Many people have long held many prejudices and stereotypes about photography, and some misunderstandings have misled many beginners.
Today we summarize several common misunderstandings about photography for everyone:
To start with the conclusion, being able to take sweet photos indicates a good level of photography skills. Therefore, it is biased to assert that sweet photos are rubbish.
Sweet photos are much better than most photos taken in a hurry by most people, and even better than photos that are affected, pretentious, and artificial. Many professional photographers have also gone through the stage of taking sweet photos, and some even continue to do so after entering the photography industry.
Have they stopped understanding photography at this point?
Of course not, it is just to satisfy the audience and clients.
Beginner photographers take shooting sweet photos as a short-term goal, which is also an efficient way to improve their skills during this process.
For some themes and photography enthusiasts, sunny days do make it easier to shoot good photos. However, we should not overlook other weather conditions for this reason. Gloomy and rainy days, which many people do not like, can also produce excellent photos and create a special atmospheric feeling.
Many people also like gloomy weather because in such scenes, the light is soft and even, which is more suitable for shooting certain outdoor themes.
Some people may think that their surrounding environment is too ordinary to shoot exciting photos, and persisting in this mindset is not conducive to our progress.
Shooting interesting and meaningful photos in ordinary scenes is the embodiment of photography skills; and in familiar places and with familiar crowds, we often can explore deep content.
Photography beginners who have just learned post-processing are most likely to have this mindset. While post-processing corrections and creativity are important, they are built on the foundation of pre-shooting. If you want to further improve the upper limit of photos, you must spend more effort in the pre-shooting stage.
Regardless of the photography level, it is best not to choose a camera based on personal skills, but based on the budget. Generally, beginners should choose the most expensive and best camera within their budget, regardless of whether this is our first camera.
Of course, the premise is that we really like photography and want to cultivate it in the long term, after all, cameras are not cheap, it is not necessary to waste money.
There used to be a popular saying: the price of a tripod should ideally be one-tenth of the camera price.
If you need to use a tripod frequently, it is still necessary to choose a handy and durable tripod. During use, we will gradually discover that a good tripod is worth the price.
Another point to note is that there is not much difference in tripods below 500 RMB. If we are using it for a short period and do not have particularly professional requirements, a tripod priced at just over 100 RMB is sufficient.
There is a saying that when we press the shutter button ten thousand times, there will be a qualitative change in photography skills.
This state ment is reasonable, after all, skill comes from practice, but some people blindly focus on the number of shutter presses, considering it as a standard to measure technical skills, which is absolutely wrong.
Intentional shooting and unconscious shooting are completely different. While we believe in the theory of skill through practice, we should also pay attention to our own thinking and not treat photography as a purely technical operation.
This article is from the WeChat public account: Playing Photography (ID: wakexiao), Author: AGER