​Eight ways to improve your photography skills

Like any other profession or skill, canvas prints photography needs to be constantly improved, and as long as there is room for improvement, we should strive for even 1% improvement. Whether we regard ourselves as professional or amateur photographers, we should keep in mind the saying "learning never ends, climbing to new heights". However, we are often faced with the following dilemma: in the continuous shooting over the years, we often form an inherent shooting mode, and fall into our "comfort zone", and become no longer willing to change or difficult to find room for improvement. So, how can we make our photography technology to a higher level? Here are eight ways to practice your photography skills.

1. Shoot with a prime lens only

It has to be said that the appearance of zoom lens greatly facilitates our shooting work. By allowing us to freely change between different focal points, canvas prints au going out to shoot is no longer a manual labor that needs to carry a large number of lenses. While this apparent advantage has led more and more people to choose zoom lenses when buying equipment, traditional prime lenses still have their own unique advantages. One is that it can make us more diligent, or force us to go into the subject to take a closer look, or move back and forth to get the best Angle. So the next time you go out and shoot, we suggest that you carry only one prime lens and try to slow down in this fickle society and try a "slow down" approach to looking at yourself and your work more closely.

Shoot in the worst possible conditions

This may seem paradoxical, but as photographers we should be shooting under the best possible conditions, acrylic mounting online especially in light. But when it comes to honing your photography skills, it's a good way to shoot in the worst possible conditions. Not only does it help train us to deal with different situations, it also helps us to open up our minds and show more creativity. Remember, not every shot is perfect for professional photography. For example, if you are into landscape photography, you can try to shoot in cloudy or cloudy conditions.

3. Only a small amount of space is left in the memory card

One of the great advantages of digital photography is that we no longer have to worry about wasting film. In general, our memory CARDS have enough space to shoot for a full day or more, regardless of how many times we press the shutter during the shoot. However, this convenience can also be a reason for us to be lazy. If you could only take 24 photos a day, would you snap the shutter so carelessly? Taking a certain number of photos with limited storage space forces us to think hard about the composition, lighting, and focus of each photo. Of course, perhaps a more rigorous training would be to shoot on film, so we wouldn't even be able to get extra shots by deleting them.

4. Shoot "thesis with proposition"

Know that taking photos based on your own interests is very different from taking photos of a particular subject on behalf of a client. Therefore, we can also improve our photography skills by inviting others to arrange shooting tasks for us. Not only does this approach require us to be able to grasp the customer's ideas, but it also requires us to complete all the content on the customer's shooting list perfectly. We can do this by asking family or friends to assign tasks, treating it like a real job, remembering that they are clients and that they don't have to praise your work.

Try film photography

In most cases, film photography is a form of photography in which the result is not immediately visible when the shutter is pressed. So how do we know if our work is good or bad? The answer is that we won't know until we print it. There's no doubt that the advent of digital photography has greatly lowered the barriers to entry and made it easier for people to take pictures, but if you really want to test whether you're a good photographer, using film is the ultimate test. In addition to the limited number of shots mentioned above, we have to rely more on our intuition, eyes, skills and techniques to produce better pictures because we can't preview the results directly.

6. Timed shooting

Another great way to improve your shooting efficiency is to limit your time. Getting things done within a set time allows you to manage your time more consciously and effectively, and to be more organized. Before you do this, you first need to develop a theme (for example, shoot a specific market within an hour), and after training, your shooting speed and quality will improve dramatically.

7. Try new things

If you're already an experienced photographer, you may find that your photos start to look the same, or you may find yourself in what's called a "bottleneck." At this point you should probably remind yourself that instead of doing the same thing every day, try something completely different. If you're a wedding photographer, try to photograph landscapes. If you're a street photographer, try shooting sports themes. Not only will you learn more about new technologies this way, but you may also find new pleasures in them.

8. Give up the later processing return to the original

There is no doubt that in the digital age, post photography has become an integral part of the complete photography workflow. Less on the screen cutting, correction more may need to each part of the screen for individual embellishment and color correction. However, if you are really interested in improving your photography skills further, then I suggest that you need to learn to "take" a good photo rather than "create" one. In fact, custom photo aluminum print a good photo hardly needs post-processing. So why not try to shoot your own work without any post-production? This will test whether you are a qualified photographer.