To make life an art, we must first love life and live like a poem, such as 1, a little inspiration in life; 2. Selection of sketch theme; 3. How to build a small scene; 4. Art without light at home; 5. Later thoughts and ideas.
Inspiration in life: there is inspiration everywhere in life, photography is life, and "taking pictures" is the same as "life". So instead of complaining about the triviality and boredom of daily life, it is better to take a mobile phone to find and discover the ordinary beauty in daily life that we often turn a blind eye to.
Mobile phone photography changes the way of seeing the world. Friends who like mobile phone photography will have the same experience. As long as the mobile phone is in hand, we will consciously look for pictures to shoot, to observe the lines of a building, the color of a flower, the shape of a cloud, the expression of a stranger, and the reflection in a pool of water. Slowly, this conscious search will become a habit, and the mobile phone will unconsciously become an important teaching aid, teaching me how to watch the world when I am not shooting. Too many new things, too much excitement and too fast pace in modern life will make us impetuous or turn a blind eye, while mobile phone photography can make us slow down, observe, feel and record, and establish the connection between our inner feelings and the outside world.
The first step in learning photography is to pick up your mobile phone at any time and be ready to shoot at any time, so that this teaching aid can lead us to discover new beauty in forgotten and neglected corners. Over time, I hope we can all practice a pair of photographic eyes and have the magic power to turn ordinary into magic. Below, I will send some sketches I took in my daily life, most of which were taken at home, on campus or on my way to and from work. I left in a hurry before I studied photography. After learning photography, in addition to looking around, I often look up and down, even at the roadside.
Sketch theme selection:
1, shoot what you like and are familiar with.
Sketch photography is characterized by seeing the big from the small and seeing the big from the small. A successful sketch photography should make ordinary subjects extraordinary. So I think almost everything around you can be the object of shooting. But I suggest we start with what we like. Actually, we are a little tired after work every day. If we have to force ourselves to face things we don't like in order to complete a task, photography will become particularly boring. For example, I especially like flowers and trees. Every time I face these beautiful things in nature, the shooting process is particularly pleasant, and I often feel that time has slipped away unconsciously. There are often friends who want to learn photography, but they are worried that they can't persist without perseverance. I will always answer that photography does not need perseverance, but it needs perseverance to work hard. Photography is getting along with beautiful things. You just need to feel and love these beautiful things and enjoy the process of photography. You don't need perseverance at all. Photography is actually taking pictures of ourselves. For example, I am a more emotional person, and I often feel a lot of sadness about my dying life, so I often shoot leaves and branches of another subject besides flowers.
My understanding of sketch photography is by no means to shoot some inanimate objects. Photographers should endow the subject with emotion and life, and it is easier for them to melt into emotion and shoot the soul of the subject when shooting what they like. Small ornaments, dolls, toys, glassware, tea sets, vegetables, fruits, etc. Can be used as a subject at home. In short, start by shooting what you like.
2. Take a picture of the moment that touched you.
Sometimes, a scene in life will suddenly touch us at a certain moment, reminding us of the poems we have read, the songs we have sung, the paintings we have painted, the movies we have seen and even the dreams we have had. At this time, slow down your pace and try to capture this feeling with your camera. Andre Cortes once said: It is not enough to just observe, you must feel the object you are shooting. Photography is by no means a mechanical copy of the objective world, but rather an expression of our feelings and thoughts.
Photography teaches us to pay attention to our inner feelings and keep our perception of life and the outside world at all times. This awareness makes us sensitive and insightful, so that photos can leave a deep impression on people. Everyone has different life experiences, different preferences, different feelings and different angles of thinking. It doesn't matter what others tell you to shoot. The important thing is to follow your heart, pick up your mobile phone and take pictures of the moments that touched you.
3. Propositional shooting
Give yourself a topic of shooting training every week, such as paying special attention to all kinds of lines in life this week and focusing on shapes or colors or light and shadow next week. Sharp observation is not innate, but cultivated through long-term conscious training, which I am still doing now.
The other is to ask yourself to shoot the same object from different angles. This is also a very good training to cultivate photographic thinking. When you get into the habit of watching from different angles, you can shoot unique works even if you shoot too many scenic spots. We often say that photographers should have a pair of eyes that are good at discovering. These eyes are not born, but cultivated and exercised. As long as I have time, I will do some such little exercises. For example, I bought two red calla lilies two weeks ago and took the following photos from different angles and styles.
This is a very quiet light and shadow exercise.
In addition to realistic exercises, I will also do creative shooting. This is a clear picture after the slow door of longexpo mobile phone is blurred. Photography is a mirror, but it not only reflects the facts, but also reflects our inner feelings and imagination. "Flowers are not flowers, fog is not fog, midnight comes and dawn goes" is the flower in my heart.
The above are some suggestions of the subject: shoot what you like, shoot scenes that impress you, and then do some training in proposition shooting.