Quickly improve photography skills

Lead: Many novice photographers want to improve their photography skills in a short time, so how to improve their photography skills quickly? Here I answer this question for you.

Quickly improve photography skills 1. Always have a camera in your pocket.

How many times have I tried to put my camera in my bag, but I finally gave it up because I brought too many things? Even because the digital SLR camera itself is too heavy to do?

That's understandable. Where must you stay for a long time? Who wants to carry such a heavy thing around? This is understandable, but I know better that the photos will not wait for you, because I have experienced too much? If I had known this, I would have come with my camera on my back? This situation.

As a photographer, having a camera in your pocket is one of the best things. I have a portable card machine that I carry with me every day. This made me find more fun in photography, and began to find new fun in photography, recording more life with photography.

This small portable camera eventually became my main camera. You don't need to do the same thing as me, but you'd better have a portable camera and carry it with you.

Summary: The photos won't wait for you. When your SLR is not available, there is a portable camera to fill in the blank.

Second, the background is as important as the subject.

There must be a subject when taking pictures. But the subject is rarely lonely, and there will be backstage waiting for you to solve it. From your viewfinder, you will find your subject first. The first thing to do at this time is not to press the shutter button, but to pay attention to your background at the same time.

For the background, you need to choose one: 1 as part of your work and add something to your work; 2. Get rid of him and exclude him from your frame. Suppose you are chatting with a friend. You don't want other people's voices to distract you, do you? So, why let the background distract your subject?

I met this man on the bus. Very interesting. After some conversation (talking too much, he was drunk and the whole car was watching), I told him that I would take a portrait of him. While preparing to shoot, I was thinking about how to see from the photos that everyone was paying attention to him. At first, I didn't notice the guy on the left, but he changed his sitting posture and leaned back in the chair, which further increased my theme, so I was glad to add him to my photo.

Conclusion: Observe your background carefully and pay attention to every object, every line and every color. Does this disturb or improve what I'm trying to focus on?

Third, light is very important.

What's the first thing you notice? Have you noticed your model or other objects to shoot? Well, that's good, but when it comes to photography, you will definitely use light, so you should train your ability to use light.

Did you notice that the light in the room suddenly changed? Because someone turned on the light. Have you found that the same scenery has different feelings because of cloudy days or dawn? When you see the tough light on the model's face, is it under the direct sunlight at noon?

There are many examples, but you must force yourself to pay attention to the surrounding light when shooting. This photo is on my way to the bank. It is cloudy. Although I didn't take this photo at the bank, I know what will happen. The light is soft and the clouds reflect beautifully. Just look up and take this picture

Summary: Pay more attention to light, light quality, shadow and shape when you start taking pictures.

Fourth, good photos are like wine becoming more and more precious.

Some good photos come from luck, and you don't even notice them. Your best work may be tomorrow's work, but your old work may shine like gold.

The fact is that you may not know the value of your photos until you have a more mature eye. I started shooting ten years ago, but I didn't expect to have today's achievements.

This photo was taken ten years ago, of course, only a few can be found in a lot of photos. Gold nuggets? But who can say it's worthless? Coupled with the passage of time, you won't be linked to photos because of feelings, so you can judge photos more objectively. Sometimes I feel that I missed the opportunity to shoot because of my old photos!

Summary: Your photos are like wine. They become more and more precious after a certain year.

Fifth, shoot with your heart

You know your equipment, you know what kind of aperture and focal length your equipment has, when to adjust ISO, and you know how to allocate it correctly. When you see your photos, you should feel that you have not done your best.

Photography is not only about his appearance, but also about his content and his own feelings.

This photo shows me in a dark place.

Here, I feel the family spirit.

Conclusion: If you shoot your content, your image will be stronger. In addition, it is also a good way to connect people's emotions with photos.

Sixth, why do you want to contact photography?

Not everyone comes into contact with photography for one reason. Some people do it for money, some for fame and fortune, some for hobbies, and some just for recording people and things around them.

Questioning your own motives may make your photography path clearer. For me, photography is the way to make my dreams clear. For example, in this picture, I seem to see a hero who is about to take on life bravely, although in reality this is just a person going to the seaside. That's why I take pictures: it helps me to go deeper into my fantasy world.

? Summary: It's your turn. Why did you take pictures? What kind of photography attracts you so much?

Seven, creativity is more important than equipment.

A friend, buying and selling his own equipment, lost a lot. It's not what kind of equipment you have, but what you do with it.

A creative brain can dig deeper into the use of your equipment, especially when the equipment is limited, which will force you to think of new ways to use your equipment better. For example, if we had wings, we wouldn't have invented airplanes.

Summary: No matter what the equipment is, find new ways to use it. Too much equipment will kill your imagination more easily.

Eight, put aside technology

I think you should learn how to expose, how to concentrate better, and then let it go. I think it's better to spend too much time arguing about how the photos are a bit blurred, or to ponder some photography tips.

Some representative photos in the world, many of which are imaged. Soft? Yes, some of them are even vague. Some even exposed the sky, and there are many other problems.

The quality of the photo itself is only the imperfection of the equipment technology, please ignore it. There is a concept in Japan that perfection itself is imperfect.

So, if your focus is 10000% accurate and the settings such as white balance are correct, you can focus more on how to make the photos better and better.

? Conclusion: Put down the technology and focus on the emotion and content in the photo.

Nine, create photos of infected people, not just taking pictures.

When shooting, are you just taking pictures? In other words, you just copied the mirror image in front of you through the lens; Or at the moment when you lift the camera, your thoughts have begun to work through the lens, and finally prompted you to create a photo?

If you want to be a photographer, you must know how to create photos instead of simply taking photos. Anyone with a camera knows this shutter action. You should try your best to create infection identification photos.

Once I was sitting quietly in a coffee shop, writing something, and suddenly I saw this fluttering skirt. For an instant, I felt like I was in heaven, as if an angel was right in front of me. I'm wearing this skirt (yes, a girl's skirt, how boring ~ haha! ) I created this photo with this theme to express my feelings of recreating it.

Summary: Think carefully like a painter before taking pictures, and try to create photos that infect people.

Ten, break the routine and make your photos stand out.

Imagine a beautiful van driving on the road. The soothing sound represents the good performance of the car. There are children laughing in the air conditioner, GPS, window and back seat. Everything is so beautiful. Suddenly when the car turned the corner, an annoying accident happened and the car hit the wall.

It all happened so suddenly that no one expected an accident. There is a sign on the bus that says: You can't expect it to come. Now, this is not only a commercial advertisement for vans, but also a safety sign in people's minds.

This sign will leave a deep impression on people, because it takes time to establish a model of van advertising in people's minds, and people have broken this model and linked the sign of van commercial advertising with the reminder of accidents. This unconventional way will benefit us a lot.

You can apply the same principle to your photos. You can first create a routine picture in your mind, and then break the routine in your mind. How many pictures of palm trees have you seen since birth? I've seen a lot. In order to make my photo stand out, I decided to use the shadow of the tree behind me as the foreground. The tree in front of me took the middle part and the other two trees were connected in parallel. This makes the painting look dull, doesn't it? This is a way to break away from convention.