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First, the learning method of photography technology
Recently, some friends talked about looking for a teacher to learn photography, so I have some ideas about photography learning and want to talk nonsense.
The purpose of writing these contents is because I feel that the network is developed now, and any problems in photography technology can be solved through B&; G found a lot of information. However, how to master effective learning methods according to your own needs and find your own way up in the ocean of information should still have some methodological needs. At the same time, there are too many masters and too many equipment disputes, which makes my favorite photography distorted in China. I don't expect to be an excellent photographer, but I expect to be a stepping stone to an excellent photographer.
Okay, let's get down to business.
First of all, always ask, why do you want to learn photography? Different learning purposes naturally have different learning methods. Meanwhile, different people learn in different ways. But before we begin, we should talk about the similarities in learning.
1. Only sharp tools can do it well.
Then you must be familiar with your own equipment first. Even if you shoot with your mobile phone, please be familiar with the settings inside, such as how to zoom and how to turn off the flash. That's when you can do your magic. It's good for a technical man to read the instructions, and it's ok to ponder it himself. It takes a while to get familiar with the equipment, so as not to be in a hurry when you have any ideas or want to seize any opportunities, and you haven't caught anything yet. Some people say that I just don't understand the equipment. What should I do? Ok ... You can find any machine that just presses the shutter. That SLR full of buttons is not designed for you. You know, even a machine with only 1 shutter, 2 aperture and lens focus stuck can still shoot good works, but only if you are familiar with it and know its length and depth.
2. shoot more and shoot slowly.
I read it in a textbook. I can't tell you the name of the textbook. Find it yourself, otherwise how can I get along? ) A beginner's homework. Take 100 photos at home that you think are ok. I often use this to fool my friends when they want to learn photography. Half an hour later, someone came in and said, it's done Someone looked at the topic and thought for a long time. They looked at me with eyes that despised the vendors who bought chicken hair vegetables for 20 yuan a catty. Your topic is too damaging. Without a year 1 how can I finish filming? If you don't want to teach me, just say so. Sweat!
Okay, you know what I'm going to say? Quantity is not the key. Every photo is thoughtful, just use your own brain and eyes. Moreover, it is necessary to have a certain accumulation to integrate a technology and pour it out of your mind when necessary.
Ok, let's discuss the photography learning methods for various purposes.
First, determine what you want from photography.
I like traveling and so on. And extended to the field of photography. I hope to make some records in this form.
B, take photography as a means to cultivate sentiment and take it as a form of artistic creation.
C, making money, commercial photography.
In fact, under normal circumstances, everyone starts from A and has the impulse to develop to B. It is best to consider point C in order to get a return on investment.
Of course, TX said, I'm going to jump straight to the end of B. What do you want? Then I have no objection. Some people are very talented, but there are not many such people. Most TXs still cultivate interest and make slow progress.
So I'll start with A and introduce some B and C, which I don't understand myself, but I still have some contempt subconsciously. I think it hinders the development of B.
Beginners should use numbers, which has been thought for a long time. Cost is not the key, the key is to shorten the time interval of inspection results, compare various effects and record parameters conveniently on the computer, and facilitate communication and get suggestions.
But when using digital learning, you must always remind yourself to control the speed of pressing the shutter. Don't form a habit. Anyway, every time the shutter cost of digital photos is close to zero, shoot them quickly and continuously, and then choose them afterwards. There may be a special purpose shooting task in a certain occasion, but when studying, we must consider the shooting motivation of each photo and the choice of each parameter.
Of course, I have heard of it before. I have a certain understanding of shutter, aperture, ISO, white balance, focus, depth of field and the basic structure of the fuselage. By learning this kind of thinking in the process of shooting, we can deepen our understanding repeatedly.
In the initial shooting, you can choose the same environment and subject, change different parameters, and then compare the obtained films to intuitively feel the influence of these parameters on the picture.
This part is the mastery of technology, which is more difficult for TX who wants to reach B and C in the primary learning stage. It's just that if you really like photography, you won't feel how bitter it is, but enjoy it.
In fact, the most effective thing for beginners is composition learning. If you cooperate with the depth of field control with large aperture, it is estimated that there will be amazing effects within 2 or 3 hours, which can well mobilize the enthusiasm of learning. So when you are familiar with the parameters, you should study composition well. What line composition, color block composition, depth of field composition. It sounds mysterious. To put it bluntly, it is a matter of taking a few photos in a few minutes. The difficulty of composition learning lies in observation. It is necessary to extract the composition elements existing in daily scenes. This exercise can be done without a camera. When shooting practice, you should try more carefully before shooting.
Speaking of which, there is also TX to refute me. You will waste a lot of shooting opportunities and lose a lot of aura. This is also a question that I have repeatedly thought about. In fact, photography is still a creative process with technical constraints, which is also the place where photography is different from painting. As for TXs who need to study photography seriously, you are not halo geniuses. Those people won't read such articles. Hey hey. In addition, the gas field that will be bound in this way should not be a gas field, but a cleverness.
Second, the special terms that must be mastered
The first paragraph talks about some nonsense about the learning method of photography technology. Here I list some special terms that must be mastered. If you don't understand, you can still take some interesting photos if you are lucky, but it is difficult to consciously control the machine and skills to get the photos you want. Some words have been automatically calculated by the machine, but as a promising potential photographer, you still need to understand and know how to realize them on your camera. If the explanation is not clear, please go to Baidu and Google. And grasp the relationship between them through practice.
Exposure, aperture size, shutter speed, ISO (sensitivity), white balance (for digital cameras, the film is sunlight and light film), 135 frame (Quan Huafu), light and shadow, tolerance, focusing, zoom and fixed focus, depth of field, cold and warm tones, contrast, saturation, high tone, dark tone, telephoto, medium focus, etc.
What's the next step after we have done a lot of exercises? Of course, I want to open a peacock screen online, say something modest, please pat bricks and so on, and of course I secretly expect cream cakes and sugar-coated shells to fly over.
Here is an important suggestion for TX students who want to learn photography. The ability of photo screening should be cultivated here.
In Norwegian Woods, Yongze said, never feel sorry for yourself. This is an important principle in our initial film selection.
The choice of movies for everyone needs to be strict. Carefully observe, analyze and select the films that you shot in the study, and resolutely screen out the films that you can see the shortcomings. For a beginner who uses digital, after controlling the number of shutter times (pay attention to this sentence), every time he practices shooting 100, he can pick out 10, which is already a good result, and it is normal to get 6 or 7. If film is used, due to cost pressure, shooting may be cautious and the proportion may be slightly higher. Of course, it does not rule out that there is no way to install the wrong one, and the whole army is wiped out. This is also a feature that movies are closer to life.
If you only choose 1 photo, congratulations. Although you discouraged yourself from taking it, you got a harsh and critical look. This will be an important tool to help you move forward and establish your own shooting style on the road of follow-up study.
When showing photos to others, you need to make some simple explanations, such as shooting parameters, conditions, shooting intentions, etc., which can help viewers compare whether you have correctly conveyed what you want to convey and provide technical help. Here is a very important suggestion. Although you can gain some knowledge by communicating with experts, you can often get good advice by discussing with people who don't know photography at all. Their views are often unexpected.
At this stage, the basic learning methods are very clear.
First, basic knowledge learning
B, think while shooting
C. Strictly screen photos
D. Sharing and communication
Then repeat these four steps, and you will get hundreds of scrap films and rare qualified works every time.
The improvement of photography level is reflected in mastering the camera and shooting parameters, keen observation, firmly grasping the shutter timing, reducing waste products and improving the yield.
After several shots, I have mastered the camera and technology (generally shooting 2 hours of TX every week is about 1~2 months). I can try to find some shooting themes for myself, and it's better to choose those that have universal significance rather than short-term success, such as the Olympic Games and SB Games. You can shoot many times, compare the samples obtained many times, and observe the changes of your ability. This is of great help to what we will talk about later.
Here I also need to mention the study of post-production technology.
Darkroom technology, later known as film photography, is a variety of digital editing software.
For beginners, it is recommended to use post-technology as little as possible, and the cutting and scaling curves may be adjusted, but please use it as little as possible. This will cover up the defects of the previous technology. If you are in a hurry to produce a work, for example, TX is just a beginner in commercial photography, and the bride and groom are waiting for photos, there is no way out, so it is not easy to learn PS and LR from books. Of course, if the ability in the early stage is over, the time and energy in the later stage will be greatly reduced, which is also an important cost for a commercial photographer.
Here, I also want to remind you that what you see on your own computer may not be what others see on his computer due to the difference of output devices, so you need to refer to the histogram when editing photos and calibrate the monitor slightly in advance. At the same time, be prepared that others may not see the results you want.
Well, for other TXs that are not in a hurry to eat by this, it is better to have less contact for the time being. Although it is not a scourge or a viral virus, it is often easy to develop the inertia of basic technical practice. When the technology is completed, you enter the creative stage and study hard again.
In fact, this involves personal views on photography. I think photography is actually recording a moment. If you smear too much afterwards, you will turn photography into painting, which is completely controlled by your own will, lacking a kind of interest that subjective and objective complement each other and struggle with each other.
Third, the learning methods of photography aesthetics
That's it. Technology says art. Although not everyone can become an artist, everyone can have the impulse to become an artist.
Some friends say that I just want to have a hobby, and it seems a bit unreliable to bring it to the artistic level. Actually, it's not necessary Art may be alienated by some specific people, but it is actually something too ordinary to be ordinary. Art is moving in the process of ordinary aesthetic appreciation. This kind of touch can be big or small. But we must be based on reality, have personality and have breakthrough beauty.
To add a few words here, I hate people who deify art very much I wrote a few days ago that those who deliberately promote art can be said to be people who oppose the construction of socialist spiritual civilization. At present, it seems that these people have gradually formed a circle, using strange and incomprehensible formalism to isolate outsiders from their understanding, sharing the benefits brought by art cover, and at the same time using various packaging hype to cover up the internal deviation from art. Specific representatives, Xiaogang Feng, Zhang Yimou, and some so-called art distribution centers in 798 engage in performance art, including long hair, men and bald women. It's not about the hairstyle, it's for some people. If you have the same hairstyle, please don't sit in the right place These people ruined art and blocked the way for ordinary people to get in touch with real art.
So art can be said to be an understanding of ordinary life. Of course, for people who have no thoughts or feelings about life, it's ... in your dreams.
However, for Douban, it is natural for Wen Qing to gather, and he is afraid that he will feel too much. On the contrary, he will have less experience of ordinary life, and it will be embarrassing to think without learning or skill.
Impulse is useless. Artistic creation must have three things: cultivation, inspiration and skill.
I have written two articles about skills, and I will write an article about my achievements and inspiration. This is a typical evasion. Of course, there are excuses, because creation is difficult to learn, and you can't give rules when explaining, otherwise it will kill your creativity. China people want to learn this kind of rules and regulations very quickly, but when it comes to creativity, they are taught badly and can't get out. In fact, I hate many so-called' teachers'. Obviously, there is nothing wrong with some practices, but I want to tell you that you must take the one he specified, which is beside the point.
Literacy comes from a person's growing environment, educational background and hobbies. Everyone has a culture. For artistic creation, there is no difference in literacy, but only the owner's own cognition of his own literacy. This kind of cognition is obtained through reflection and introspection.
Recalling our growing process, we usually call it nostalgia, and looking for the reasons for establishing our world outlook. Many growth factors have been gradually integrated into memory and even subconscious. Therefore, reflection on one's own growth experience is helpful to understand one's personality tendency.
Education does not mean education, but the process of accepting social knowledge. I haven't found a very suitable word to describe it. This learning process can be school, self-study or case experience. There is no division of arts and sciences in this degree. The division of arts and sciences is only the difference of personal cognitive style to this society. Finally, through this educational background, it is decided that we can grasp the aesthetic concept of this society.
Interests and hobbies are the key factors to form the uniqueness of personal literacy on the basis of the above two points. Through the hobbies cultivated in the first two points, the cyclic accumulation of follow-up literacy is screened. At the same time, it has gradually formed a comparative aesthetic tendency. This will be the basis of personalized creation.
Generally speaking, literacy is a similar quantitative accumulation. Inspiration is the trigger point of qualitative change. Literacy means sitting cross-legged, and inspiration is the last nonsense. I see. You got it? What? You don't know what rest is, so ... it's the generation gap.
The cultivation of inspiration is actually very difficult. To be honest, I can't describe how to inspire a person. This place is not suitable for diligence. I can only say that for ordinary photographers, by improving their observation ability, maintaining a high sensitivity to things and taking more pictures to learn the foresight effect, the possibility of inspiration triggering is higher. But for students who are looking forward to becoming masters, the inspiration cultivation method I mentioned is useless.
But I provide a principle for potential experts to refer to, that is, to overthrow all principles and despise rules. To hell with everything I say, it may help you become a creative master. That means stepping on my shoulder, brother.
Please note that there is still a mysterious place in this, and this principle itself can be overthrown. This is not the logic of discrete mathematics, please understand it intuitively.
In fact, as long as there are rules, there will be inertia and dullness, which is fatal to creators who have always been sensitive.
This is also the reason why I have always been very opposed to a photographer becoming a professional photographer, because once professional, it will inevitably lead to many routines and creative fatigue. When interest is lost and creativity is exhausted, it's all over. Even if you can make money at that time, it is only a business success.
Write how to improve your literacy first. After all, this will not be too empty, lest this thing become my personal essay.
Method 1, discuss, learn to objectively comment on others and your own works, and communicate openly with you.
Method 2: Exhibition and album, and enjoy the works of masters. Choose your favorite masters or works, appreciate them repeatedly, try to analyze the technology and the ideas behind them, find out the reasons why you don't like them, and appreciate them repeatedly every once in a while to see what has changed.
Method 3: Pay attention to works of art other than photography and learn and digest them across borders, including literature, music, painting, calligraphy, dance, history and philosophy. , not even limited to art, but also extended to sports, cooking and so on.
Method 4: observe life without a camera, go shopping, cultivate observation, find subjects, and cultivate your inner desire to shoot.
Method 5: Think about the meaning of photography itself. This is not to become a philosopher, but to find my own motivation and expectation for photography. I have my own photographic significance, but I don't want to say it, because everyone has their own opinions, which is good.
Finally, I want to talk about equipment:
Many experts on the Internet have talked about the relationship between photographic equipment and photography, and everything is clear. My mouth itches. Say something more.
First of all, equipment is very important for photography, and the argument that equipment has nothing to do with photography is wrong. It just shows that there is no direct correspondence between the price of equipment and the value of photographic works. The performance of the equipment must meet the needs of photography creation.
Equipment hobby and photography hobby are two different things, although many times a photographer will also be an equipment lover, and the two are intertwined.
Equipment lovers will never use the price of equipment to measure equipment. Novices pay attention to updating the parameter list of equipment, and after advanced, they pay attention to its technological evolution, materials, workmanship and technological innovation. After that, they will study the design style and pedigree of equipment, and finally realize the influence of the artistry of equipment design and equipment technology on photographic art creation. Therefore, the connotation of equipment lovers' photos may not work, but it must be the peak of shooting skills. Those comrades who don't know the light angle with Lycra photos must be not equipment lovers, but brand lovers. As for those who use Mark III and DX3, if they just take pictures without basic picture technology, it's only ZB.
The fun of photography lovers comes from two places, and the input and achievements in the creative process are recognized. They will pursue the applicability of the equipment as much as possible for their own creative needs, so photographers must be familiar with their equipment.
You can take your seats. It is not easy to be a pure equipment lover or a photography lover. There is no difference between the two. The only people who can compete with each other are ZB fans, and I despise them.