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Mary's career

Ma Rui comes from Dabie Mountain in Anhui Province. A few years ago, he was a poor student and was short of money, but this did not prevent him from being obsessed with photography. Because of criticizing some wrong ideas, he initially defined photography: good photos come from the most expensive and high-end photographic equipment, which made him spare no effort to spend a lot of money on expensive photographic equipment. But after a long time, he suddenly realized that this was a big mistake, and many people who thought like him were still stubborn. What is the truth? The pursuit of interests by photographic equipment manufacturers makes high-end technology more and more applied to photographic equipment. There are many kinds of equipment-photographers passively bear the false values brought by the technology of the times-and if you want to take good photos, you have to spend more money on higher-end and more expensive equipment and accessories. Quan Huafu, larger ISO, higher effective pixels, 300mmf/2.8 expensive lens and so on-some people even think that all these together can directly shoot good light and shadow works, and these ideas are all wet. Things are happening according to the wishes of equipment manufacturers, and they are getting worse and worse. People's creativity is enslaved by equipment, people's wallets are occupied by a large proportion of purchase plans, and photographers become slaves to photographic equipment. "The threshold for photography is too high!" This situation makes people who want to get involved in photography discouraged.

wake up

When Mari woke up from the foolish idea of chasing expensive equipment, he deeply felt that in the photography circle, third-rate photographers were comparing equipment, second-rate photographers were fighting for technology, and first-rate photographers were silently showing their ideas. Therefore, he began to say "no" to old ideas. He explained that the best body and the best lens may not produce the best works, but creativity and emotion are the most important. Photographers can take great photos with cheap photographic equipment as long as they make good use of their thoughts and emotions and present their emotions and creativity to people. The "poor student equipment" he advocated greatly lowered the threshold of becoming a professional photographer, and allowed more people to start to have their own photographer dreams with cheap equipment on the premise of saving money. His concern made us poor students who are passionate about photography and those around us who were previously discouraged by the high cost of equipment purchase begin to learn and master a series of shooting skills with him.

Ma Rui, who is studying in poverty, is troubled by the contradiction between the dream of an expensive photographer and the economic situation. In recent years, he has been looking for a good way to reduce the cost of equipment and make up for the difference in imaging effect caused by the difference in equipment quality with knowledge and wisdom.

Jieyuan photography

When Mari/Kloc-0 was 0/0 years old, he passed a crossroads and a middle-aged man asked him to take a picture. After that, he was full of curiosity about photography, but suffered from poor economic conditions. At that time, he could only have illusions. Before becoming a professional photographer, Mr. Marry was a designer and a school teacher. With these material foundations, he began to specialize in photography. I used to be a freelance photographer/photographer, taking photos for Newsweek, New Zhejiang Merchants, Taizhou Merchants, Doing Business in the World, Youth Daily, International Tea News and other publications, as well as TV media and online media.

On his photographic journey, he devoted all his energy to the practice and research of photography. In the meantime, I have gone through some detours and accumulated rich experience. In his long career, he found that how to express the feelings of photos is a weak link in the industry, but what equipment to use for shooting is always a problem that puzzles photographers and even professional photographers.