Disclosed is a control method of a photographing apparatus, and the photographing apparatus comprises a touch control screen, and the method is characterized in that: the control method comprises the following steps: (a) detecting whether a user persistently touches a focusing point of the touch control screen for a special period of time; (b) if the judgment result of the step (a) is yes, controlling the photographing apparatus to execute an automatic focusing program to the focusing point; and (c) executing the automatic photographing program by the photographing apparatus. The invention also provides the photographing apparatus, the photographing control method and the photographing apparatus can realize automatic photographing after completing the automatic focusing through detection and judgment according to an act of operation to the touch control screen by the user, thereby improving the humanized operation flow of photographing and the photographing apparatus, offering better photographing quality, and avoiding the problem of adverse effect caused by shaking the photographing apparatus by the user in the prior art.