Photography Basics
Photography Basics: If you are a sports fan, you know what it means when a team enters the "rebuilding year". Only when the owner or coach decides it's time to train new members and correct bad habits in others. And always, what team leadership says when they enter such a period is that they will "get back to basics."
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Sometimes it's good for us as photographers to get back to basics. And, of course, if you are just starting out in the world of photography and want to learn "ropes", the basics are a natural start. But you want the basics of what professionals know about photography.
Anyone can take pictures. I attended a wedding reception where the wedding left a single-use digital camera on each table at the reception for guests to take photos. Before the night ends, children running around taking pictures of everything from dirty dishes to their own underwear. This is not a photographer and while the photos will definitely get some disappointment, this is not the kind of professional photo that people want for their long-term memory.
Obviously, the foundation of the basics of photography is the camera. When you see a camera geek walking around with enough equipment around his neck to launch a space shuttle, you get the impression that the camera is very complex, more than ordinary humans can understand. But look at professionals and you see them working with portable cameras that are relatively easy to operate. That's because the basics of running the camera go down to shutter speed and shutter.
Now don't worry about luxury requirements. Aperture is just a term for how wide your camera lens is open to let light enter. And the shutter speed is just how long you let the light in to affect the image. To get a shot of fast-moving events, you want the wide aperture to let a lot of light but a short shutter speed so that you capture the event quickly and close the window so that the image is captured before more light damages the quality.
Photography is really about light. You can and will learn a lot about lenses and flash photography and other ways to shift control over shooting lighting to you. So, add your core photography skills, the willingness to never stop learning. The better and more sophisticated your ability to work with equipment, the more you will learn and the more you want to learn.
You can get more control over the basic controls of this camera such as aperture and shutter speed by learning how to switch from automatic settings to manual settings. Automatic setup of any camera is only available to the general public who are not interested in learning the basics. So they give you some basic settings like landscape, portrait and sports settings. By switching to manual, you can learn what settings are most successful in different situations.
And that brings us to the most important foundation about being a great photographer and that is practice. Spend time with your equipment and play with it. Take it to the situation and take photos with different shutter speed and shutter settings, in different indoor and outdoor settings and light orientations. Don't be angry when some photos don't work. That's part of the learning curve.
By learning while doing, you will build confidence in your work and eventually become a great photographer. But don't be arrogant, there's always more to learn. And that is one of the fun things about photography, right?
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