What do you need to prepare before learning photography?

Nowadays, unpreparedness is very popular. There is a plausible excuse, saying: improvise on the spot!

So how sure are you? Don’t shrug and tell me: I am sorry~

For photography, you must cherish every opportunity, because neither the subject nor the photographer can be repeated.

Meet and communicate with the subject: You need to understand the subject’s situation, his or her hobbies, appearance, temperament, and conversation. Use the photographer’s keen eye to discover and adjust your shooting plan. At the same time, you need to give them confidence. If you think to yourself: Damn, why do you still need to take pictures with such a shabby appearance?... Damn it, you will definitely not be able to take good photos with this kind of mentality. ( D6 v3 e/ W6 D( d1 f$ W; h5 P

Composition sketches of key scenes: If you have this sketch, you will feel awesome when shooting, at least like a photographer You feel like a master, haha, if you hold the drawings and point out the situation, you will feel confident even if you are not ready to send it. I think when you finish shooting the planned film, you will feel it if you improvise and shoot some more on-the-spot films. I feel more confident.

Clothes, shoes and props: There are too many things to cover, but if the shoes are the wrong size, it is enough to make you depressed for a whole afternoon:

Lighting equipment. : If you have a light, be sure to test it beforehand. I don’t want to write an instruction manual here. If the light cannot be synchronized with the camera, you will be dumbfounded. Then go buy it. Don’t tell me that you are willing to spend thousands. We have a camera and tens of thousands of lenses, but we just can’t bear to buy a light. If you don’t have a light, you’re not doing photography, you’re playing with equipment. We don’t have the same language. At least you have to have a reflector, right? Then you have to listen to the weather forecast for tomorrow. What does photography rely on? How can I forget this? Rely on light to shape and compose the picture.

Needless to say about other preparations. Anyway, less preparation will make you look good immediately when taking pictures. There are so many things to prepare. If you say you don’t spend time to prepare them, you can definitely guarantee that every time Nothing wrong?

Success rate = preparation time/shooting time, haha, this formula may be a little bit wrong, but it explains the problem. I will make some adjustments to this formula in the end.

It’s very simple to shoot, just press the shutter. From a physical point of view, it’s just your index finger that presses the button, and this button triggers the shutter, and then the light passes through. The lens can’t wait to rush into the photosensitive original, leaving traces of light. Don’t think you are so great. The thing you take to take pictures is actually the accumulation of hundreds of years of human experience. This complicated process is completed in a few hundredths of a second. Therefore, we must first be grateful to our ancestors for giving us this magical machine, ah!

What next? Next, you need to know what aperture, speed, ISO, color temperature, light ratio, and shooting format are. A friend who is interested in photography asked me: What is ISO? I immediately fainted. If you can only use aperture and speed, you are still playing with a fool's machine. You can also only use the automatic mode of P gear. If you are a little more advanced, you will use aperture and speed priority. I advise you not to waste the SLR and play with a fool instead. Let's learn to use manual mode. This is the real photography. There is no need to talk about aperture and speed here. Whether the exposure is accurate and the focal length is correct are the basic issues. The emphasis here is on the color temperature and light ratio. , if you don’t know this yet, or can’t master it, then you will be disabled. It can be said that incorrect color temperature and incorrect exposure are errors of the same nature. There is also light ratio. It is so important that so few people mention it. It is really embarrassing.

If you know the light ratio, you should keep it in mind every moment when shooting. If you don’t know, then learn it quickly

There is only one truth, if you master your camera skillfully, Only by mastering your lamp or light proficiently can you take the photos you want. Photography is not about luck.

To summarize: preliminary preparation is very important, shooting proficiency is crucial, and post-production adjustments are brilliant. , Creativity is the soul

Success rate = preparation time × shooting × post-production × creativity

Lighting equipment: If you have lights, you must add: