Back To Basics: Photography

Jul 05

Back To Basics: Photography

You know what it means for a team to go into what is called a rebuiling year.This is when coaches and owners decide it is time to correct bad habits in people and train new ones as well.All teams leadership say when they go to such a circumstance is they are going back to the basics.”

Sometimes it’s good for us as photographers to go back to basics of digital photography .The basics are the place to start if you want to learn the ropes especially if you are just getting started in the world of photography.You need to know the basics that all the professionals know about the craft of photograghy.

Anyone can take pictures. I attended a wedding reception where the wedding party left a disposable digital camera on each table at the reception for guests to snap photos. Before the evening was over, it was the children who were running around taking pictures of everything from the dirty dishes to their own underwear. These were not photographers and while those pictures will no doubt get a few chuckles, these are not the kind of professional pictures people want for their long-term memories.

It goes without saying that the camera is the conerstone of basics of digital photography . When you see a camera geek walking around with enough equipment on his neck to launch a space shuttle, you get the impression that cameras are phenomenally complex, more than mere mortals can grasp.If you watch you’ll notice that professionals use relatively easy to operate and portable cameras.The reason is that aperture and shutter speed are the basics of operating a camera.

Now don’t get nervous about fancy terms.The camera lens lets lgiht into the camera and how wide open it is set to is called the aperture.The shutter speed is the amount of time you allow light to enter the lens and in turn affect the picture. For getting a shot of a fast moving event, you want a wide aperture to let in a lot of light but a short shutter speed so you capture the event quickly and close the window so the picture is caught before more light hurts the quality.

Photography is really all about light.You need to learn about flash photography and lenses in order to learn how to control the lighting in a shot. So add to your core skills of photography a willingness to never stop learning.You will learn more as your ability to work with the equipment becomes better and more sophisticated and you will want to learn more.

You can get a greater control over these basic controls of the camera such as aperture and shutter speed by learning how to switch from automatic settings to manual settings.Every camera has automatic settings but they were only created for the general public because they are not really interested in learning the basics.You will learn some basic setting like sports settings, portait and landscape settings as well.Different situations require different settings and you learn which works best when you switch to manual.

We now come to the concept of practice which is the most important basic of digital photography to becoming a great photographer.Take the time to play with and learn your equipment. Take it to situations and take photos with different aperture and shutter speed settings, in outdoor and indoor settings and different orientations to light. Don’t get upset when some shots don’t work.There is a learning to everything and this is part of it.

The best way to build your confidence in order to become a great photographer is to learn by doing.Never become cocky, you can always learn more. And that is one of the fun things about photography, isn’t it?

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