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6 Points of Advice to Newbie Photographers

Why is it that after buying a camera and shooting for a while, the photos are always bad? The following is my advice to novice photographers, if you ask yourself that you are already a master, please skip it.

Find a direction

First of all, ask yourself, what do you want to shoot? Portraits, landscapes, street snapshots, weddings, sports, food, commercial photography, etc. Each photography topic has its own characteristics and requires different skills. Finding your favorite topic to focus on learning and researching is not to say that if you choose one, you won't touch other types, but focusing on a topic as a starting point, so that you can have a clear direction of learning, or else you'll have to learn about the whole range of photographic techniques, so how do you start? It is also easier to see your progress by focusing on one subject. When you reach a certain level of expertise, you can try to shoot another subject, and you will learn faster.

Imitate

Imitate your favorite masters. If you want to learn photography, you must have been "poisoned" by certain photos, so why not learn how to take a photo that "poisoned" you in the first place? There is nothing wrong with imitating others before a photographer develops a personal style.

Equipment is important, but not the most important thing

I won't deny the importance of equipment, and there are certain subjects such as birds, ecology, and sports that are impossible to photograph without the right equipment. But it's easy for newbies to get too caught up in their equipment and forget about their own personal skills. If you are a novice, you don't need to worry too much about the quality of the equipment, nowadays the performance of the camera is very excellent, the performance of the same price of the camera is similar, such as two similarly priced cameras, stand in the position of the consumer of course, you want to buy the best product, even if it is only 1% ahead of the sharpness, but the use of 1% stronger sharpness of the equipment will not make you become a good 1% of the photographer. The same applies to photographic equipment, so it is not wrong to buy the most advanced one you can afford. It doesn't matter if you can only afford to buy an entry-level camera, you can definitely get a great shot with an entry-level camera.

Lens > Camera

Many of my predecessors would tell you that you don't have to buy the best camera, but you should buy the best lens possible. From the economic point of view, the camera price falls fast, but the second-hand price of high-grade lenses has always been very stable, a lens with ten years of its price will not fall a lot, on the contrary, a ten-year digital camera is certainly not worth the money. A good mirror out of the flavor is different, so the good mirror with the entry machine effect must be better than the poor mirror with the top of the machine.

Don't be a fundamentalist

When you learn the basics and become familiar with them, don't stick to the basics. For example, some people pointed out that I have a landscape photo with F2.8 cum iso1600 setting as an act of not knowing how to shoot, but who ever said that you have to have F11 + ISO100 to shoot landscapes? If you can only shoot handheld, you have to be flexible. Every suggestion in a photography book is a "suggestion", and there is no rule in photography that if you shoot X, the setting must be Y. When you understand the meaning behind each suggestion, you should break it when appropriate. The premise is that you must know the basics, otherwise you're not breaking the rules, you're just taking pictures.

Happy photography

The most important thing is to have fun with it, and that's what keeps me going.