. Buy a second-hand camera and the cheapest lens, usually a hair band (so-called dog head) or a small spittoon (50MM 1.8) to start your dream. The price of second-hand equipment mainly depends on the color. Don't buy things you don't understand for cheap. A set won't cost much more than a good mobile phone. For example, D80, I started with a second-hand D80.

Buy a domestic flash, such as Yongnuo 560, which is no longer controlled by natural light. A flat cable, a flash synchronous line and a cheap but sturdy tripod should not exceed 1000 yuan. You don't need and you'd better not invest in equipment for a long time until your work starts to be praised by others, or you have enough money and knowledge to use better equipment. Good photographic equipment is expensive, but poor people have cheap ways to play, so DIY gadgets are more interesting.

3. Download all kinds of photo albums, collect all your favorite photos, find the author of the photos, learn all kinds of creative games, and shoot all kinds of people, animals, streets, small still lives, classmates' expressions, people or things around you. After learning knowledge and software, don't be lazy to give things to intelligent software.

4, carefully observe the light, observe life, try to take pictures of what you see, or take pictures of your own ideas, ask questions if you can't take pictures, and find ways to solve them yourself.

5. Find a photographer you think you like best and imitate his works.

6. Travel, or wander around your city with a camera and treat your city as a strange place.

7. Always bring a camera, even if you don't take pictures. If you want to shoot, shoot at once. If you don't want to shoot, don't take it out.

Learn from real masters, world-recognized masters, and only learn from masters. Don't limit yourself to photography, literature, art and sculpture are all areas that can be concerned. Usually, we should listen to other people's opinions modestly but carefully.

Find a group of people with the same hobbies. They can be your classmates, your parents, even a group of strangers, or even fans older than your parents. They can be your role models, your teachers and your students (it is easier to remember relevant knowledge when teaching others). The advantage of making more friends is that you don't have to buy a swimming pool if you want to go swimming, just have a friend with a swimming pool.

10 Last but not least, always remember the impulse to learn photography for the first time. When you are ten or twenty years later, when you are surrounded by all kinds of troubles, when you stop looking at the world with fresh eyes and start to feel numb. As long as I remember my dream now, my heart will still beat, my blood will burn and my eyes will shine, so it is really a kind of happiness that others envy.

Give you a supplementary question: some photographers don't know PS, some photographers haven't studied art, and some people haven't even graduated from high school, but these have not prevented people from liking his works.

Besides, we must learn English well. Too many good materials are in English. Without a certain language foundation, we can basically only be photography assistants or second-rate photographers. Just kidding, learning English will be much more convenient, especially when learning the latest knowledge.

This is not only for you to see, but also for me to share.