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A Post By: YTGUIDE
If you read my posts daily then you have been already done:
Let’s come now and let me tell you some unique ideas to Learn
Photography better than all and I will you how to start first and what types of
equipment you will need to have.
Starting Rules of Capturing Photos and Footage:
Have you
ever wish to become a professional photographer? These tips will help you
regarding this at all. The first thing is to read this Article entirely because
it will help you get know many useful tips to capture photos like a
professional skillful photographer. Let me tell you now:
- Look your subject in the eye
- Use a plain background
- Use flash outdoors
- Move in close
- Move it from the middle
- Lock the focus
- Know your flash’s range
- Watch the light
- Take some vertical pictures
- Be a picture director
Some more essential
tips, I learnt from my mistakes in capturing moments through my first DSLR
Camera. Such as Focusing problems, disabling to understand shutter speed
issues, holding a camera, to stop breathing during capture photos and many
other like these, I am going to mention all of them below:
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Hold the camera or
phone properly/steadily
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Shoot in RAW
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Fix exposure triangle
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Fix wide aperture for
portraits and narrow aperture for landscapes
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Learn aperture and
shutter priority mode
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Rise the ISO
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Check ISO before
shooting
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Remain careful for
flash
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Adjust white balance
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Read histogram
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Play with perspective
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Eyes should be in
focus
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Use neat and clean
background
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Must have a tripod
with
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Have a best photo
editing software
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Always seek from your
previous mistakes
I am 100% sure these tips to help you being a professional photographer and footage maker.
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.
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| Tripod for capturing steadily images |
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.
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| low light exposure |
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| high light exposure |
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.
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| not in Focus |
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| in Focus |
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.
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| Full Landscape Preview |
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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