Digital Empowerment Photography Lessons With Focus And Exposure

By Joseph Fisher


Do you want to snap some unbelievable photographs? Would you like some digital photography lessons? Let's talk about composition! Thinking about composition, or how the picture is constructed, when taking the picture is a technique that will improve your empowerment photography skills. How can you build a better photograph?

First Digital Photography Lessons: Utilize your autofocus and auto exposure mode, with the fairly complicated process of aperture and shutter speed, coupled with the time-consuming manual focusing, autofocus and auto exposure can indeed become a lifesaver. Professional photographers use manual mode, meaning, that they manually set their aperture and shutter speed to get an optimal image quality according to their project. Of course, manual mode does make better photos, with better knowledge of the control. So people who tweak the manual mode in a random way almost get bad images, even pure black, and white at times. The auto exposure sets the shutter speed and aperture automatically to help you.

Also important is the orientation of the frame. Experiment with horizontal and vertical versions of the same image. This is a GREAT exercise to push your composition skills. Soon you will develop a feel for the balance between subject matter and background, as well as train yourself to get out of the "standard" rut. (For some that is always shooting horizontal images, for others it is always shooting vertical images.) You will be surprised at how quickly your images improve with this exercise.

Leading Lines - You can improve your photos by pulling the viewer's eye into the photo. A simple way is employing leading lines. It could be something as simple as a railroad track or road. You could use the edge of a building, a fence or anything else that grabs the viewer's eye and pulls them in.

By forcing yourself to shoot "full frame, " you stretch your skills as a photographer and artist. This forces you to consider all of the elements within the viewfinder. Once you have a strong base of this skill, it is fine to break away from it; establishing the skill first is the key to improving the quality of your digital photographs.

Use macro lenses if you love to shoot insects, small subjects, and all minute objects. Then lastly, if you want to have the sharpest result as possible, use prime lenses. A prime lens does not have a zoom feature, so it means that they only have one focal point. But the good thing with prime lenses is that their glass is so wide opened that they provide for a greater depth of field as compared to other lenses.

Creative input is the real magic to creating amazing photographs - ones that have that elusive "WOW" factor. In creative we are concerned with things like lighting, posing, composition, and so on. So, there you have it... Photography in a nutshell. It consists of aperture size and shutter speed which are mechanical operations for the most part. That's why cameras are able to have settings like aperture priority, shutter priority and full automatic.

Fifth Digital Photographing Lessons: Equipment do matter- To maximize your shooting experience, purchase some equipment to assist you. Tripods are used for long exposure shoots, speed lights for more options on your lighting, an umbrella for light manipulation, water proof case for underwater shots, battery grip for doubled battery life, and a lot more accessories to make your photographer life easier.




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