What should I learn in mobile photography?

Mobile phone photography, in addition to self-timer, leisure photography, taking a photo of a trip here when traveling, what else can you take? With the increasingly powerful camera function, mobile phones can also take special effects photos such as slow door, time-lapse photography, panoramic photos, macro, double exposure and so on. In addition, if you master some photography knowledge and composition skills, you won't lose your SLR when you take photos with your mobile phone.

1, basic operation

The camera of the mobile phone also has certain control performance, especially the automatic shooting mode of the mobile phone. Photographers can adjust the shutter speed, ISO, white balance and other parameters independently according to the needs of the shooting environment. In addition, it is also important to be familiar with the use of focusing to measure the light of the picture. For example, if you measure light in the dark part of the focus, the resulting picture will be exposed; By measuring the light in the bright part of the picture, the exposure of the focused picture is dark. Familiarity with the basic operation and photometry principle of mobile phone photography is the basis of photography learning.

2. Composition and framing

Composition determines the soul of a photo. Why does the photo seem to lack the theme and can't impress the viewer? A big factor is composition. The ability of composition and framing that a photographer should have is by no means something you can have by reading a few composition posts on the Internet or reading a book on photography composition. The composition rules in the book are universal, but the photos taken must be the same. Therefore, in addition to learning the basic composition methods, photographers need to train their own aesthetic ability, observation ability, selection ability and color recognition ability, think more and cultivate their own opinions, so as to integrate their unique perspectives and opinions into the same photo.

3. Post-processing

Numerous post-production softwares for mobile phones make the post-processing of mobile phone photography quick and convenient. Beginners of photography often make several mistakes in the early and late contact, such as blindly using filters or special effects, which leads to heavy loss of photo details; If you don't know what's wrong with the photo, you will blindly adjust various parameters later, and the final effect will be miserable.

I always think that post-processing has one of the biggest principles: to better show the original color of photos and make them closer to what people see. There are probably only three problems that are most likely to occur in the early shooting of photos: the theme is not prominent enough, the exposure is not in place, and the composition is uncomfortable. It is far more important to find out what is wrong with the photo in advance and then choose the later APP to adjust and modify it. Therefore, it is very important to establish the idea of post-processing.

4. Aesthetic improvement

Many people think that learning photography is good equipment, that is, learning composition and understanding PS skills. However, when you have all these things, you may not be able to take good photos. Because it is not these things that determine the quality of a photo, but the person who took it. Only a photographer with good aesthetic ability can take good-looking photos. If we blindly pursue equipment and apply traditional composition methods in photography learning without paying attention to the improvement of our own aesthetic power, we will put the cart before the horse.

What is photography aesthetics? Everyone's understanding and standards of beauty are unique and have their own advantages. You like this, I like that, and everything you think is beautiful can be broadly called your aesthetics. Aesthetics, like values, has a lot to do with what everyone sees, reads and experiences. Therefore, to develop good photographic aesthetic habits and quality, we can read books related to aesthetics, appreciate excellent photographic works, and cultivate reading habits and thinking habits.

Mobile phones are just tools for learning photography. Through mobile phone photography, we can deeply understand the basic laws of photography, composition and framing, and aesthetic cultivation. This is a field worth learning about mobile phone photography.