You know what it means for a team to go into what is called a rebuiling year.This is done to correct bad habits and train new people when owners or coaches decide it just needs to be done.Any leadership of every team will say in this situation that they are going back to the basics.”
Sometimes it’s good for us as photographers to go back to basics of digital photography . And, of course, if you are just getting started in the world of photography and want to learn “the ropes”, the basics are a natural start. But you want the basics of what the professionals know about the craft of photography.
Anyone can take pictures. I attended a wedding reception where the wedding party left a disposable digital camera on each table at the reception for guests to snap photos. Before the evening was over, it was the children who were running around taking pictures of everything from the dirty dishes to their own underwear. These were not photographers and while those pictures will no doubt get a few chuckles, these are not the kind of professional pictures people want for their long-term memories.
The cornerstone of photography basics is the camera obviously. When you see a camera geek walking around with enough equipment on his neck to launch a space shuttle, you get the impression that cameras are phenomenally complex, more than mere mortals can grasp.If you watch you’ll notice that professionals use relatively easy to operate and portable cameras.The reason is that aperture and shutter speed are the basics of operating a camera.
Now don’t get nervous about fancy terms. Aperture is just a term for how wide your camera lens is open to let in light.The shutter speed is the amount of time you allow light to enter the lens and in turn affect the picture. For getting a shot of a fast moving event, you want a wide aperture to let in a lot of light but a short shutter speed so you capture the event quickly and close the window so the picture is caught before more light hurts the quality.
Basically photography is all about light.You need to learn about flash photography and lenses in order to learn how to control the lighting in a shot. So add to your core skills of photography a willingness to never stop learning.As you get better and more sophisticated in your ability to work with equipment you will want to learn more and you will learn more.
You can get a greater control over these basic controls of the camera such as aperture and shutter speed by learning how to switch from automatic settings to manual settings.Every camera has automatic settings but they were only created for the general public because they are not really interested in learning the basics.You will learn about some basic settings such as portrait, landscape and sports settings.You learn best what settings work in different situations by switching to manual.
Practice is the most important basic of digital photography in becoming a great photographer.Learn your equipment by taking time to play with it. Take it to situations and take photos with different aperture and shutter speed settings, in outdoor and indoor settings and different orientations to light.When some shots don’t quite come out like you want them to, don’t get upset.Everything has a learning curve and that’s part of it.
You learn best by doing and you build your confidence along to way to becoming a great photographer.Never become cocky, you can always learn more.This one of the fun things with photography?
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