Photography is an art that runs out of light, right! The art of running out of money

A buddy is a photography enthusiast, and his half-life savings have been replaced by equipment, and his home

Photography is an art that runs out of light, right! The art of running out of money

A buddy is a photography enthusiast, and his half-life savings have been replaced by equipment, and his home is full of dozens of moistureproof box. He has made at least 200,000 films, each of which is wonderful. Three of them were selected by the photography textbook, and the book is called "Wrong Exposure and Composition, 100 Demos and Examples".

Compared with cars, watches and computers, SLR is just the tip of the iceberg. 80% of photographers eventually became equipment lovers. They ruined their lives with a SLR and laughed at the poor photography skills of the three generations.

"Yes, photography is an art of burning money. First of all, you have to learn to run out of money. "

There is a story in the photography circle. A photographer was shooting outside and met a beggar who came to beg for food. The photographer gave him a dollar. The beggar glanced at the photographer's photo and said simply that the exposure would be halved again.

Starting with the first plastic body, take a black SLR and take pictures of any subject you can see. "Your camera is so clear!" The appreciation of friends makes you feel high.

You carry a SLR with you, sweeping the street like a reporter. You pressed the shutter 20,000 times in more than a month. With the accumulation of experience, you become more and more picky about photos.

The background is not blurred enough, the subject is not full enough, the photo can hardly be seen when enlarged, and the noise is serious. There is a voice in your head saying to you: "Change the lens, all this can be changed!" " "

Buy five lenses at a time, big three yuan, big light and cannon barrel. In the eyes of friends, you changed Quan Huafu's fuselage, carried 30 kilograms of equipment, and became a professional photographer.

Composition, aperture and focal length surround your mind like metaphysics.

You mix hummingbirds with mowgli, like an old hand commenting on other people's photos: poison! Dewei! Master! Studied it! The outside of coke melts like cream, and the inside of coke is as sharp as a blade! Reasonable composition! Accurate exposure!

To find out the situation, you even signed up for a crash course in yoga.

For a bigger body and a better lens, your household equipment cost almost 300,000 yuan, and you sold your beloved Audi.

You have an appointment with your friends to go out to shoot and get up early to pursue the golden moment of sunrise and sunset.

You joined the photography club, and everyone pooled their money to hire a wild model on the 18 line, pose for half a day, and then take turns playing for half a day.

You have become a frequent visitor to the auto show and are extremely persistent about beauty. You use the lens to capture sharp light and shadow, and magnify the details several times.

You are crazy about macros. They said it would be clearer if you came closer.

So, in order to get a close-up of a flower, I did not hesitate to damage the lens of 10 thousand pieces.

In order to catch amber in birds' eyes, you taught yourself the skills of catching birds.

You play aerial photography with your friends, sports photography. You got on a tripod with a tripod and bought five sets of filters, but something is always missing from the photos you took.

Too clear but without artistic conception, and the artistic conception is not clear. These are like nightmares that make you puzzled.

So, you found another way.

The film came into your field of vision, like a prodigal son traveling all over the world, and returned to the starting point.

"Only film is the real photography. That kind of thick, profound and rich sense of history cannot be reflected by ordinary digital cameras. " You paralyze yourself like this.

You are obsessed with old-fashioned cameras, scouring second-hand websites all over the world for second-hand goods. In order to get a discontinued Lycra 135 side axle, you fly to Hong Kong to pick up the goods.

You enter another language family and call movies movies. There is no food in the refrigerator, but all the precious films are put in it.

You collect old movies and make your own darkroom. You study the silver content of different films, and prepare developer and fixer with beaker and thermometer. You even started experimenting with movie titles.

You are like a scientist or a collector, getting farther and farther away from the mainstream photography circle.

The cow said that the worse the weather, the more likely it is to produce a good film.

So, you put on a jacket and a kerosene stove to set up a tent, you climbed the snowy mountain over the grass and climbed the cliff, your waist muscles were strained and your face was black, and your wife complained that your physical fitness was declining, so she bought a kidney treasure tablet and put it in a thermos cup to make it up.

Suddenly one day, you suddenly woke up. Photography is an art, not a science.

A clear and artistic photo, the whole picture can see the realm, zoom in and ponder the details, and the world will be shocked.

In this way, you no longer cling to the equipment, put everything down and make a clean break with the past, and sell all the cameras.

You have become a mobile phone photographer, and you are used to shooting discs before meals.

You fall in love with mobile phone photography, which is more relaxed and casual than camera. This is another kind of fun, a more relaxed fun. You don't have to carry big bags when you go out for sightseeing. You are back to photography itself, that is, the moment of freezing.

But your geek nature doesn't allow you to participate in low-end photography games. Just like playing with equipment, you study mobile phone photography. You worship being different and unconventional, and you take creative photography with glasses, binoculars and straws.

Out of the perfect picky about pictures, you have 30 mito software installed in your mobile phone, and it takes three hours to repair each photo before you can safely send it to your circle of friends.

No matter where you go, you should take pictures. You take part in a photography activity to collect 50 praise prizes. You send red envelopes in the group and ask people to vote. In addition to the WeChat business, you have also become the person who sends the most films in the circle of friends.

You put all your energy into your mobile phone. You have little time for entertainment, much less for staying at home.

If the photographer doesn't like it the most, the first one must be this sentence: What is the difficulty of photography? No, just press the shutter! Hearing this, I want to shoot him/her with my camera!

I don't even know the three cores of aperture/shutter/sensitivity. What are you playing? I don't have a deep understanding of photometry/composition/connotation, and occasionally I can take good photos, but the pursuit of Excellence is not enough.

Today, I will tell you five training methods to avoid becoming a "shutter-only person". This idea is very important. Don't be fooled by the camera!

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Think more.

Pick up the camera and forget it! It is impossible to cultivate "photographic eyes" overnight. So, besides thinking about picking up the camera before pressing the shutter, you can also think about how to shoot when you don't often do other work, go shopping, eat, or even go to the toilet:

Find the theme: What's worth shooting here?

Highlight the theme: how to shoot to make the theme more vivid?

Light and shadow: how to capture light and shadow?

Composition: What composition should I use?

Aperture, shutter, ISO: Try to preset some combinations according to the environment.

Color: What color should be used to express in this environment?

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What you left behind is a story.

To be an excellent photographer, every photo always leaves a story. When a photo is recording the story of a person or a period of time, you add life and meaning to the photo. It is no longer just an "image" under a photosensitive element, but a story with a background. So ask yourself before shooting, will there be a "story" in this photo?

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Reduce, not increase

People are always greedy, but in the world of photography, "subtraction" is better than "increase". When a photo is full of elements and there are dozens of themes you want to express, it is often confusing, so that readers don't know what you want to shoot! Therefore, to improve your photography skills, you might as well "reduce" the elements you want to include and make the theme clearer!

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Try to shoot something that others can't see.

When you take thousands or even tens of thousands of photos, you will find that many photos have the same composition, concept and shooting method. At this time, you can try to shoot something that others can't see, such as:

shoot a close-up

Now shoot from different angles (extreme angles may be more interesting)

Shooting at special times (such as full moon night, late at night, before sunrise, or even seasonal/natural, such as when some animals migrate to the area, when it just snows/rains, etc.). )

Use fast/slow shutter

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Don't let the device control you.

To tell the truth, updating stronger equipment will really fascinate people! But this pursuit is of little use to photographers, but it will let the equipment control you, as if you can't take good photos without powerful equipment. But in fact, as long as you practice the above four points, no matter what camera lens you use, you can always shoot excellent works with your personal skills and brain.

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