Nothing can be done in a day or two, and the same is true for photography. To become a qualified photographer, mastery of photography skills is the most basic, and flexibility is the most important thing. There are about seven steps to go from beginner to master, so let's see where you are.
Step 1: Simple shooting
This step can generally not care about skills, just simply like to take pictures, shoot casually with the camera or mobile phone in hand, and don't care about these photography skills such as aperture shutter exposure composition, just record the bits and pieces of life at will. I don't think too much about it, just take a simple photo.
Step 2: Start paying attention to the technique of photography
At this stage, you are a little dissatisfied with just a simple random shot, the automatic mode of the mobile phone or card player always does not achieve the effect you want, you start to want to get not so random photos, so you start to pay attention to the basic skills, want to learn some basics, and also start to pay attention to some introductory equipment.
Step 3: Understand the importance of technology
At this time, you may already have semi-professional or professional cameras, lenses and other equipment, and slowly you will find that the importance of technology is far more important than the importance of equipment, and the limitation is that the technology is not enough, and the performance of the equipment has never been fully played in your hands. So you start to learn exposure, you learn composition, you learn to work with light.
You'll also start to learn about post-processing, because you'll already understand that post-production is part of the whole photography process, just like a beautiful woman is naturally beautiful, but wearing some light makeup will be more perfect. At this point, you have made photography a part of your life, and no matter what happens in the future, photography will stay with you for the rest of your life.
Step 4: Over-reliance on technology
I believe that you can already take photos that look good at this stage, and you are already relatively mature in terms of technology. At this time, it is easy to fall into the mistake that you rely too much on skill, superstitious about the perfection of parameters, pursue the absolute quality of image quality, but forget the soul of photography.
Step 5: Start reflecting
After the stagnation of the previous period, you may have understood that those techniques are just small means, and having beautiful works is the goal. Those techniques are only for the soul of the photo, so the most you think about before each shoot is not what parameters or equipment is, the most you think about is what you want to express your thoughts and how to express it, maybe the number of photos you take is getting smaller and smaller, maybe the people around you don't look so good in your photos, but the important thing is that you have your thoughts in your photos.
Step 6: Maturity
At this time, you have already begun to form your own mature style, and you can also use photography to express different ideas or connotations.
Step 7: A true master
At this time, every work or series of works you take is no longer just a simple photo, they all tell a deep story, and even leave your unique traces in the history of photography.
A photograph with flexibility is the most rare. I hope that every photography enthusiast can persevere to the end and persist in this love.
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