i travel to costa rica at least once or twice a year. and i am beginning to walk down the path of photography. is there a strategy or way i could take good photography? First off, there is nothing called "perfect photography." Photography is an art, just like music or painting. As such it is subject to the interpretations of those looking at the photographs. One person might love the image while the next person may hate it. It is subjective.
But you can certainly do things to make your photographs better. Start with the camera, or your camera equipment. Get the best you can afford, understand how to work it, and keep the lens clean and scratch free.
When shooting hold the camera as still as possible. Use a tripod if you have one or a tabletop, a rock, car hood etc.
When you see something that you would like to photograph, start asking yourself questions about it. What do I like about this? What got my attention? Can I find a better angle to shoot it from? Can I come back when the light is different? Do I need all of "this" in the picture or can I move closer and make it better? Am I too close? Would "this" look better in the top half of the picture or the bottom half? Can I move it near a corner? Is there anything that is distracting I can keep out of the picture?
This is how you develop the photographer's "eye" and begin to see the world as photographs. It is something you learn with practice and experience. A lot of it is artistic talent, too.
With today's digital cameras it is possible to shoot a limitless amount of photographs--simply keep the best and delete the rest. And you can get all sorts of practice this way. You learn by doing, trying, and learning from the mistakes--what went wrong with this picture? How could I have made it better?
Good luck and happy shooting. Yes.
The best way is by taking classes. Photography classes will teach you about light and composition and f-stops and shutter speeds and ISO.
The second best way is to thoroughly READ & STUDY the Owner's Manual for your camera until you know every setting and feature and when, why and how to use them. You can supplement the Manual with books like "Hands-On Digital Photography" by George Schaub and "How Digital Photography Works, Second Edition" by Ron White. A company named Magic Lantern offers instructional DVDs for most DSLR cameras. You can find their products at Amazon.
Good luck! you know what you have to feel it you have to say thats amazing and if its truly worth it get to a spot where you can get a good shot, take your time. somtimes its also good to have a little abstract like bad lighting do whatever it takes you really cant just take a good picture you have to know it to me it comes naturally i cant explain it. Hey Sup
There is no strtegy in photography. It is an art. You need good imagination, creativity and sense of composition and color.
That's it.
The camera's lens is the extension of your eye. When you take a picture, always try to convey what you are trying to say but without words, just a picture.
The person viewing the pics has to alost feel how you felt whenyou took the photo.
Keep that in mind. A pic is worth a 1000 words. With that in mind, you will understand the principles of photography. There is no real strategy, to be honest. Everyone's technique is different. The easiest thing to learn, but simultaneously the hardest thing to achieve is to see what you wish to photograph before you raise the camera to your eye, then compose it in such a way that the viewer can see what you wanted them to see within it. "Good" photography is too broad to categorize. For most, a good photograph is one that is focused and exposed properly. No one wants to look at an image that is blurred, or is either over-exposed or under-exposed. Heck, all you have to do to fix that problem is shoot in one of the auto-exposure modes, know your camera's metering system to avoid blowing out highlights by using exposure compensation, and be sure the shutter speed is the reciprocal of the focal length you're using to avoid blur associated with camera shake. That technical knowledge can be found within the owner's manual of your camera. But, a technically perfect image is not always a aesthetically pleasing one.
The technical stuff is easy. But in order to make a composition stand out, it must be focused and exposed properly, so the most important thing to know first is how to use your camera to its potential. You'd be amazed, the possibilities you find, when you know what all the knobs and doohickies are for on your camera.
The harder part is figuring out "what" to photograph. It can be made easier if you know what you like to see in a photograph yourself. Take a look at what you would consider "good" photography, then try to understand what you find good about it. Why do you like it? What makes it appealing to you?
Take a look at this website:
http://www.onexposure.net/?photos=latest...
There are is a lot of "good" photography there, some of the best, IMO. It's a community of sorts, much like flickr only not lame like flickr. In order for members to upload an image to the site, it has to be "screened" by special members, or the community. Some think it's a bit bourgeois and hoity toity, but I rather enjoy the images found there.
Try to find several images you like and figure out what about them you like. It's not about emulation, but understanding. The more you look at them, the more you learn what about them makes them pleasing to look at. Look at the angles, shadows, textures, and read the commentary. They are often always connected, as if parts of a story.
Of course, you could learn all of this in school, but why? It's not really rocket science. For some, school is necessary. But if you wish to take better photographs, practice makes perfect. |
