How to improve your photography by first knowing these eight points

Photography is not only an art, but also a technology.

Like any other professional skill, photography needs constant improvement. No one can say that the level of photography has reached perfection, as long as there is 1% space, we have to work hard to improve.

Whether you're a professional photographer or an ordinary photographer, don't give up improving just because you feel you're good enough. But you must feel this way when you take pictures. After a period of time, you'll be stuck in a bottleneck, because your habitual way of taking pictures and thinking limit your development, and your imagination can't be extended. You find it difficult to break through this dilemma.

If you can get rid of the "comfort zone" in the bottleneck, let your photography technology go to a higher level. Next, I will provide eight ways to help you better exercise your photography skills.

1 shooting with fixed focus lens.

Although the emergence of zoom lenses greatly facilitates our shooting work, we can choose our desired focal length without frequent lens changes. You can walk around in a mirror without running around with heavy camera bags. But have you ever thought that it is this convenience that leads to your inert thinking and limits your imagination?

Traditional fixed focus lens still has its own unique advantages. The most important thing is to make us more diligent, as the saying goes, focus on walking, in order to get the subject to be photographed in a better posture, we need to better observe, to walk, to compose, we need to keep moving to find the best angle. When you're out taking pictures, it's advisable to use fixed-focus lenses, slow down in an impetuous society, and calm down to enjoy the process.

Of course, the benefits of fixed-focus lenses are far more than that, fixed-focus lenses tend to have a larger aperture, which allows you to absorb more light in a dark environment, allowing you to shoot more subjects and have more room to play. Constructions of fixed-focus lenses are simpler than zoom lenses, optical designs within a fixed frame tend to be better, and imaging quality is better than zoom lenses. Large aperture can bring more attractive shallow depth of field.

More importantly, fixed focus lenses are often much cheaper than the same quality zoom lenses.

2 shooting under the worst conditions.

It sounds like a paradox. As photographers, of course, we have to choose the best conditions, the best time to shoot, especially for the light requirements are particularly harsh.

However, what we're talking about here is training your photography skills. To hone your photography skills, shooting in the worst possible environment is a great way to help train your ability to deal with different situations, and to open up your mind and have more ideas and ideas to present yourself. The scene of the scene.

If you want to be a professional photographer, you can't be perfect in every shot. You have to train yourself to handle the environment in adversity. For example, if you like to take pictures of scenery, you can't always take pictures of sunshine, cloudy rain or even typhoons. Only by practicing more in this environment can you make your shooting more handy.

3 be careful with your shutter.

Although the cost of the next shutter shutter in the digital age is now minimal, we no longer have to think about wasting film when using digital cameras. So you don't care how many times you press the shutter, and the same scene will always shoot as many times as you can and then choose your ideal work after shooting.   However, these conveniences often become a reason for our laziness. You stop cherishing the shutter, create more image garbage, and then just delete it. Imagine if you were still shooting on film with 36 or even 12 or fewer rolls, would you press the shutter so rashly?

Be careful with your shutter. Even if you're using a digital camera, follow the idea of filming. Before you press each shutter, think carefully, compose, and carefully consider the light and depth of field. Or you can shoot directly with a film camera, and each shutter is an irreversible journey.

4 give yourself a long-term filming theme.

If you want to be a professional photographer, you have to understand that interest doesn't make money for you. Customers Commission photographs of specific subjects. You can effectively help you improve your photography by inviting others to assign tasks to yourself. Because when you take a subject as a task to complete, you must ask yourself to fully grasp the customer's ideas, and to complete the customer's photography list perfectly.

When you accept a shooting assignment entrusted to you by a friend or family member, remember that they are clients and treat it as your job. Only by working hard to complete the shooting task, can they be praised.

5 set a time for your own shooting.

Give yourself the time you plan to shoot, and complete the shooting task within the planned time can effectively train your photographic efficiency, let you better manage your time, and let your shooting work more organized. When you give yourself a filming theme, you also add time.