Guidelines for Beginners

 Photos are one of the best ways we capture memories, tell stories, and share life’s joy. Whether you meet your friends after a long time and are looking for ways to capture the best photos possible of the time or you’re planning a trip to an exotic location with plenty of photo opportunities – there’s many different reasons to pick up photography. But if you’re new to DSLRs or not quite used to your smart phone camera then your camera can feel a little intimidating. If so, we’ll help you figure out the camera and photography basics.

Camera Features You Need To Know

• Viewfinder : You can use the viewfinder to help strategize the composition of your photo.

• Focus: Most cameras come with auto focus, but you should also figure out how to change this setting to manual once you get comfortable with other photography basics.

• Color Balance: Adjust your color balance settings depending on the lighting to help make sure your photos don’t come out in undesired colors.

• Aperture: Adjust your aperture settings so you’re better able to control the light in your images.

• Shutter Speed: Too fast a shutter speed and your images come out dark, too slow and they’ll come out blurry. Try to find a balance.

• Flash: Most photographers try to stick to external light sources but you still need to understand the basics behind your camera’s flash.

• Light Balance/Exposure: Adjust this depending on how much light you want in your images before you take them.

• ISO: Your ISO, or the sensitivity of your camera to light, will affect how much photo grain appears in your images.

Some of the photography equipments -

• Camera Body (or camera phone):

• Lenses (and cover)

• Tripod

• Rechargeable Batteries

• Memory Cards

Tips-

• Don’t go crazy buying the most expensive equipment right away.

• Consider a tripod

• Keep your camera with you all the time

• Make a list of shots you’d like to get.

• Look at familiar surroundings with fresh eyes

• Experiment with your camera’s settings

• Learn the basic rules

• Take photos regularly

• Most importantly don’t forget to have fun

Photography is a creative process and a way to express your idea through images and convey emotions to the viewer. A single blog article is not enough to tell what photography is, probably not even a book.

All I can say is that when you take a picture you are performing a powerful action. You are freezing time. You are enabling someone else to enjoy that moment in all the details and you are enabling that moment to be forever.