How to grow into a master photographer

Many photographers take pictures at first just to "record". Maybe it's someone's birthday, maybe it's a pet at home, simply patting what you like. Everything starts like this. If you don't teach people, you will naturally enter the next stage-beauty.

Photographers in this period probably really have lenses.

2. Beauty

People who shoot for a long time will surely find out, "Why do people shoot better? Therefore, the photographer will change from a simple "recording" to an effort to make the recording "beautiful". Because photography begins to touch more beautiful things, it has a more beautiful perspective, and it is also the beginning of composition and photography life. But only beauty has its limits. When composition and life are not enough to interpret the picture in the heart, people will enter the next process-technology.

Photographers in this period may hope that what they shoot is as good-looking as those who are better at shooting around them.

3. Technology

Shooting the same thing in the same place at the same time may be caused by the majors of "equipment" and "technology". At this stage, photographers will learn many photography skills that ordinary people are not familiar with, and increase the interpretation options of their photos with equipment corresponding to their needs.

identify

Beauty, technology, equipment and life are all in place. It is natural to take the photos you want in your heart and get the recognition of the people you want. Some people start to become professionals, amateurs or take part in various competitions. This is a certain degree of self-affirmation process, and it is also the only way for most people. People who have experienced it will enter the next stage-original intention/self.

Photographers in this period either want to imitate a professional or create their own style.

5. Original intention

Photography, like any skill, will eventually return to the original point, because it is a process of self-exploration. Photographers may encounter a bottleneck and get the recognition they want. Either way, they will return to their original motives. That's the purest and most unique place for every photographer. What are we? Why take pictures?

At this time, the photographer may not run around with one eye on his back, nor insist on technology and equipment, but begin to extend to the level of mind and life. He may have shot the same as when he first started school, but in fact he has gained a little more experience in the previous steps, and the application of technology is no longer stiff, so he becomes natural and lives.

6. idea

The last step of all photographers must be the idea, which is also the place where absoluteness makes every photographer different. In fact, there are only a few big brands in the world, and art will only make people move, but only the photographer's good faith will make people change.

People who have reached this point begin to understand what they want to accomplish through photography and what they want to influence. Their works, lives and ideas will be combined to give the audience the information they want to convey. This is the last step. Photographers may not need to take pictures either.

Finally, a wise saying of Confucius is presented: "The knower is not as good as the knower, and the knower is not as good as the musician." . 」