Learning Photography - Start with the basics

Photography is a ocean with numerous concepts both technical and artistic in nature which will give a new perspective to your photographs. Just like eating food, don't try to swallow everything at one go else you might end up learning nothing. The basic concepts which are most important are using the combination of  shutter speed, aperture and ISO work hand in hand to create that unique photograph. Explore what each concept causes while you photograph the same object or place. The challenge tough is to master using the combination of all these three. Your camera manual is the best way to kick start learning these concepts. It will give you a brush up on each and you can always take the help of the numerous videos in this regard available online. Will touch upon these concepts more in detail in the coming posts. There is however no concept more important than taking that great picture. 

HOW TO PHOTOGRAPHY: TEACHING YOURSELF

The Skills, concepts and the numerous techniques that can help you get that distinguished pictures are overwhelming for most of the beginners. Believe it or not even many professional photographers don't know all there is in the photography world. If your taking up photography as a hobby and are struggling to learn more, then best approach is to become a student by trying to learn as much as possible from the online world. I would suggest the following sequence of lessons.

a) Know your camera 
    The camera is just a complex device which at the end of the day cannot do anything by itself. You can't expect it to click the perfect pictures unless you understand its basic operations and how comfortable you are with it. That is the reason the most important thing while purchasing a camera is to see how well it fits in your hand. People with big hands might find it tough to handle the Slim digital cameras like SONY, CANON etc that now are offered by almost all brands. Post purchase spending time to learn the manuals if just the right way to head start yourself . Once you feel you have a good idea about the camera it will not be a bad idea to hop out and start clicking random photos. Make sure you try all the modes that are available in the camera. Don't worry too much about the quality of the pictures. Instead focus more on the using the different buttons and settings and the changes it throws for the same picture clicked. Remember its impossible to enjoy photography unless you learn to operate your camera.

Next lesson to come shortly...

Learning Photography

Most of us been amazed how few photographs of the same place tend to stand out and have wondered why we did not manage to do the same? And our first reaction is "Ahhh he has a SLR camera"... We then save up and get the best SLR or the latest Digital camera but still struggle to get that perfect photograph that we imagined. 

Well i was one among you all until a few years back but over the years i believe, have slowly managed to master the art of photography to some extent. Information online for amateurs/beginners is like an ocean where we are unsure which is the best place to fish. Through this blog i hope to help you amateur photographers learn the basics in a way which as beginners we find easy to understand and master. Hope we can have few experts who will also help us along the way with their views and comments.

Henri Cartier stated "Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst", so lets together try and learn skills which will make you click the perfect photograph which most importantly makes you feel HAPPY.

Stay tuned as we kick start this journey shortly. 

Till then "HAPPY CLICKING".

Photo Credit: TZ Getz