Hobby photography. Photography is a hobby for women who see beauty

photo from Viktor Sedov's archive

A photo for a child can become much more than just pictures for Instagram. Seriously carried away by photography, he will be able to immerse himself in wonderful world photography, develop your creativity and technical skills. How to turn a passing passion for photography into a serious hobby?

Many mothers are looking for a hobby for their restless children so that their children do not sit days and nights at the computer screen or run around the yards, knocking their knees down. One of the most interesting and developing hobbies for them can be photography.

Children are much easier and faster than adults to master the device of the camera and the rules of artistic photography. And to teach a child to work in Photoshop is a mere trifle. A modern child has been confronted with various electronic devices since childhood and therefore masters them very simply and quickly. Therefore, photography can become an exciting activity for him, allowing him to master a lot of new knowledge and skills.

Let's first talk about how to get children aged 7-10 interested in photography.

Photography as a hobby: where to start?

Give your child a simple camera. In any case, such a gift will arouse interest and a desire to “click” everything around. But whether it develops into a hobby or becomes just a hobby for a couple of weeks is up to you.

Your main task is not to discourage desire. Ideally, the photo should “hook” the child. And after he likes the very process of pressing the button and the appearance of the picture, you will gradually be able to direct him, point to the shooting modes, to right choice camera settings, and then smoothly move on to composing and framing the frame.

An important rule: "do not rush and do not push." In my experience as a teacher, many parents like to tell their children what to photograph, and the children perceive this as pressure. Photography is not a compulsory school subject, like reading or arithmetic, and it is always worth treating it as a pleasant and useful, but not mandatory pastime. Ideally, you should give your child complete freedom to choose what and when to shoot. Wants - takes pictures, does not want - does not take pictures.

It is best to take a camera for a walk with a child. Let him take pictures of everything that he likes or is of interest.

photo from Viktor Sedov's archive

When to Direct the Process

So, the first stage has been passed: for a couple of weeks, your child has been constantly stopping for a walk in search of a good angle, and at this moment you are patiently waiting (by the way, this is a very necessary skill, especially with frequent stops).

Now you can not only look at what happened together, but also select those frames that the child considers the most successful. The main criteria are that the picture should not be blurry or overexposed (so that there is no technical defect that catches the eye).

Simply put, you just need to copy all the photos taken during the day to a computer, and then make a selection. Copy the most successful photos to a separate folder "Selected" (at the same time teach your child the simplest operations with files and folders).

First, you need to evaluate photos according to the criterion "quality-poor quality" and only then enter the criterion "artistic-non-artistic" (in other words, we leave only visually "beautiful" photos).

photo from Viktor Sedov's archive

Photography as a hobby: developing artistic taste

I can congratulate you: the hardest part is over. The child is seriously fascinated by the process of photography.

Now it's worth doing artistic development child. Go to an art exhibition together one weekend. For children 7-10 years old, the Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane is best suited. Choose a room with paintings that are clear in the plot. The work of Ivan Shishkin, for example, is always clear to both children and adults. No one will be indifferent to his landscapes, reflecting the beauty of Russian nature.

Older children (12-14 years old) will like more the works of the Impressionists or Expressionists, which can be viewed in the Gallery of European and American Countries (near the Pushkin Museum).

Do not overload the child with information, watch no more than 4-5 rooms. Otherwise, the pleasure of a joint cultural program will turn into hard labor. After the gallery, be sure to discuss which paintings the young photographer liked the most.

photo from Viktor Sedov's archive

When should you take a photography course?

If your child is already 12 years old, he will tell you that he wants to study. And it is from this age that I recommend acquiring a more or less serious and expensive camera. If a teenager is seriously carried away, it is unlikely that he will quickly abandon his chosen hobby.

Another thing is young children. I would recommend choosing a specially adapted children's photography course for them, and always an individual one. The teacher should be a specialist in working with children, and not just in photography. University students and ambitious youth are not suitable here. We need someone who can find a common language with the child and not scare him away. Let the classes last for 2-3 hours, but always with practice and breaks for tea and discussion of work. It is desirable that the teacher comes to you, this will allow you to study in a familiar and comfortable environment.

The pleasure of taking photographs is the main thing in teaching photography to children. Keep this in mind, and I hope that photography becomes something more than just a hobby for you and your child.

Do you see more than just your own face in the photos and carefully evaluate the frame before you click the shutter? Then take a closer look at the camera as a new hobby that will give you pleasure and the opportunity to earn money.

Camera in mobile phone Everyone has one, but some people click insanely at everything that comes into view, while others use the camera to capture a unique frame and capture the beauty of nature or an interesting event. If you like beautiful compositions and annoying chaos in photographs, then a new hobby should definitely appear in yours - photography.

First steps towards photography

To engage in amateur photography, it is not necessary to have an expensive super model of the apparatus of the last years of production. You can get good pictures even on the most ordinary mobile phone with a camera. Try to exercise. See what grabs your attention, what shots work best, what subjects you are more interested in.

First of all, you should pay attention to the "beauty" of the moment. Be sure to note how well you managed to “catch” the frame, harmoniously fit the background into the lens frame.

It happens that the moment was successful, and the lighting, but the camera was held a little crookedly in the hands, someone extra got into the frame, the object was chosen a little wrong. Learn to see the big picture Remove everything from the frame e, and all important items should be placed in it completely.

A very unfortunate shot in which there is no central figure and a lot of superfluous.

Try taking multiple shots of the same exposure from different angles and then compare them. Soon you will see that professionalism will begin to grow in proportion to the efforts invested. And if some mistakes are repeated constantly, and you can’t understand what the reason is, you can always consult professionals on thematic forums.

On the web you can find free courses, revealing the basics of photography for beginners. Here, for example, is a free trial lesson. Do not be lazy to study and learn new things.

Food photos should not contain ugly items. The plate spoils the frame.

After beautiful shots start to turn out, and the capabilities of the phone or the “soap box” will be missed, you can think about buying good camera. However, it is important to know that working with professional equipment is somewhat more difficult than with amateur devices equipped with automatic and preset settings.

Print your the best photos on paper and collect them in albums. A photo on a computer and a photo on hand are two different things. Draw conclusions, note shortcomings, consult. After some time, you will see for yourself that the quality of your pictures will be better than it was at the very beginning.

If your passion for photography is hindered by a lot of work, workloads, the need to constantly pay attention to your family, then learn in which you will only do your own thing.

Ask your family to pose for you, take them with you to nature, to an exhibition where it is not forbidden to take photos. Pay attention to the icons that are in crowded places. If photography is not allowed, this will be indicated.

Even ordinary icicles can be photographed interestingly

How to make money with photography

To show the world your masterpieces, you can post your photos on a blog, participate in photo exhibitions or charity auctions. But it makes sense to think about material benefits. Desire occurs in 70% of people and there is nothing wrong with that.

After all, it is not in vain that they say that a business that goes well is simply obliged to feed the owner. Is it possible to make money with photography? More than realistic, but it's easier for beginners to do it on the Internet.

The ability to take beautiful pictures is sure to come in handy if you are engaged in knitting, sewing, embroidery or other types of needlework and want to sell your work. Without high-quality pictures, it will be more difficult to do this! With a camera in hand and the skills to work with it, you will be able to sell cooking, creating crafts from coffee, sewing soft toys.

Photobanks as a source of income

One of the many niches where one could test the sufficiency of one's professionalism to receive a monetary equivalent is photobanks. Simply put, you can use the services of Internet sites with free (as a rule) placement of your photos on them.

How to choose a photobank? There are a lot of options here, the Internet is literally replete with offers from various sites. What you should pay attention to? The main difference between photobanks is the conditions for the posted photos, and for the methods of withdrawing the funds earned by the authors. Get to know them.

Before you make money on photos on the Internet, you need to carefully study the criteria for posting photos and the requirements for them in photobanks. Otherwise, your time may be wasted. This is a business, and the conditions of the intermediary must be reckoned with. Site owners are very pedantic in describing parameters on their pages with restrictions on quality and subject matter for the accepted goods.

Please note that if you involve a photobank in the circle of your interests, the quality of the device with which the photo was taken can become very significant. His specifications will certainly affect the cost of the image, and the possibility of placing the latter in the database in general.

Goods with initially unsatisfactory parameters are not allowed to be sold. Your photos could go with a bang on your personal blog, readers could admire them. But, for example, a picture size of 2048x1536 pixels for sale is most likely not suitable.

If the photo is still not allowed to be sold, do not be discouraged. Try creating a new collection. The mediator will never advise you anything extra. He, like you, is interested in obtaining a guaranteed and stable income. Listen to the comments, if any, will be sent to your address after creating a personal profile in the database.

After registration in the photo bank, in addition to the details personal account, provide a referral link to this site. By posting it on the Internet, by mail, wherever you consider it possible, you will additionally get a chance to earn money by attracting new customers to the intermediary site in this way. For which you will definitely receive an appropriate reward from him. Maybe not very big, but well-deserved and pleasant.

Be sure to pick up some more for your soul, pleasure and!

Nikitina Ksenia

I have several hobbies and it's very cool! While some of my classmates miss the evenings, I'm doing my favorite activities: English language, gymnastics or photography. I am desperately short of time. You can talk about each of these hobbies for hours, but in this presentation I talk about only one of them - photography.

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FOR ME, PHOTOGRAPHY IS CREATIVITY AND SELF-EXPRESSION NIKITINA KSENIA 9 B CLASS MOU "School № 53 KSENIA

goals Relevance: photography can become a favorite activity not only for me, but also for other guys. Purpose: self-realization and self-expression. Subject of study: photography Hypothesis: people who have a favorite hobby are much more self-confident than those who do not. KSENIYA

A person has always been drawn to the beautiful, the beauty seen, a person tried to give shape. In poetry, it was a form of words, in music, beauty had a harmonic sound basis, in painting, the forms of beauty were conveyed by colors and colors. The only thing a person could not do was capture the moment. For example, to catch a breaking drop of water or lightning that cuts through a stormy sky. With the advent of the camera and the development of photography, this became possible.

For me photography is a diary. The story of my life in people, events, moods, views on what is happening.

When photographing, I try to understand, capture, feel all the complex emotions that people experience at different moments of their lives. Photography is a good hobby. Being engaged in photography, you can discover completely new facets of life. To catch the elusive flapping of a butterfly's wings or a formidable lightning bolt, to capture the tender look of your mother - for this it is worth taking pictures.

Children occupy a special place in my photographs. It is so interesting to watch them that I really want to capture them in my photographs. Children do not know how to hide their emotions and they are so natural, not simulated, that I always take my camera in my hands.

What is photography for me? It seems to me that this is a language in which one can communicate. Clear to all, accessible to all. With their help, I try to convey the emotions that I myself experience.

And emotions arise literally from everything seen. And there are many moments I want to keep in my memory. This is where the camera comes to the rescue. I was lucky that every year my parents and I visit different countries. As a memory from all the corners where we visit, I bring a huge number of photographs. Cities often have their own unique "charm" or even "soul", something that sets them apart from other cities. The best cityscapes always convey that personality, that spirit, although it's not always an easy task. My parents and I love to travel and our friend, the camera, is always with us.

In this photo you see the Pyramid of Kukulcan on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Tourists often remember the Egyptian pyramids, but there is little information about the Kukulkan pyramid. She is not inferior in her beauty Egyptian pyramids. The length of the sides of the pyramid is 55 meters, and its height is 30 meters, and 365 steps leading upstairs, symbolizing the days of the year. Every year, on the days of the spring and autumn equinoxes (September 23 and March 21), one can observe the unique spectacle of the “feathered serpent” - the shadow from the stepped edges of the pyramid falls on one of the stairs. At the same time, it seems that a snake is crawling along it, up in March and down in September. The end of the stairs, in keeping with this effect, is surmounted by a stone serpent's head.

Sometimes we look for beauty abroad and do not notice the beauty around us! But our hometown of Saratov is no worse! Look at these wonderful photos of your hometown!

I am sure that it is beauty that encourages justice, kindness, mercy, moral purity and harmony with the surrounding world. Closely interacting with beauty, a humane person is formed, with a beautiful, lively and creative soul.

I love to observe nature very much. There is a very good saying Ansel Adams. “Not everyone believes in painting, but everyone believes in photography”

According to some, a photographer is a lazy or failed artist. I completely disagree with this. Without creativity and the ability to see beauty in everyday things, it is impossible to become a pro.

Photographers need to be patient on the one hand, and have a quick response on the other. For example, a photo hunt can last several hours. Sometimes, in order to capture an interesting pose of an animal, a rare bird or an insect, it is necessary to lie still or sit in an uncomfortable position somewhere in a swamp or sit on a tree. Such expectations will surely be rewarded with unique pictures!

It would seem that it could be easier than becoming a photographer. Just something: buy an expensive high-quality camera and shoot, shoot everything. But such reasoning is rather naive. Being a photographer is not so easy and safe.

Amateur photography is rather not even a hobby, but a call of the heart, a state of mind. Starting to photograph, I began to look at the world around us in a slightly different way than everyone else - reverently and with great love!

I think the best shot is the one I'm about to take. KSENIYA

How many of us are there who admire professional works photographers who look and think: “Talent!!! I would like that. Is it possible to do that with my soap dish?!” So I'll tell you a story, my story, about myself as a "talent". It all started with the fact that my MCH (young man) decided to take up photography. I bought a camera, they gave him books (fortunately, his birthday was just around the corner), he played for a couple of months and quit. No, he turned out great (here, for example, my photo in his performance), but there was no opportunity to do this often in order to develop skills. And then, without hesitation, I took the “toy” from him, connected my friends - “models” and began to study. At first, it didn’t work out very well, to be honest, it’s either crooked, or oblique, or the angle is not the same. But then I got used to it, a lot of ideas appeared, a lot of thoughts, and my friends were only happy - a free photographer, which you don’t need to be ashamed of (usually models are embarrassed and it takes time to liberate them)

Then I read books, saw enough professional photos - this is a must in order to understand what you would like to achieve, so to speak, set a goal for the future; what style do you like, to understand what you like best: portrait shots, landscapes, still lifes, etc. I poked around in all sorts of photo editing programs and was surprised at how simple everything was. Of course, I can’t say that I am a super photographer - everything needs to be learned and there is no limit to perfection. But judge for yourself: I understood for myself, here's what you need to take a photo: 1. Desire 2. Models that are in fire, and in water, and in snow, and in rain ... 3. Look at the world, as if through a lens ( I’m going to work on the bus, I look around, at people’s faces and imagine what kind of photo I can get) 4. The presence of “malicious” critics is a must. When someone makes comments, you yourself understand the mistakes and try to avoid them in the future. 5. And most importantly, any camera. Truth. Whether it's a phone or a super SLR, it doesn't matter. The main thing is all of the above, and the camera is practically the last thing. If you have not decided to immediately receive huge money for your work. For myself, I decided that I would remain an amateur. Because if you get money, you will have to take pictures of everyone who pays. And even if you are too lazy to process photos or you are simply not in the mood to work today, you still have to - or you will lose your earnings. And so for your soul and your friends - how nice it is when everything gives pleasure. And sincere thanks with Vkontakte signatures: “Thanks to Yulia for making me feel like a model. Gorgeous photos "... This is the most exciting, that's when you want to create ...

In fact, any person seeks to somehow realize himself: in work, in a family or in a hobby. The latter can be the most diverse - someone collects stamps, someone knits, and someone takes pictures. V last years The passion for photography began to gain momentum again, probably due to the development of technologies in this area.

Capturing the world around us is quite an interesting activity. Another question is that the quality of pictures is sometimes far from ideal - after all, few people have an idea about the correct lighting, composition, contrast, brightness, focus, and the like. But today this gap can be filled by visiting special sites dedicated to photography.

What is photography?

Photography is photography, the process of capturing a moment in time. If we speak scientific language, then photography is the transfer of an image of an object onto paper or a digital medium using light and physical and chemical processes.

Film or digital?

Film photography first appeared, created using photographic materials on which photochemical processes are carried out. Then came the turn of digital photography - electronic, produced with the help of electric charges. The debate about which cameras are better is still ongoing. But you need to understand that digital photography differs from film photography not only in technology, but also, so to speak, in ideology.

If for film cameras the main result is the photograph itself, the print on paper, then with digital photography The original is a digital graphic file. But to believe that a digital camera, due to its modernity, is better than a film camera is a mistake. Yes, the optics used in them are of higher quality, but other things being equal, the objective quality of the film is always higher.

Features of digital photography

Digital photography has gained its popularity due to the following advantages:

• the ability to control the image quality at any stage (which is completely excluded in film cameras);
• savings on paper and film - after all, we print only good photos, and the memory card holds a very large number of pictures;
• the ability to change the parameters of the photo after taking the picture;
• no need to digitize slides for their wider use.

Color or black and white?

There are color and black-and-white photographs, and each type has its own advantages and disadvantages. Black and white photographs emphasize the composition and subject of the frame, so the creation of such a photograph requires more art than color. But, of course, where it is important to convey color and tone contrast, to build a game of environment colors, black and white photography surrenders positions colored.

Optional equipment

In order for your hobby (and for someone it then gradually develops into profitable business) was successful, buying a camera and a bag for it is not enough at all. It all depends on the direction in which your hobby is organized: you specialize in portrait photography, group photos, like to shoot events or take aerial photographs. Each type of photography needs its own specialized equipment, which may include: additional lenses, lighting (special flashes or a stationary lighting system), protective and polarizing filters, a tripod, macro rings and some other equipment.

Printing photos is also an important step. Photo from film cameras is such a complex and delicate process that only a separate article can be devoted to its creation. Printing photos from digital media can be done in several ways: on your own using an inkjet or sublimation printer, or in a photo lab (which are also amateur and professional).

What you choose depends on your capabilities. But know that your hobby can open up new facets of life that you have not explored, and if you wish, it will easily grow into real art, highly valued by your and not only your surroundings.