Introduction to Photography to Help You Take Better Pictures

If you want to try taking up photography, there are some basic things that you need to know to start taking good pictures. You need not get the most expensive camera that your money can buy in order to take good photographs. Without knowing the basics of photography and you just keep on clicking away, your pictures will not turn out to be good. But with proper lessons in photography, you can use any simple camera and take beautiful pictures without spending a lot of money.

As an introduction to photography, you should first know that there are two pursuits to photography; the technical way and the creative way. The technical way is by setting up your camera and other equipment in a studio where you can control the environment to take images. This way, you can alter the lighting, the subject, background and all other things that will appear on your camera. On the other hand, the creative way is when you just go out and take pictures with your camera. This is harder to do as you will have no control over the environment and it should be you who adjusts so that your photographs may appear beautifully.

There are many things that you should consider when taking a picture. First is choosing the right lens, or specifically, the right focal length that you want to take your picture. The focal length defines the magnification of the lens and this closely relates to the field of vision as well. The field of vision is the angle which defines how narrow or how wide the portion of the picture that you are taking. By taking a picture at a shorter focal length, the field of vision becomes wider and as the focal length increases, the field of view becomes smaller and the magnification increases. This is important when it comes to the perspective of a picture. Taking a picture with a large focal length can cause the image to look flat as the foreground and background seems to blend together. On the other hand, a shorter focal length can help exaggerate perspectives, with the most extreme case being fish-eye lenses.

Focusing on an object is also important as you wouldn’t want to have a blurry image. When dealing with focusing an image, you must consider the depth of field and the f-stop. The f-stop is an aperture which controls the amount of light that gets onto your digital surface. The smaller this is, the less is its ability to focus in different fields of depth. This is useful if you want your subject to appear clearly and the background to appear blurry. On the other hand, if you plan on taking pictures of landscapes, having a high f-stop will help in focusing the entire image even though it has varying fields of depth. These are just some of the basic things that are covered in introduction to photography. There are many other things that you need to learn such as lighting, color and motion to be able to start taking very good pictures in both the technical and creative pursuits.