Is it easy to learn photography? What are the skills and precautions?

Nowadays, many photographers like to split colors into monochrome or black-and-white works to highlight their works. This is a good method, but once you watch more such works, your sensitivity to color will also decrease. This is not a good thing.

Next, let's take a look at the precautions for getting started with photography.

1. Operation and control of learning equipment. Since you want to learn photography, it is necessary to have a digital camera with basic functions. Although the function is simple, you must understand all kinds of functions and actual operation, and put all seemingly simple functions (ISO, aperture, shutter, exposure compensation, etc. ) put it into practice, but it can also influence each other and bring out many skills. When all the camera functions can be operated smoothly, we can find out the best way to shoot in the future.

2. Learn to look at pictures. This is what many people don't understand. Most people look at pictures systematically to see whether they like them, whether the model is beautiful, whether the figure is good enough, whether the scenery is beautiful, whether the clothes are special and so on. But this is the wrong way! I suggest that during this period (try to look at other people's pictures when you have time), the works of so-called domestic photographers or artists are often not as good as those of some unknown photographers abroad. Just look at those works that are called masters at home, and those are foreign. Learn as much as possible, diversify your works, put aside the names of the masters you have heard, and find out the works of photographers you think you like very much.

* Portrait photos, don't look at those beauty photos, look at some models taken by ordinary people. This kind of photos often need more efforts in composition and light and shadow control. Look at other people's pictures and learn about their composition, shooting angle, possible aperture and focal length. Look at the direction of light and shadow, understand the possibility and arrangement of the other party's use of light, and even what equipment may be used, as well as the shooting time and so on. Finally, there is the arrangement of colors on the screen, which is more easily overlooked. Color is also a necessary item in photography. Through other people's works, we can also see the photographer's arrangement of colors.

* From the perspective of creation or documentary, whether the work is intentionally arranged or unintentionally obtained. Documentary photography needs a lot of luck, but when there are many good works, it also shows that photographers have a very strong photographic vision. Creation is to look at it from all angles and understand the ability that every photographer can control.

Nowadays, many photographers like to split colors into monochrome or black-and-white works to highlight their works. This is a good method, but once you watch more such works, your sensitivity to color will also decrease. This is not a good thing, so when studying, color works are still the direction of efforts.

* It's good for you to absorb as many diverse styles as possible.

3. Learn composition and theory. The more works you watch, the more you need to learn the rules of composition and related theories when you enter the actual shooting stage. There are many such books on the market, you can learn to imitate them. In the study of composition, some people will say that it is unnecessary, but they must learn. Good composition can make the work more acceptable to the audience. Although it is not absolute, it is the experience gained after statistical analysis. Then it will be transformed into the law of composition that we believe in until we can blend in naturally, and then there is no need for so-called composition.

But before that stage comes, the rules of composition still need to be learned. Of course, for theoretical things, you can look at some books by truly internationally recognized photographers. There are many books in foreign languages, and many people in China can translate them and even become their own theories. The suggestion is to directly translate foreign documents. It is convenient to translate the parts that you don't understand now, so don't be confused by those scattered Chinese documents.

4. Learn to adapt to and control light and shadow. From the moment you see it, slowly, you will understand the most important composition in the image: there is; It is certain that where there is light, there is shadow. What kind of light will produce what kind of shadow is certain. After understanding light, I began to learn how to control light, from natural light to artificial light, from hard light to soft light, to understand and use it, and to distribute light with the picture I want, so that light and shadow can be easily controlled by myself and the best image can be easily obtained.

5. Learn darkroom system. This is the last part of the process. The image records all the original color light in the camera, and then enters the computer darkroom. At this point, it is my ultimate control over the work. In order to make the image more perfect, the necessary post-processing cannot be reduced. From the simplest brightness and contrast, to the adjustment of color temperature, even the control of high and low light exposure area, or various synthesis, beauty editing, typesetting and so on. , all need to learn. Although the work does not necessarily have editing, composition and other actions, if the work needs to be expressed in this way, these are also a method of image processing, so it is necessary to study at this stage.

The above is an introduction about how beginners learn photography and the precautions for getting started with photography. I hope it helps you!