Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Steps to becoming a great photographer
I wanted to make this like one of "those" "10 steps" "100 ways" "101 ways"..etc., but then giving it a thought I guess there are so many steps into being a photographer....a GREAT one I mean.
As a FIRST step you need to carry a camera with you all the time. You never know when or how that moment will come up. I have had times when i have felt "Oh Gosh wish I had my camera with me!!!" A moment lost can never be captured again.....Now I always carry my point and shoot with me and also use my phone ..these days camera phone are no less. I do a lot of clicks with my 3.2 megapixel camera phone, which actually comes in handy.
Secondly CLICK!CLICK!CLICK! that's the mantra to great photography. Out of at least 100 of pictures I click, I only like a few. Not all pictures you click will be a master piece. You need to experiment with your shots - Do things you think you would not do. Take a picture a day!Be it the trash can...the spoon on your plate... the flower on your dresser..anything...just take a picture.
And please understand that constant everyday shooting will improve your photography. They say practice makes a man perfect!!!!
Look at other peoples work...notice their style...just don't admire their work be a critic....Visualize what way you would have done it... copy the picture in your mind and think of ways you think it would be a better shot.
Get down to where "they are". When you are photographing people or pets try to get an eye contact. The eyes speak a lot. It also makes people feel that we are at the same level as them.
As a FIRST step you need to carry a camera with you all the time. You never know when or how that moment will come up. I have had times when i have felt "Oh Gosh wish I had my camera with me!!!" A moment lost can never be captured again.....Now I always carry my point and shoot with me and also use my phone ..these days camera phone are no less. I do a lot of clicks with my 3.2 megapixel camera phone, which actually comes in handy.
Secondly CLICK!CLICK!CLICK! that's the mantra to great photography. Out of at least 100 of pictures I click, I only like a few. Not all pictures you click will be a master piece. You need to experiment with your shots - Do things you think you would not do. Take a picture a day!Be it the trash can...the spoon on your plate... the flower on your dresser..anything...just take a picture.
And please understand that constant everyday shooting will improve your photography. They say practice makes a man perfect!!!!
Look at other peoples work...notice their style...just don't admire their work be a critic....Visualize what way you would have done it... copy the picture in your mind and think of ways you think it would be a better shot.
Get down to where "they are". When you are photographing people or pets try to get an eye contact. The eyes speak a lot. It also makes people feel that we are at the same level as them.
through the eyes of a lens - Looking at the world with a different view!
What is Photography??
Wikipedia says -
Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects activate a sensitive chemical or electronic sensor during a timed exposure, usually through a photographic lens in a device known as a camera that also stores the resulting information chemically or electronically. Photography has many uses for business, science, art and pleasure.
The word “photograph” was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (phos) “light” and γραφή (graphê) “representation by means of lines” or “drawing”, together meaning “drawing with light”.Traditionally, the products of photography have been called negatives and photographs, commonly shortened to photos.
World through the eyes of a lens is for everyone who is interested in photography and art. I always wanted to help beginners (should I say that I am a beginner or a mid level??? Debatable i guess) to get started in photography and also provide some valuable information.
If you have read till this I am sure that you are someone who is interested in photography or wish to pursue it as a hobby. I started using a camera way back in the 80’s. I had a hotshot 110 camera that would fit my pocket. Then i upgraded to a 35mm Yashica, another point and shoot. Over the years till the 90’s i had to my account quite other brands of 35mm point and shoot cameras. I graduated to a digital camera in the early 90’s with a cam from Dlink (cant even find a pic on the web of that camera!!!) which also worked as a webcam, and I was the hero around because digital cameras were then a luxury!!!
Then in the beginning of the new century I brought a Sony DSCW100, 8.1 MEGAPIXELS!!!! (when the whole world was moving around with 3.0-5.0 Mega pixels)..but my plan to buy a DSLR kept postponing and the market kept coming with one after the other….and me deciding to push my plans year after year. Then finally the sun rose in June 2008 when I decided to but a DSLR before I hit the roads to the Rocky Mountains! And lo there I was at Camera Xchange looking at the Nikons and Canons. almost setteled for a RebelXS but then the store boy presented a Pentax and wanted me to have a look at it. One look and I knew it was heavier, definitely costlier! He started with all the pluses of the camera " It has an all weather body....blah..blah..". And the price?? - $1400. What???!!!!! Well my good friend Robert, who is also an expert photographer, said it was agood deal and there I was swiping my card and making the purchase - A Pentax K10D!!!!
Wikipedia says -
Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects activate a sensitive chemical or electronic sensor during a timed exposure, usually through a photographic lens in a device known as a camera that also stores the resulting information chemically or electronically. Photography has many uses for business, science, art and pleasure.
The word “photograph” was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek φῶς (phos) “light” and γραφή (graphê) “representation by means of lines” or “drawing”, together meaning “drawing with light”.Traditionally, the products of photography have been called negatives and photographs, commonly shortened to photos.
World through the eyes of a lens is for everyone who is interested in photography and art. I always wanted to help beginners (should I say that I am a beginner or a mid level??? Debatable i guess) to get started in photography and also provide some valuable information.
If you have read till this I am sure that you are someone who is interested in photography or wish to pursue it as a hobby. I started using a camera way back in the 80’s. I had a hotshot 110 camera that would fit my pocket. Then i upgraded to a 35mm Yashica, another point and shoot. Over the years till the 90’s i had to my account quite other brands of 35mm point and shoot cameras. I graduated to a digital camera in the early 90’s with a cam from Dlink (cant even find a pic on the web of that camera!!!) which also worked as a webcam, and I was the hero around because digital cameras were then a luxury!!!
Then in the beginning of the new century I brought a Sony DSCW100, 8.1 MEGAPIXELS!!!! (when the whole world was moving around with 3.0-5.0 Mega pixels)..but my plan to buy a DSLR kept postponing and the market kept coming with one after the other….and me deciding to push my plans year after year. Then finally the sun rose in June 2008 when I decided to but a DSLR before I hit the roads to the Rocky Mountains! And lo there I was at Camera Xchange looking at the Nikons and Canons. almost setteled for a RebelXS but then the store boy presented a Pentax and wanted me to have a look at it. One look and I knew it was heavier, definitely costlier! He started with all the pluses of the camera " It has an all weather body....blah..blah..". And the price?? - $1400. What???!!!!! Well my good friend Robert, who is also an expert photographer, said it was agood deal and there I was swiping my card and making the purchase - A Pentax K10D!!!!
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