摄影零基础的同学看《纽约摄影学院摄影教材》是什么感觉？

这个问题就是为我准备的吧！至今刚好接触摄影一个月。

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事情是这样的，公司要更新产品图册，老板对之前花大钱拍摄的图片很不满意，遂琢磨着自己人来拍摄。这个任务落到我这个从未接触过摄影的菜鸟身上。一穷二白也得硬着头皮上呀！怎么办？当然是从最基础的知识补起。

以我的理念，这类知识的学习一定可以在网上学得到。开始就不停的游荡于论坛之间，可是很快就发现这样不行啊。因为别人说景深，我不懂是什么，OK，维基一下，哦？里面又提到焦距，不懂，再来维基。可是这样在一个一个概念点间跳跃，依然不能很好把握他们之间的关系。我就在想有没有从相机的原理讲起，对这些基础知识有一个系统讲解的这么个教程。后来就看到了广为推荐的《纽摄》。5.29 收到亚马逊货，一翻之下，不胜欢喜！从小孔成像说起，镜头、焦距、景深、曝光、构图……依次讲来，这些基础性的原理与概念便慢慢的串起成一个系统。知识系统性的串接是最有利于理解掌握的，在这个方面，《纽摄》做的很认真，作为一本教材是优秀的。

结合着相机说明书，边看边摆弄相机。从拿着相机无所适从到每个按钮每个功能渐渐清晰，《纽摄》的作用功不可没。就像@Brick Yang 所说，对于入门者，《纽摄》是一部很不错的打基础的书。

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PS.会写字跟作家是两码事儿，虽然最后拍摄了比先前图册好一点的照片，但比起最优秀的还差一大截。摄影这个东西必须是不停地去拍去想去积累经验，才能有一个水平逐渐的提升，没有捷径可走，器材帮不了，参数也帮不了。

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I’m writing this because I bought this in 1998 or so and I passed the course and earned a certificate, (yes an actual “hard copy” certificate) which did help me make residual income with my photography as well as a few contests won here and there. So what I’m saying is this is for the people that do want to learn how it was before there was digital format and how to learn to photograph things and develop film in a dark room or enter traditional photographic galleries where the artist or photographer uses different processes such as monochrome, or black-and-white silver halide based materials, color, full-spectrum, ultraviolet, infrared and use this knowledge for hobby purposes or another source of income. After all Ansel Adams did not acquire his fame and fortune from digital technology, did he? No he did not.

Here is a quote taken from Wikipedia on the subject of Fine Art Photography
As printing technologies have improved since around 1980, a photographer’s art prints reproduced in a finely-printed limited-edition book have now become an area of strong interest to collectors. This is because books usually have high production values, a short print run, and their limited market means they are almost never reprinted. The collector’s market in photography books by individual photographers is developing rapidly.
According to Art Market Trends 2004 (PDF link) 7,000 photographs were sold in auction rooms in 2004, and photographs averaged a 7.6 percent annual price rise from 1994 and 2004.[not in citation given] Around 80 percent were sold in the USA. Of course, auction sales only record a fraction of total private sales. There is now a thriving collectors’ market for which the most sought-after art photographers will produce high quality archival prints in strictly limited editions. Attempts by online art retailers to sell fine photography to the general public alongside prints of paintings have had mixed results, with strong sales coming only from the traditional “big names” of photography such as Ansel Adams.

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I found it interesting where it said, “Attempts by online art retailers to sell fine photography to the general public alongside prints of paintings have had mixed results, with strong sales coming only from the traditional “big names” of photography such as Ansel Adams.” They are implying that artists and photographers actually made more revenue selling at auctions and galleries rather than online? Hmmmm? I wonder why? Because it took more elbow grease to create what they made instead of what most people are trying to create today and just throw online for sale. Of course this is just my opinion.