{"slug":"beginner-to-pro-methodology","title":"从小白到职业，普通摄影师不会分享的学习与创作方法论！","author":"Thomas看看世界","date":"2022-02-20","wechat":"https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzI4NDA5MzE5NQ==&mid=2247494603&idx=1&sn=22459e08d671f45711aea551de44ab42&chksm=eb8215afdcf59cb9561ffc194139cce8eee5788b9e955f370ae4f159585b35bb76f18f1be59e&scene=21#wechat_redirect","blocks":[{"t":"h","x":"Thomas看看世界","xe":"Thomas Chu Photo"},{"t":"p","x":"如何从拍照小白自学成为职业摄影师？","b":false,"xe":"How does a complete beginner self-study their way to becoming a professional photographer?"},{"t":"p","x":"如何模仿其他摄影师的作品，并融合创新成自己的风格？","b":false,"xe":"How do you imitate other photographers' works, then fuse and innovate them into your own style?"},{"t":"p","x":"如何用风景摄影去讲好中国故事？","b":false,"xe":"How can landscape photography be used to tell China's stories well?"},{"t":"p","x":"这个视频是我前段时间在头条生机大会的演讲，和大家分享了一些自己的摄影学习方法论，和现阶段创作的一些思考~","b":false,"xe":"This video is my talk at the recent Toutiao Shengji Conference (头条生机大会), where I shared my methodology for learning photography and some reflections on my current stage of creation~"},{"t":"h","x":"视频","xe":"Video"},{"t":"bili","bv":"BV13b4y1t79j","bpic":"bili-1","bt":"从小白到职业，普通摄影师不会分享的学习与创作方法论！"},{"t":"p","x":"这一篇是上面视频的图文整理。这是 Thomas 在今日头条生机大会上的演讲：五年前他还是格子间里的程序员，后来成为职业风景摄影师、国家地理全球大奖得主。演讲完整分享了他的三条创作方法论——创作源于生活、模仿融合创新、不忘初心牢记使命。下文把演讲内容整理成五个章节，并配上现场关键帧。","xe":"This is the illustrated companion to the video above: Thomas's talk at the Toutiao Creator Summit. Five years ago he was a programmer in a cubicle; today he is a professional landscape photographer and a National Geographic global award winner. The talk lays out his three methodology pillars — creation comes from life, imitate-fuse-innovate, and stay true to your mission. The five chapters below reorganize the speech with keyframes from the stage.","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v02","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"01 从格子间到天地间","xe":"01 From the Cubicle to the Wild"},{"t":"p","x":"大一那年有了第一台单反，什么都拍，一个月后就失去兴趣，相机一锁一年多。转机出现在大二去德国交换：穿着牛仔裤、没有任何装备去爬几百米的小山坡，鞋全湿了，却从此从一千米、两千米、三千米一路爬到德国最高峰楚格峰（视频 1:19 处）。","xe":"He got his first DSLR as a college freshman, shot everything, lost interest within a month and locked the camera away for over a year. The turning point came with an exchange semester in Germany: climbing a few-hundred-meter hill in jeans with no gear, shoes soaked — then working up from 1,000- to 3,000-meter peaks until he summited the Zugspitze, Germany's highest (at 1:19 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v03","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"他发现摄影给了自己一个更深入观察生活的方式，以及不断探索未知的动力。第一台入门单反用了七年——他很早就明白：买更好的器材并不能让照片变得特别，把买器材的钱投入生活、探索更大的世界，照片才开始有了意思。于是有了第一条方法论：创作的源泉来自生活（视频 2:40 处）。","xe":"Photography gave him a deeper way to observe life and an engine for exploring the unknown. His entry-level DSLR lasted seven years — he understood early that better gear doesn't make photos special; spending that money on living, on a bigger world, is what made them interesting. Hence methodology one: creation comes from life (at 2:40 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v04","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"02 模仿：把细节琢磨透","xe":"02 Imitate: Obsess Over the Details"},{"t":"p","x":"2015 年，走过很多地方的他意识到自己水平平平、没有风格，于是选择「模仿—融合—创新」的路。模仿不是照抄，而是消化理解创作者的每一个细节。他喜欢荷兰山地摄影师 Max Rive，把对方所有作品存进手机反复分析构图与调色（视频 3:57 处）。","xe":"By 2015, having traveled widely but plateaued without a style, he chose the path of imitate–fuse–innovate. Imitation is not copying; it is digesting every detail of a creator's work. He loved the Dutch mountain photographer Max Rive and saved all his images to study composition and grading over and over (at 3:57 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v05","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"一个著名的例子：同样拍北欧峡湾日落、调色神似，他的照片总差一口气。反复琢磨后他发现——Max Rive 的人物上身是短款羽绒服、有结构感、显得有力量，下身却穿短裤，露出小腿肌肉，整个人精悍挺拔。后来他特意用「羽绒服＋短裤」的造型拍摄，果然好了很多。模仿就要细到这种程度（视频 4:38 处）。","xe":"A famous example: shooting the same Nordic fjord at sunset with near-identical grading, his picture still fell short. Studying obsessively he found it — Max Rive's figures wear short puffy jackets, structured and powerful, with shorts exposing calf muscles, the whole body taut and commanding. He later shot in the same 'down jacket plus shorts' outfit and the image improved at once. That is how detailed imitation must be (at 4:38 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v06","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"03 融合创新，直至世界大奖","xe":"03 Fuse and Innovate, All the Way to a World Award"},{"t":"p","x":"只模仿一位艺术家，那位艺术家就永远是你的天花板——齐白石说「学我者生，似我者死」。2018 年他开始大量看各种艺术家的作品，2019 年把学到的与自己格陵兰北极的拍摄结合。冰岛摄影师 Benjamin Hardman 用雪表现安静的氛围，让他特意选了冬天去格陵兰；美国摄影师 Todd Hido 善用夜景灯光与雨雾构造情绪，他便把路灯与屋内的灯光化作意象（视频 9:06 处）。","xe":"Imitate one artist only, and that artist stays your ceiling — as Qi Baishi said, 'those who learn from me live; those who copy me die.' In 2018 he began studying widely, and in 2019 fused what he learned with his Greenland Arctic work. The Icelandic photographer Benjamin Hardman, who uses snow for stillness, led him to choose winter for Greenland; the American Todd Hido builds mood from night lights and rain-fog, so streetlamps and glowing windows became his motifs too (at 9:06 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v07","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"把这些招数内化、再与自己的经历结合，就有了 2019 年拿下国家地理摄影大赛全球大奖的那张格陵兰村庄——有人物但不是 Max Rive 式的纯自然，有雪但更温暖，有灯光但情绪积极乐观。模仿、融合、创新，这是他的第二条方法论（视频 10:42 处）。","xe":"Internalized and fused with his own experience, this became the Greenland village image that won the 2019 National Geographic grand prize — figures but not Max Rive's pure wilderness, snow but warmer, lights with a positive, optimistic mood. Imitate, fuse, innovate: his second methodology (at 10:42 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v08","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"04 不忘初心，牢记使命","xe":"04 Stay True to Why You Started"},{"t":"p","x":"获奖后采访和商单接踵而至，忙碌一年后他反而陷入迷茫，也警觉到很多创作者巅峰之后就持续走下坡。小区宣传栏上的八个字点醒了他：不忘初心，牢记使命——初心是记住自己为什么出发，使命是把自己放进社会与时间的维度里，重新审视作品：十年之后它还有意义吗？对社会有没有一点点正向的促进？（视频 12:33 处）","xe":"After the award, interviews and commercial jobs flooded in; a year of rushing left him lost, and wary — so many creators decline right after their peak. Eight characters on a community billboard woke him: stay true to the original aspiration, keep the mission in mind. The aspiration is remembering why you started; the mission is placing your work in the dimension of society and time: will it still matter in ten years? Does it nudge the world, even slightly, toward better? (at 12:33 in the video)","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v09","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"h","x":"05 用摄影讲好中国故事","xe":"05 Telling China's Stories Through Photography"},{"t":"p","x":"2019 年末开始，他在国内持续深度拍摄。第一个系列「不一样的中国」思路是西学东用：黑金色调的摩登上海、卡通色调的敦煌沙漠、青色调玄幻风格的桂林山水——在国外社交媒体广受欢迎；他还用卫星地图看景、无人机找机位，在西藏山区发现了全新的视角（视频 14:12 处）。","xe":"From late 2019 he shot China deeply and continuously. The first series, 'A Different China', applies Western techniques eastward: black-gold modern Shanghai, candy-toned Dunhuang desert, cyan fantasy Guilin — widely loved on overseas social media; he also scouted with satellite maps and drone searches, finding fresh vantage points in Tibet's mountains (at 14:12 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v10","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"p","x":"2020 年中的火车上，从西宁到格尔木的一路戈壁荒漠里，他看到信号塔、公路、化工厂与风电场——中国人民的力量感扑面而来。于是有了《火车看中国》：不只展现漂亮风景，更从普通人的视角认识中国——趴在行李上睡着火车工程师、站上平衡车修路的工人、复兴号开通第一天带着全家体验商务座的藏族老爷爷。车窗内外，是一个蓬勃发展的文明型国家（视频 16:00 处）。","xe":"On a train from Xining to Golmud in mid-2020, amid the Gobi's signal towers, highways, chemical plants and wind farms, he felt the force of the Chinese people. That became 'Seeing China by Train': not just pretty scenery but China understood from ordinary people's view — an engineer asleep on his luggage, road workers on balance scooters, a Tibetan grandfather treating his family to business class on the Fuxing train's first day. Inside and outside the window: a civilization-state in full bloom (at 16:00 in the video).","b":false},{"t":"img","f":"v11","w":852,"h":480},{"t":"quote","x":"1. 创作的源泉来自生活——照片不够特别，往往不是器材问题，而是生活还不够特别；2. 模仿要深入细节，融合要跨越天花板：学我者生，似我者死；3. 不忘初心牢记使命不是口号——把作品放进十年后、放进社会中检验；4. 用自己的镜头讲好脚下土地的故事，创作才有持久的生命力。","xe":"1. Creation comes from life — when photos lack character, it is rarely the gear; it is that your life lacks character; 2. Imitate down to the details, fuse across ceilings: those who learn live, those who copy die; 3. 'Original aspiration and mission' is no slogan — test your work against ten years on, and against society; 4. Tell the story of the land beneath you through your own lens, and your creation will endure."},{"t":"h","x":"高清视频：","xe":"HD video:"},{"t":"p","x":"https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV13b4y1t79j/","b":false,"xe":"https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV13b4y1t79j/"},{"t":"h","x":"PPT","xe":"PPT"},{"t":"img","f":"img-02","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-03","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-04","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-05","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-06","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-07","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-08","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-09","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-10","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-11","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-12","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-13","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-14","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-15","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-16","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-17","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-18","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-19","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-20","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-21","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-22","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-23","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-24","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-25","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-26","w":1080,"h":332},{"t":"img","f":"img-27","w":1080,"h":332}],"titleEn":"From Beginner to Pro: A Learning Methodology Others Won't Share"}