Can entry-level photography start directly from landscape photography? Does landscape photography mean that there is no theme and it is difficult to be elegant? Thank you very much

For all arts, scenery is a big category. Even music, there are symphonic poems and paintings, "depicting" the beach scenery and so on. Photography certainly can't resist this temptation. Most of the films about scenery consumption must have been there. There are millions of photographers in China. It is estimated that more than 85% of them are mainly landscape photography, and the rest will set foot in it. Landscape photography seems to be the photographer's first course. Some photographers even think that landscape is the easiest subject to start with and the easiest to produce results. Many photographers really rely on scenery and scenery; However, from a clear point of view, it is this convenience that restricts the development of many people. In fact, landscape photography is a very professional category, which requires very high financial resources, energy and intelligence of photographers, which is not easy for ordinary people to do. Taking landscape photography as an introductory course or simplifying it into a general theme has great disadvantages.

First, cultivate complacency. It is not difficult to take some beautiful scenery photos, what's more, popular groups can draw gourds now. Ordinary photographers can easily get a sense of accomplishment by playing landscape photography, which can naturally inspire some people's self-confidence, but more people are afraid of being complacent and misjudging themselves. I have movie friends around me, and I have only been engaged in photography for two years. I sometimes accompany famous photographers to create, occasionally take some beautiful scenery and win one or two prizes. I was on cloud nine, thinking that I had made a success, but I didn't even have the ability to create independently. It is sad that a person loses his self-knowledge and the opportunity for progress. Although this case is typical, there are many similar phenomena, which is why most photographers stop at a low level.

Second, deepen the misunderstanding of photography. With the development of science and technology, the degree of camera automation is getting higher and higher, and the technical components of photography are getting less and less. Now it is generally believed that photography is extremely easy and anyone who wants to do it can do it well. The pleasure and simple way of landscape photography just encourages this understanding. People who don't know anything about photography occasionally take a broken camera and happen to meet beautiful scenery. With a click, you may be able to take a picture that looks comfortable. Then he said to people: photography is as simple as that, so can I. I don't know how wronged those professional photographers are at this time. How many discerning people in the world can tell the difference between "professional image" and "public image"! Under the impact of a lot of beautiful "scenery", photography had to go up in smoke.

Third, it lures photography to mediocrity. A truly creative photographer will not be completely confined to the subject matter, but will be able to give full play to his intellectual and technical advantages and create something different for different shooting projects. On the other hand, the current public landscape photography lacks professionalism and professional operation mode, and rarely exerts the photographer's intelligence. To put it bluntly, most of them rely on the right time, right place and eating-because they met beautiful scenery, they took beautiful photos. In the overwhelming landscape photos, imaginative and creative works are rare, and more are the same things-either the morning light of terraced fields or the autumn colors on the dam. It is not so much artistic creation as the competition between photographic equipment and scenic spots. Shallow kitsch can only accelerate the mediocrity of photography.

Fourth, waste photographic resources. China is rich in human resources for photography, but it's a pity that everyone is crowded on one road to shoot scenery that doesn't make much sense. Photography is much more meaningful and valuable than those useless scenery films to record the events of the times and our lives. A lot of things will disappear forever if we don't shoot them now. If most things of this era are lost in this way, it should be a shame for this generation of photographers. There are thousands of movies thrown at the same landscape, producing the same landscape, but here, we turn a blind eye to our own lives and few people record them. Isn't this a great waste of photographic resources?