How complex do you think photography really is, and what are your experiences?

Learn how to set up and operate a DSLR camera. This is the basis of photography, sharpen the knife without making a mistake for a woodcutter! If you don't know how to operate your camera well, you won't be able to shoot well.

To understand the basics of lenses. The construction principles and specifications of the lens, what lens is suitable for what scene, these knowledge will lay a solid foundation for you to become a good photographer. Learn to compose.

The composition reflects the layout and structure of a photograph, which is the photographer's idea, and whether the idea is good or not involves the question of whether the reader wants to see it or not. Learn to use light. Photography is to use light to "paint", and it is difficult to make a painting without light or if the light is not good, just like a painter who has no paint or the paint is out of tune.

After learning the above basic knowledge, it is necessary to gradually understand the shooting methods such as landscapes, portraits, and night scenes.

It's also really difficult, first of all, the composition is not to mention, it is difficult for novices to sketch a picture with a perfect image, and then the post-processing is more troublesome.

Photography is mostly a hobbyist for everyone, and every photography enthusiast does not fully understand the equipment at hand, because photography is a science, and if you want to really master its methods and techniques, you have to go through a long period of continuous learning and exploration to become a photographer-level person. Ordinary enthusiasts need to learn more and ask more questions, especially shoot more. Everything in the world is obtained through long-term practice, just like the so-called practice makes perfect, nothing is absolutely complicated, as long as you like it, you can quickly understand it.

As far as my personal experience is concerned, the first thing I came into contact with was the post-processing software PS, which I took when I was in college, and I often look for ** study on the Internet, and learning PS has always been something I insist on; Later, when I went out of society, I saved enough money to buy a full-frame SLR, read the manual, all kinds of research, asked my friends to go out to take pictures and practice, and mastered the operation of the camera little by little; On photography** look for good works to appreciate and cultivate your own aesthetics; In the process of shooting, I also made many friends, communicated well with the model, instructed the model how to do the action, communicated with the model in advance about the shooting style, clothing and makeup that need to be prepared. It is not easy to shoot a good set of works, and the photography process is interlocking, and any failure to do a good job will affect the quality of the photos. Therefore, I think photography is complicated, it takes a lot of energy and time to study and practice, and it is not something that can be done in one or two days, and there is a lot of photography knowledge that needs to be learned.

A few days ago, I watched a Douyin, a photographer who had just finished filming on a snowy day in the mountains, and had to hike down the mountain.

Pre-photography is only one of the links, and in order to reduce the post-production work, pre-work is very important. For example, when shooting the scene, you can finally shoot a good picture at one time, including the scene and color, so you have to adjust the light and shade on the scene, which is to be assisted by the light. If the lighting is good, the color and brightness of the whole shot can be staggered, and it is more beautiful.

Photography's grasp of light is also very important, and sometimes it is necessary to borrow a position to get a good angle, because this angle is perfectly matched with the mapping of light. As long as you take care to discover every interesting picture, you can quickly become a master photographer.

It's very simple to say, just press the shutter, this can't but be called photography, right? A good photo needs to mobilize all your thoughts, feelings, aesthetic concepts, and technical skills in using the camera. If you look closely, it's complicated.

In the process of on-site shooting, why do some people look good when they shoot the same scene, and some people don't look good when they shoot it? This definitely has something to do with your cultural literacy and aesthetics, as well as your shooting skills. These are all indispensable.

So whether it's complicated or not is not the same for different people.

Photography isn't just about exposing the light and getting the scene right, it's just getting started. Photography has to take it to the next level, it is to defamiliarize the familiar shadows, and to take the commonplace photos of people as if they think they look good, but they can't see what they are. At present, the technology has not yet reached this level.

It is necessary to understand the photographer's self-understanding, which is the embodiment of photography skills and strength, blindly following the trend, what others shoot, how to shoot, what they shoot, how to shoot, it is better to think more about what others did not shoot, how I shoot. Photography is like life, the richer the experience, the more exciting the life, and the more powerful the work.

It's not as complicated as you think, depending on how you treat it, you must understand the function of the camera and be proficient in how to operate it, and learn more aesthetic knowledge in composition (see some famous paintings, models on the catwalk, a variety of composition styles). In terms of color, it is necessary to understand different environments, the use of colors in different seasons and reasonable collocation, etc.

I explained this question to a friend yesterday for a long time, and it is indeed a bit abstract, and the answer is as follows:

The color temperature in photography generally refers to the color temperature of the ambient light source, for the naked eye of yellow people, about 5500K is white light, the lower the color temperature is warmer (yellow, red), and the higher the moon is colder (blue, purple).

And the phenomenon that the landlord said is also correct, on the camera, the lower the white balance (note the word "white balance", which will be explained below), the lower the **blue, the higher the yellowish, which is to figure out the concept of white balance:

The basic concept of white balance is "the ability to restore white objects to white regardless of any light source". Imagine that if a white object appears yellow under a yellow light source (the color temperature is low, set to 3000K), then if the camera's white balance is set to 5200K daylight, the object will be yellowish. And if it is reduced to 3000k, then the white object will be reduced to white (note, it is bluer than the original yellowish **), so the landlord came to the conclusion that "the larger the color temperature value, the warmer the shadow tone, the smaller the value, the more blue the shadow tone".

In general, it is important to distinguish between the color of the light source and the color temperature itself; However, the purpose of the camera's white balance is to correct the color cast caused by the color of the light source, so it is understandable to see the opposite result.

There are many subjects in photography, such as portraits, landscapes, sports, documentary, animals, architecture, macros, starry sky, and so on.

The purpose of photography is different for everyone, some for entertainment, some for commercial use, some for documentary, and some for self-fulfillment.

There are many aspects to the technique of photography, such as the ingenuity of composition, the skill of using light, the skill of equipment selection, and the skill of post-processing. Different genres have different techniques.

It can be difficult for the average person to figure out the difference between photography and ordinary photography. When a photographer takes a picture on the street with a camera, it seems to others that this person is taking pictures, and when you ask him what he is doing, he will also answer "taking pictures", but maybe the ** he shoots can be called "photographic works", and the ** taken by others is just "**".

For example, we all took graduation photos when we were in school, and many units and organizations also took group photos, and it takes a lot of preparation to shoot this kind of **, but the ** taken is called "group photo" instead of "group photography" and "multi-person photography", because this kind of ** is only for recording and does not express any theme.

All in all, photography isn't as simple as picking up a camera and pressing the shutter.