Photography Basics - How to Take Good Photos
A good photograph is not just a physical photo or a digital cop, but it's someone's story, memory or even life. When we take photos we tend to preserve the most important events and people in our lives. The ceremonies of birth and birthdays, marriages and anniversaries, holidays, travels, and new houses are all recorded because they matter to us. Photographs are our personal story, a timeline of our lives filled with faces and places that we love and cherish. They are our story, which we can share with others or preserve for life.
So, photographs are part of our life, our history, they allow us to express our love, feelings,share our thoughts, they also are used as a tool to express complex situations around us or to capture those emotions, photographs have the power to move us. And when you are taking those photographs for yourself or for others there are a few key points you should remember and follow.
First: *You don't take a photograph, you make it.* - Ansel Adams, yes, it's so true. Taking a good photo is as much an art as painting, you need to really study the subject, environment around you, alter your perspectives, and try and focus on the subject but yet look at the big picture.
Second: *A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.* - Diane Arbus. Any subject you capture, living or non-living, has a lot of emotions attached to it. Much of these emotions are not seen, they are hidden within those subjects. A good photograph tells a story, story of something that we don't know or didn't see when we actually saw it. That is what you should aim to capture.
Third: Break the rules, there is no single way to take a good photograph. Whether it's a rule of composition, placement of subject or any such rules which you learnt in your photography class, break them! They are off-course a good learning and produce aesthetically good photos but you don't need to restrict yourself to that. They can be part of your post processing.
Forth: Experiment! Yes, Experiment with your subject, experiment with light, objects around you, focus, shutter speed, variations in zooming (obscure some parts of the subject), get subjects to move out of comfort zone, candid moments, etc. There is a lot more you can try with your subject then just making them stand in front of you and taking photos.
Fifth: Understand various technical aspects such as exposure (Aperture, ISO, shutter speed), metering, field of depth, white balance, etc. They take your photos to the next level, and you get better at taking photos as you learn and click more and more photos.
-After you have taken your photo!-
Sixth: Post-Processing, it's an un-avoidable step in today's digital world. Post-Processing is basically altering and enhancing your photos to make it look better. Some may say it amounts to cheating, but in some scenarios it's an important step. You need to draw a line on where to stop post-processing, and that mostly comes from the ethics and values you carry. In today's world post-processing is considered as a digital darkroom and it's definitely fun to do post-processing using tools such as Photoshop, Light room, etc.
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