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Suggestions for practicing photography with my SLR camera? |
So I have a really nice SLR camera and I am not very good at using it. During the summer I will be going on some vacations and I would like to be able to take good pictures with it. What are some ways to practice taking pictures? What are some things i could photograph to practice? I spend alot of time at home when I am not at school so there arent many places I could take it. I have some different lenses and filters and whatnot that I experiment with but none of the pictures I have been taking are worth keeping. Any suggestions at all would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Mangal is basically correct. You should put your camera on manual and adjust the shutter speed and aperture by hand with a subject in front of you. That subject can be an orange, a brick, and a girl friend or someone else. Put the camera on a tripod to stabilize it, use an outboard light meter for setting shutter speeds and apertures. You can get them from camera stores and you do not need an expensive one. One that I use is 40 years old and still working fine. $35-50 would be the price range. Take your picture at the speed and f stop stated by the light meter and then bracket two stops tighter and two stops lower. Or, basically the same thing, leave the f stop alone and change your speed two speeds up and two speeds down. Either way would mean that you will have five pictures. If you are doing this on a film camera, only use slide film, transparencies, because they have no latitude in developing process. If you were to use, say ISO 200 film for color prints, get them done at a professional house and tell them to print them the way that they are. Do not take it to walmart or Target, their machines adjust the printing process only to give you the best picture you can get off of a negative. If you are using a digital, put all five pictures into a photo program and judge for yourself which is best. Oops, I almost forgot... When taking pictures and doing this, make a notation of the shutter speed and f stops so you can see which setting is the best. After that experiment, just start wasting batteries and film using a similar process, maybe just one stop up and one stop down from what the meter says. No professional photographer will shoot only one shot of a scene, unless that is all he can get, he will bracket - and that is what I told you to do. I don't know what credence others give this advice that was given to me, but have the sun hitting your subject, or the light hitting your subject, coming over your left shoulder. In photography as well as in sailing, you don't want to steer too close to the wind (or sun for photography). So just start taking pictures and keeping notes about what you have done until you can decide what is best for you. All the books in the world cannot make a good photographer out of you, it is totally a mental thing. to have a good picture, you need proper composition, so if you read anything, pay attention to the advice on composition. First of all read the manual that came with your camera. You might start out by practicing how to use your camera when it is NOT set on automatic...that's the difference between folks who snap pictures...and photographers.................... Take a Orange and photograph it from different angle as well as different exposures. Write down your exposures. Repeat the same with construction brick. Develop your film and see the prints for the results. You will study lot about light and its effects on texture, depth and colour. Photography is nothing but study of light and ways of capturing it to best advantage. Start from here and move on to different subjects. Is it film or is it digital? You may need to test it out before you start using it if its film (since its pay per shot). Take different angles, use manuel features and not auto modes just because you can get intereseting details from manuel. Read magazines and books, itll help you a lot in taking shots in the field. Hi, Get familiar with the camera and the controls the camera offers by taking with auto mode. Learn about the different photograph techniques and the technical details. and try applying it by choosing a subject of your choice. Once you are comfortable with the controls, go for the manual controls. You can further learn by choosing different exposures using manual control . You can learn out some tips and techniques . All the best and keep clicking :) http://www.acdsee.com/community/articles... - provides you some very nice tips to begin with. http://www.photoxels.com/digital-photogr... - good reference to start with to learn about various terms used like aperture,exposure. |
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