Let's ask a question first. Have you been cheated by Little Red Book's "photo cheating"?

Maybe you will think of the "blue house" photo fraud incident some time ago. It is like a fuse. After it was ignited, many people released similar experiences one after another.

And I stepped on thunder myself. The reason why I was cheated was that I didn't do too much strategy and preparation, and blindly believed the notes shared by bloggers. Later, I will also think: Why can't I take beautiful photos like others?

So I'd like to give you some suggestions here, in order to prevent the subsequent reduction in the number of times of being cheated. In addition, it is necessary to improve my ability to distinguish between true and false photos and my photography skills ~

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Don't rely too much on Xiaohongshu.

Everyone has a love of beauty, and everyone yearns for a better life. Take tourism as an example, we can see more people and scenery from the perspective of bloggers.

However, with excessive late stage and exaggerated decoration, it is necessary to package a certain place in China into a small Kamakura and a small Switzerland ... to rely on the scenery abroad, but it is not necessary. China itself is beautiful.

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Secondly, tourist destination and photography scenic spot are two completely different concepts. If you go to a certain film effect, you will feel the difference between the network and reality again and again, and you will be disappointed.

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Improve photography aesthetics

We all like to see beautiful things, which is why young people love to brush little red books. However, in order to prevent being cheated, we still need to improve the aesthetics of photography and the cognition of pictures.

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First, you can watch a documentary. Because documentaries are good at pursuing truth and exploring mysteries, we watch more camera shots inside, and then look back at the little red book, which will produce an objective judgment on the photos.

If you like to watch the scenery, you might as well watch Aerial Photography of China, roof of the world and Scenery of Time ... which will make you know that some places are really beautiful as paradise and really feel the beauty.

Or if you like food very much, and want to travel to check out local food, you can go to see "Flavor World" and "Street Taste: Asia" ... The regional culture hidden behind each food will make you yearn for it.

In addition, watching documentaries is also very helpful to improve the understanding and understanding of photography, such as Salt of the Earth and Looking for vivian maier ... The camera lens immersed in it is simply a visual feast ~

Compared with some small red books, we should watch less photos and watch more excellent works to broaden our horizons.

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Besides watching documentaries, it's OK to look at photos. The most convenient thing is that we have an "aesthetic note" every week, which is helpful to improve everyone's photography aesthetics. Click the link to jump to the collection of aesthetic notes. "link"

Whether reading aesthetic notes or photography websites, you should also learn to collect photos while reading them. Create a new folder in your mobile phone photo album, and collect 10 favorite photos regularly every day and save them in the folder.

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After a week or even a month, you will find that the quality of the photos has changed, and you have also changed your aesthetic sense of the photos.

Everyone's aesthetics are different at each stage, and the process of collection needs to be adhered to. Subsequent photos can also be classified to distinguish which ones are post-synthesis, so it will not be easy to be "deceived".

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Learn to use photography skills

In the experience of "cheating" that Xiaohongshu encountered, some netizens also suggested that "instead of breaking the filter like a detective, why not learn from these bloggers who have a pair of eyes to discover beauty?"

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Proper retouching and adding filters are ways to present beauty, but excessive beautification and false marketing will be offensive, truth is more important than marketing, and recording life is more important than pleasing others.

In addition, everyone wants to take good-looking photos, and they really need to be good at discovering beautiful things and using some photography skills.

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Looking for parts

For example, the beautiful picture you see is like this:

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Go to the scene and find it like this:

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I thought it was a large-scale color venue, but I didn't expect it to be just a photo punching point in the community. But we can aim at its "smallness" and use the technique of local shooting to make a film.

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Local close-up is also a kind of subtraction photography, which uses the telephoto lens of the mobile phone to make the picture more concise and the visual sense will look advanced.

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The output of a good-looking photo also depends on the weather and light. Like the picture below, we can use the perspective of a super wide-angle lens to shoot parts of walls and stairs, showing the tension of the picture and forming a color contrast with the sky. Isn't it nice~

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Or use window frames to frame parts of the scene, so as to highlight the main body and enhance the story of our photos.

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Look for prospects

So if you are planted with grass at a punch point, how can you make the photos more vivid and interesting?

We might as well try foreground composition, for example, punching a flower sea, which can center buildings or figures, and then use flowers and plants as the foreground to create a sense of visual space and increase the level of the picture.

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You can also use the "silk flowing water" mode of the mobile phone to make the flowers appear dynamic and fuzzy, adding more vitality to the plain scene, but you need to stabilize the mobile phone to keep the main body of the picture clear.

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Secondly, form a circle with pages and put it in front of the camera to form a foreground composition, which can better highlight the main body. This kind of creative punching photo is too porridge!

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Find the guide line

In addition, we should be good at finding lines in life and know how to use lines to compose pictures, such as roads, tunnels and other elements, which can extend the visual focus to the distance and expand the sense of space in the picture.

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In some places with revolving stairs, we can turn on the mobile phone with super wide angle, use the super wide angle perspective effect to shoot down, and lead the line of stairs to the main body to enhance the depth of the picture, so that your photos will be different ~

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Find duplicate elements

We can also observe the repeated structural elements in life, such as buildings, large areas of flowers, green plants and so on. Although they look exactly the same or similar, they can produce the best visual effect.

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Repetitive composition can highlight the formal beauty of the picture, like the umbrella in the picture, forming a certain rhythm, which makes the photo feel fresh.

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Instead of trying to accept the beauty in other people's eyes, it is better to find what we think is beautiful. This is a test of our usual observation and a process of cultivating our own photographic eyes.

Ok ~ share it with more friends around us. Let's avoid the pit and take the photos we want at the same time!