How to learn photography and ps?

Many people think that "photography" is a kind of "technology", which is not accurate enough but makes sense. Just like you want to learn to cook, you must first strengthen your technical training. Only when you make fried rice with eggs into a fascinating meal one day can you be regarded as a "cultural inheritor" or an artist.

Photography technology is not complicated, especially in the digital age, technology has lowered the threshold a lot. You don't have to spend a lot of money to buy a multi-function SLR and micro-single. In addition, mobile phone photography is getting better and better, and mobile phones are also good photographic equipment. But for learners, we must first understand the basic knowledge about shooting, such as: what are the three elements of aperture, shutter and ISO, and how they affect the completion of exposure. The same parameter combination can also achieve accurate exposure, but there are many differences. When you learn this, you will know how to realize a certain picture when you want it.

Of course, the basic knowledge also includes focal length, focusing, focusing mode, metering mode, white balance ... all of which take some time and patience to understand and digest. There may be many people who think that these are the thresholds of photography. In fact, just like winning the lottery first, this threshold is just like 2 yuan for buying lottery tickets, which is a fart threshold. The real threshold is comparable to other parts of winning the lottery.

02 study room lighting

Friends who know a little about photography must have heard a saying: photography is the art of running out of light. This "run out" doesn't mean running out of money. Don't do stupid things like burning equipment again. "Using light" means the use of light, including natural light and artificial light. You must learn from them if you want to keep climbing the heights of photography. Shun light, backlight, side light and side backlight are all well understood, and there are some proper terms: Rembrandt light, Paramount cloth light (butterfly light) and so on.

Light intensity (output power), distance and softness are three elements of light, and learning them is as important as learning exposure. Because only by knowing this, when you want to shoot a certain picture, can you have an idea and a prediction in your mind.

Learning natural light is relatively simple, and it is necessary to understand the illumination differences in different seasons, different weather, different time periods and different regions. Because it will have a great impact on the shooting. Many times, you need actual shooting to constantly strengthen your understanding of this aspect. You need to accumulate experience. Reading books is not enough.

Lighting systems, like cameras and lenses, also have rich choices and collocations. Different light shapes need different lighting accessories and a good understanding of their respective characteristics. This is also the category of technology. With technology, we can gradually understand how to use them to create and express. Learning artificial light is more expensive and more difficult. Especially when shooting in a complex environment, there will be different schemes for different needs in different environments, and this part also needs continuous accumulation of theory and practice to learn and improve.

Learn the latest technology

The later stage is a very important part of photography. Without photography, it can't be done later. It has been like this since the invention of photography, but it was not done on the computer at that time. Which is PS.

The teaching content in the later stage of study is very rich, and there is a lot of room for choice, whether from books or video courses. This has an annoying place: the teaching level is high or low, the teaching content is good or bad, and it is difficult to make it clear whether the teaching method is suitable for you. ...

I did take a lot of detours in this respect, but after a period of painful exploration, it will suddenly become clear.

04 Aesthetics Promotion

When it comes to "aesthetics", everyone has a say, absolutely. However, not everyone has the aesthetic ability in a certain professional field, especially in the art field. I may be scolded for saying this, but I still want to emphasize that this is the reality. It's as disgusting as not knowing how to cook at all and telling you to stew for a few more minutes after eating.

The aesthetics of art has a threshold, which comes from everyone's talent and also from long-term edification and tempering. Usually, the more artistic we are, the more we will deviate from the public. If we want to improve our aesthetics, we should not confine ourselves to that part of the field that is widely accepted by the public, otherwise the aesthetics will be trapped by the public.