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- Shoot every day Like any skill, the more you do it, the better you can get. The best camera you have is the one in your hand, so if you aren’t out with your full DSLR kit, don’t be afraid to take great photos with your cell phone camera or a point-and-shoot.
- Always have your camera near Pull up a chair and I can describe two amazing scenes that have been indelibly embedded in my mind. Unfortunately, for the first, my camera was broken (I was at sea, far from a camera store).
- Read your manual Camera manuals aren’t engaging reading, but they do tell you a lot about how to use your camera. Spend a night or two with your manual and get intimate with your camera.
- Check your settings / know your gear I have often been tempted to put the following note on a sticker and affix it to my LCD screen: “Check your ISO, dummy.”
Apr 30, 2023 · You should study their work, study their compositions and how they interpreted light. The same goes for all other types of photography – understanding and knowing masters of particular photography genres will help you in shaping who you are today and where you will be tomorrow.
- Choose A Camera That Suits Your Shooting Needs
- Shoot in golden-hour Lighting For The Best Tones
- Shoot in Cloudy Light to Enhance Your Colors
- Use Frontlight to Evenly Illuminate Your Subject
- Use Backlight For Deeply Dramatic Images
- Use Sidelight to Bring Out Texture
- Use The Rule of Thirds to Balance Your Compositions
- Carefully Choose The Best Aperture For The Scene
- Use A Fast Shutter Speed For Sharp Images
- Create Impressionistic Photos with Slow Shutter Speeds
When it comes to capturing beautiful photos… …there’s no perfect camera. Instead, the best camera depends on your own shooting needs. It depends on whether you want to capture portraits or wildlife, landscapes or travel photos. But here’s a few quick recommendations: The cameras that combine power and affordability are DSLRs and mirrorless cameras....
Great photos start with great light. And the absolute best light of all, the light that photographers love… …is golden-hour light. Now, the golden hours refer to the hour or two after sunrise, and the hour or two before sunset. During the golden hours, the sun is low in the sky. And it casts a beautiful golden glow over the entire scene. Which is e...
Golden-hour lighting works well in pretty much every photographic situation. But what if you don’t have golden-hour lighting? What then? Unfortunately, harsh midday lighting, when the sun is high in the sky, rarely looks good. But there’s one type of light that is great for a more subtle look: Cloudy light. You see, clouds diffuse the harsh sunligh...
Even once you’ve secured good light, you still have to make sure you use it properly. In particular: If you’re shooting in golden-hour light, then you have to pay attention to its direction. Does it come from behind you? In front of you? Off to the side? Light that comes from behind you to hit your subject is known as frontlight. This is a go-to ty...
Frontlight is great for producing an evenly lit photo. But what if you want something a bit more dramatic? That’s where backlight comes in. Backlight comes from behind your subject, and it gives you dramatic images, like this: Now, to take advantage of backlight, you have to shoot into the sun. So point yourself in the direction of the sunlight, an...
Sidelight is your third golden-hour lighting option. Now, sidelight is a bit less common than frontlight and backlight. This is because sidelight is good for one main thing: bringing out texture. Basically, sidelight comes from off to the side of your subject. It casts shadows in places where texture exists, which makes the texture stand out. You c...
The rule of thirds is a fundamental guideline of composition. It states: The best photos position their main subjects a third of the way into the frame. The rule of thirds comes with a set of helpful gridlines, like this: Basically, if you want to create a nice, balanced, satisfying composition, I recommend you place your main subject (and any othe...
The aperture is a hole in the lens of your camera. You control it via the dials on your camera. When the aperture is wide open, more light comes through the lens, and gives you a brighter photo (all else being equal). This is represented as a low f-number, like this: f/2.8, f/4, f/5.6, etc. And when the aperture is closed down, so that it’s very sm...
Shutter speed refers to the length of time the camera sensor is exposed to the light. In other words, your shutter speed is how long you actually take a picture for. Related Post: Working with Shutter Priority Now, if you use a slow shutter speed, it creates the potential for intense blur. Because so many things can happen while the shutter is open...
I know I said it’s important to use a fast shutter speed for sharp photos. And it is–usually. But you occasionally don’t want to capture sharp shots. Sometimes, you want to get more artistic photos, using something called Intentional Camera Movement (ICM). Here’s how it works: Select a slow shutter speed, something between 1s and 1/20s. Then take a...
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- Work with Your Composition. To take engaging photos, you need to be engaged with what you’re doing. Don’t just fly by on autopilot. Instead, put thought into your composition and try to make your photos as good as possible.
- Use the Camera You Already Have. Camera gear is not all that important. There are countless cameras, lenses, and other accessories on the market today.
- Learn Which Settings Matter. There are a lot of camera settings, and it takes some practice to get them right, especially as a beginner. Even advanced photographers won’t always do everything perfectly.
- Don’t Overexpose Highlights. When you are picking your camera settings, it is critical to avoid overexposing highlights in a photo. The reason? It’s simply impossible to recover any detail from white areas of a photo.
- How to capture great sunsets. Getting the most out of sunsets needs patience and timing. The best pictures are usually when the sun is close to the horizon and clouds are lit from below.
- Use hyperfocal distance for depth of field. You can maximise depth of field in landscapes by focusing at the 'hyperfocal' distance. This is where the far distance is at the far limit of your lens's depth of field, and this also gives you the best depth of field nearer the camera.
- Look for foreground interest. Wide-angle lenses are great for capturing wide, sweeping landscapes, but they can also capture lots of empty foreground, so look out for rocks, trees, gates or other objects you can include to add foreground interest.
- Blur waterfalls and rivers with long exposures. You can capture silky smooth water or softly blurred moving clouds by putting your camera on a tripod and using a long exposure.
... Feeling like your photography skills have plateaued? It happens to the best of us. One minute, you’re cruising along, picking up new techniques and elevating your sense of composition and light like a boss – and the next, you’ve hit a creative wall. But don’t worry!
Jan 13, 2022 · There’s nothing better than making a fresh start and the beginning of the new year is a great way to make some new year photography resolutions, assess your photography skills and put a plan into place to improve your shooting techniques.
