I know how the photography changed over the past few years, the compacts are smaller but getting much more powerful, the DSLR's are much more reachable and is in much more demand that what it used to be 10 years.
It is shear love to capture the memory of a scene lifetime that makes the urge for you to click the snaps. So if you are bored, with those techniques, we can just ignore that for now and start at what you are most interested in - Taking pictures.
I am going to skip the compacts - they dont need you to read this tutorial, its like your smart phone, it just knows what to do and would mostly suggest you the changes itself!
1. Composition
Gear up, the ship is ready to sail!
So what should be your aim when you get your Compact/DSLR? put it on to auto mode - yeah, most of others hate it, but we are starting at it! So bare with me.
So get your cam, adjust the settings on your eyepiece and try getting a habit of looking the world through the 3cm hole - you can see the magic or may be not, but if you do see the magic then you are well ahead of the 50% who doesn't find it comfortable!
Good, now you are going to need a lot of practice to actually visualize a 5 foot scene on your 3cm or 3inch screen. That is when the true photography begins. Make up your mind on what you want to capture, focus on it - not the physical focus on the cam, but I mean the mental focus, think of what is special that you see in the image you are trying to capture, and when you think that image is on the 3cm or 3inch screen, stop thinking and click!
Ta da!!
That's your first snap!
And sorry to disappoint you, the first shot doesn't always look too good. Its always like that and very rarely does it do justice to the snap you intended to do, but that is what digital photography is for, go on and snap again - But wait, a moment:
So what went wrong, the common mistakes are:
* Photos are not showing the colors more brighter than you saw with your naked eyes - some may find it good, though.
* Photos are including more details than what you intended to show. More of the background or more people if you are shooting someone.
* Photos are not of the same color and style as your eyes saw! More whites or oranges - that is also appealing at times.
These are quite common, sometimes the automode does enhance the colors, or whites it out, but that doesn't matter at this point as we are getting friendly with the camera.
So go on with your clicks and do check the results and see what went wrong, but do not delete the pictures if you dont like them, may be when you put it on to the computer you may find those more interesting.
- Unknown Updated at: Thursday, December 27, 2012
