How to hold a CAMERA / MOBILE device to capture well?

Many photographers take photos but several of them; don’t know how to hold a camera during capturing or shooting as well. They even don’t understand what is meant by camera shake and blurry images. Successful Photographers use TRIPOD to resolve this issue regarding unstable Camera. So, I recommend you to invest in Tripod to be a successful photographer.

How to shoot in a RAW?

Raw stands for file formats like, jpeg but it doesn’t mean only jpeg file format. You have to take snapshots in RAW file format because it will give you control on white balance, underexposure, contrast and color at the spot.

What is Exposure triangle?

Exposure triangle refers to three elements of exposure like; ISO, aperture and shutter speed.

What is the function of ISO?

Increasing in ISO will decrease the quality of image. In low light, at night time or on an indoor, you need to keep ISO from 400 to 800 but always use 100 to 200 ISO when you will shoot in day time or on an outdoor.

How Aperture works?

When you have to shoot an isolated subject, you need to use a wide aperture but when you need to use a whole scene like group shots, you should use narrow aperture because aperture understand the light and a focal length between camera sensor and object.

What do you mean by shutter speed?

It controls how long the shutter remains open during taking a picture or creating a video footage. A fast shutter speed is more preferable for freezing an action as well as longer shutter speed blurs a motion.

How to use a wide aperture?

While shooting a photo of animal or persons you need to use wider aperture to gain a full focus of the scene.

How to use a narrow aperture?

When you want an entire scene like rocks with foreground in one photo and also in full focus at all, you will need to use a narrow aperture.

How to adjust Aperture Priority Mode?

Aperture Priority Mode (A or AV) and Shutter Priority Mode (S or TV) are two very useful options that are available on most cameras and will give you more control. Once you adjust the aperture priority, your camera will automatically adjust the scene and will blur the background with correct shutter speed best for the photo or footage.

How to understand what is an ISO 

As many photographers hesitate using higher ISO in photos as it creates noise or grains in photos. As you can think making dark areas into lighter creates much noise or grains but making lighter areas into darker will not. So, camera technology is on its rise these days. It is possible to use ISO at 1600, 3200, 6400 or higher. You can minimize the noise during shooting at higher ISOs with the help of wider aperture everywhere. Also make a habit to check and reset the ISO setting before you shoot a moment.

Understanding a Flash:

If you use low lights or even in dark sides, unchecking a built-in flash will lead you red eyes and harsh shadows as well. Noisy and grainy photos will be produced, if you will not adjust flash issues during capture the snapshots. You can also find flash settings and may reduce the brightness there before shooting a photo or footage.

What is function of white balance?

White balance helps you to adjust colors to their best. If you don’t adjust white balance, the colors of the content will take on a slightly blue, green or orange hue.

How to read the histogram?

It is more difficult to assess exposure as photos may look brighter or darker as they really are. The super way to check it correctly is to use the camera’s histogram. It contains the title graph next to the photo. The left side shows blacks or shadows as well as the right side shows white or highlights.

To play with Perspective:

Capturing the scene from above or below can change the whole feel of a photograph. Every angle will not work effectively for every photographer. This all depends only on your own experiments. To may try to get down for capturing animals or children photos but while shooting the portraits recommend you to stand on high places to capture the whole scene.

Using Thirds:

Using the thirds is the best way to recognize the levels and balances of you object’s preview with using grid lines. You can easily insert your object looked centered.

Fix the background must:

Generally, everyone knows the main subject of the image should be in focus. Your first priority should to keep an eye on a simple and clutter background so that the viewer of an image doesn’t pay attention what is on a background but only what is to be shown at front as focus.

Do you need to invest in a tripod?

Obviously yes, to removing shake, noise, artifacts, grains, gain a blurry look, provide best shutter speed, and attain a professional look in your captured moment you need to invest in a tripod. There are few thing to consider while you purchase a tripod. You may check the weight, height and stability. The tripod shouldn’t be too heavy to carry it but it should to be much stable to hold your camera steadily.

Do you need to invest in photo editing software?

Obviously yes, you must have premium pro, adobe photo shop or light room. But if you need some cheap but good software then you can purchase photo shop, paint shop pro to crop, adjust white balance, remove noise, adjust exposure and many other necessary tasks as well.

You should learn from your mistakes:

You will hit by some bad results first like, making blurry images, having overexposure in photos or noisy images but you can pick all of them as a learning tool to you. First you have to see that what goes wrong with your hard work, after that you will be ready to serve you as a best professional photographer as well as a best experienced editor. Because, you have also learnt, ‘’Old is Gold’’.

Much thanks to have these golden tips for photography !

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