cameras\photography ... i am a novice... or newbie if you prefer
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It is best just to get a how-to book from the library, or buy one from your local photo shop or book store.
Photograpphy is very easy, it just take practice. Study the images that you like from the magazines or books, then try to reproduce similare instant with your camera. And, don't worry if it take an entire roll or more to do it, because the more pictures you take the better you get...Make sure to study/critique & record the unacceptable photographs as well as the one you like.
A famous photographer once wrote, ? the size of your garbage bin indicate how good you are as a photographer?.
Most good photographer only expected to have 1~3 good pictures on a roll of film, and one deserving print to be frame out of 1~10 rolls. If you keep this moto in mind then its doesn't feel too discouraging to practice your picture taking & printing.
Ps. A painter once said that he study the subject for 1 hour and draw for 5 minutes. It meant that you will improve your photograph quality if you apply the same theory to your picture taking process.
Photograpphy is very easy, it just take practice. Study the images that you like from the magazines or books, then try to reproduce similare instant with your camera. And, don't worry if it take an entire roll or more to do it, because the more pictures you take the better you get...Make sure to study/critique & record the unacceptable photographs as well as the one you like.
A famous photographer once wrote, ? the size of your garbage bin indicate how good you are as a photographer?.
Most good photographer only expected to have 1~3 good pictures on a roll of film, and one deserving print to be frame out of 1~10 rolls. If you keep this moto in mind then its doesn't feel too discouraging to practice your picture taking & printing.
Ps. A painter once said that he study the subject for 1 hour and draw for 5 minutes. It meant that you will improve your photograph quality if you apply the same theory to your picture taking process.
EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
starting with what does what, from the shutter to aperture, to accessories, including all those filters, and lenses...
starting with what does what, from the shutter to aperture, to accessories, including all those filters, and lenses...
If you really want to learn everything, then get a book on dark-room technique & a book on how to make and take picture with a pin-hole camera.
You will understand lighting, deph of field (aperature), contrast, & dark room developing technique once you master the the pin-hole camera.
Other wise, get your self a book on How-To Take Picture with a 35mm camera, a cheap 35mm camera, a 50mm normal lens, lots of films 25~400 ISO, and practice.
Ps. You don't really need any filter, because the compostion of your subject is the focus of the image.
A great excercise is to find a suface such as a tree trunk or a patch of dirt and take a roll of picture (24~36 exposure), and try to get every sigle frame with a different composition. This technique will teach you to study your subject and to see posible compostions of any banal subject and change it into somthing beautiful.
OK..a quick crash course coming up. Since I know what camera you have this will be easier.
Aperture: Is the name for the opening in your lens to let light in. The darker the scene, the more light you need and the smaller the number is. Ex. 2.8 is often the biggest opening you have and 16 the smallest.
Speed: is the speed the aperture remains open. A higher speed is used when lighting is good and also has the effect of freezing the action better than a slower speed.Typically one would use 250 or higher to "freeze" action and this can go up to 1/1000ths to "freeze" lets say the batting of a hummingbirds wings. Follow me so far?
Depth of field: is a term used to describe how much of the picture is in focus. the larger the aperture, the less depth of field you have. If you take a picture of something with your aperture at 2.8, usually everything behind the main subject is not in focus and if taken at 16, your focus might extend well into the background.
You could take a picture with the speed set at 500 if it,s vital to freeze the action and set the aperture accordingly. This is called shutter priority. If it's more important that you have a longer depth of fied, you would set your aperture first, then set your speed accordingly to match the aperture. This is called aperure priority. Most higher -end cameras on "auto" give you a choice over shutter or aperture priority which I know your camera does. It always depends on what it is your after in your pic. If you were shooting a moto x bike coming off a jump, it would require you to "freeze" the action in the air and background focus is not required. You would use a higher shutter speed. If you wanted to take a pic of the Grand Canyon,since it's not going anywhere (for a while anyway) you want as much in focus as possible so you would use a smaller aperture opening and adjust the speed accordingly.
In colour photography,you usually just use a polorizer filter that works the same as a pair of polorized sunglasses. It basically cuts down glare and darkens up a blue sky to a richer, more saturated colour.It cuts the haze. You could also use a Star filter to give you little stars where there are points of light being refected like off a chrom car bumper. In B+W photography, filters are used more to highten contrast. I hope this is enough to get you started. If your missing some other info, let me know specifically what and I'll try to help if I can. I was very heavily into photography yeas ago and it's a wonderful hobby.
Aperture: Is the name for the opening in your lens to let light in. The darker the scene, the more light you need and the smaller the number is. Ex. 2.8 is often the biggest opening you have and 16 the smallest.
Speed: is the speed the aperture remains open. A higher speed is used when lighting is good and also has the effect of freezing the action better than a slower speed.Typically one would use 250 or higher to "freeze" action and this can go up to 1/1000ths to "freeze" lets say the batting of a hummingbirds wings. Follow me so far?
Depth of field: is a term used to describe how much of the picture is in focus. the larger the aperture, the less depth of field you have. If you take a picture of something with your aperture at 2.8, usually everything behind the main subject is not in focus and if taken at 16, your focus might extend well into the background.
You could take a picture with the speed set at 500 if it,s vital to freeze the action and set the aperture accordingly. This is called shutter priority. If it's more important that you have a longer depth of fied, you would set your aperture first, then set your speed accordingly to match the aperture. This is called aperure priority. Most higher -end cameras on "auto" give you a choice over shutter or aperture priority which I know your camera does. It always depends on what it is your after in your pic. If you were shooting a moto x bike coming off a jump, it would require you to "freeze" the action in the air and background focus is not required. You would use a higher shutter speed. If you wanted to take a pic of the Grand Canyon,since it's not going anywhere (for a while anyway) you want as much in focus as possible so you would use a smaller aperture opening and adjust the speed accordingly.
In colour photography,you usually just use a polorizer filter that works the same as a pair of polorized sunglasses. It basically cuts down glare and darkens up a blue sky to a richer, more saturated colour.It cuts the haze. You could also use a Star filter to give you little stars where there are points of light being refected like off a chrom car bumper. In B+W photography, filters are used more to highten contrast. I hope this is enough to get you started. If your missing some other info, let me know specifically what and I'll try to help if I can. I was very heavily into photography yeas ago and it's a wonderful hobby.
A normal/50mm lens for 35mm camera usually have an aperture of 1.4, 1.7 or f:1.8 (the better onces have a max value of f:1.0 or f:1.2). Most 35mm zoom lenses start with f:4, f:4.5, or f:5.6. While most camera lenses aperture fall between f:1.0 and f:128.(FAST is the photography term to describe aperture speed).
...Depth of field is the area/distant that is in focus between your lens & infinity. The aperture dictate the area that is in focus, because the area of focus is the inverse value between the subject distant to the camera, lens focal length & its opening (the area of focus is depend on the hole or aperture, lens focal length, and the length or distant of the subject field).
...Depth of field is the area/distant that is in focus between your lens & infinity. The aperture dictate the area that is in focus, because the area of focus is the inverse value between the subject distant to the camera, lens focal length & its opening (the area of focus is depend on the hole or aperture, lens focal length, and the length or distant of the subject field).
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