Last month's Double Eleven, I took advantage of various discounts to store a bunch of photo books. You know, these books are usually too expensive to buy. Take it all this time. After reading it in one breath this month, I will summarize it for you and give my recommendation reasons. Tell everyone which books you should choose as a study guide if you want to make a blockbuster.

cultivate the key thinking of your unique style. In fact, photography is a way of recording the world around you. Whether the film is good or bad has little to do with the tools (that is, equipment) in hand, but more with the brain behind the camera. If your perspective is different, the film will naturally be different from others. This book chooses some themes: autumn, scenery, infrared ray, free travel, time delay, aerial photography and portrait. Through these, help you turn your ideas into images.

It is mentioned in this book that "photographic eyes" should not only use their eyes, but also use their heart, and not only shoot what they see, but also shoot what they think. The camera's viewing angle is very different from that of the human eye. Through the changes of focal length, perspective and shutter setting, it presents a very different scene from what the human eye sees. And we can use the camera to describe the scenes in our minds in the form of photos. If we can fully control the camera and have a pair of "photographic eyes", we can break through the bottleneck and shoot extraordinary works.

I have read so many books about the later period, and most of them tell you how to use Lightroom and Photoshop. So, then what? How much did you remember? How many applications do you have? You still haven't mastered the thinking and motivation behind the later period. The difference of this book is that the author deciphered the later period in reverse. Let me tell you first, through filming, you can analyze what features this film has and what later steps it has gone through, so as to improve your ability to analyze the film, drive you to actively analyze ideas before the later stage, and avoid you making a blind tune to the film in the software. This book has an in-depth analysis of many late features, and it is recommended for students who encounter bottlenecks in the later period to read it.

this book explains the preliminary process of food photography in depth. Mr. Miao Yun is a well-known cutting-edge commercial photographer of food still life in China, and has made food blockbusters for many well-known customers. This book details the preliminary steps of food photography, including setting, food modeling, lighting and shooting. It is a good reference book for people who want to know about food photography. I think the value of this book is that the knowledge in the book can be applied to still life photography. In life, we can use the knowledge in this book to make some good films and share friends, which is also a very interesting thing.

This book is really dedicated to Xiaobai users. Many small white users think of photography. Perhaps most scenes are to take some good photos when traveling. From the perspective of travel, this book starts with the basics and tells you how to take good photos during your trip. From the very beginning, I will teach you how to configure equipment, prepare for departure and shoot skills, and explain many topics such as scenery, architecture, humanities and nature. Even if you don't have any travel needs, I recommend using this book to lay the foundation.

The content of this book is a little more in-depth than the previous one. I suggest that students who have finished reading the first book read this one immediately. This book is very interesting, the whole article, taking the travel destination as the main line, tells you how to shoot the film in the corresponding place, like a guidebook. Tell you in chapters, where is the best place to go every month throughout the year. In the corresponding chapter, there is a corresponding photographer, who exposes his large films and teaches you how to shoot them.

The introduction of landscape photography is excellent, and all aspects of landscape photography are involved. The language is plain and close, and it is not dogmatic. In this book, the author attaches great importance to the concept and thinking of landscape photography, first standardizing the process, and then starting to shoot. On the contrary, the author doesn't pay much attention to the equipment. The equipment is just a tool in your hand, as long as you can use it well. What really restricts you is actually those ideas hiding behind the machine. In the book, the equipment of the fuselage lens is rarely described, and the tripod system and the filter system are more, which are the most important and easily overlooked equipment in the scenery. The practical cases in the later period of scenery in the book are quite valuable.

after you learn a certain level of portrait shooting, you must be inseparable from the help of the flash. When it comes to flash portraits, I'm afraid the whole world can't escape the old man joe McNally. He is a world-famous photographer, specializing in flash portrait shooting. In this book, he will teach you the creative application of small flash. This book, the old man focuses on telling you the application of hot shoe flash in photography. Firstly, the accessories related to flash are briefly introduced, then starting from single-lamp shooting, and finally expanding to double-lamp and multi-lamp shooting.

for photography, the most important thing is light. Joe has taken photos for more than 3 years and knows how to describe light, adjust light, render light, control light and guide light. This time, it tells us what creative applications the small flash has through Carving Light. This book is much thicker than Diary of Hot Boots, with a large number of samples and detailed descriptions. It tells us how these photos were taken from the first-person perspective, just like telling you a story. No matter how much you know about flash photography, you should be able to get some inspiration from the old man.

In the flash photography section, I introduced two books of Joe's father. This book "Behind the Moment" mainly reviews the shooting ideas and stories behind some classic photos he has taken on his photography road for more than 3 years. Help you figure out the ins and outs of shooting and learn some skills by the way. The uniqueness of this book lies in the "triangle learning method". First, I'll give you a concept, introduce a skill he has gained in his life, then give a classic work of his, explain the application of this skill, and finally tell you the story behind this photo.

As lovers of landscape photography, when we learn theoretical knowledge to a certain extent, there will always be a bottleneck period. It seems that I know almost everything. I feel like I'm frying cold rice when I continue to study the course, which wastes time and money and doesn't bring me much improvement. My composition, ideas and even later period are still in the same place, and there is no film. At this time, we need to watch more master films and update our photography ideas by reading more blockbusters. On Scenery is such a picture book. It is edited by China Photography magazine, summarizing the excellent works of several domestic landscape masters, and attaching the mental journey of photographers. This book doesn't explain the equipment, has no parameters of the film, and pays attention to ideas. Exquisitely printed, it is worth collecting and enjoying.

The author Xu Yinglong is a freelance photographer. When he was studying in England, he set himself a Flag, that is, he would make a film every day within one year, and only use a 5mm fixed-focus lens, with street shooting as the main theme. This book is the result of his street shooting this year. He focused on scanning the cultural scenes on the streets of England, which was quite human. From his films, we don't see any shooting skills or post-shooting techniques. On the contrary, we can learn from the author's shooting ideas and his way and perspective of observing the society, which is also the core ability of street shooting.

In the photography circle, ansel adams is a master, especially in the landscape photography circle. Adams traveled to Yosemite scenic spot with his parents since he was a child. At that time, he began to record the scenery there with his camera. One shot is more than ten years. There it produced many blockbusters and became famous in America after its publication. Adams's style emphasizes that the photos should be truthful and clear, with rich tones and distinct layers, and he doesn't like the overweight later period very much. What he is most famous for is the famous "zoning exposure method", which is the predecessor of our current landscape photography surrounding exposure and local exposure processing. There are still many people using it now. The sixth chapter of this book tells the essence of the idea of partition exposure in detail. Although many of them are based on the introduction of film exposure, the idea can still be used for reference.

Bresson is a French photographer. He likes to capture wonderful moments at any time with light equipment. Break the mirror, look with the naked eye, and think about the appearance of chaos before taking pictures, rather than escape. Bresson's style is unified and complete. He said that his interest never lies in photography "itself", but in the possibility it presents. By forgetting himself, he records the emotions of the subject in a fraction of a second and the beauty of the form of the picture. In other words, it is the beauty of the geometric structure evoked by the picture. This book is not thick, 88 pages. You can learn how Bresson views the world through this book.