You know what it means for a team to go into what is called a rebuiling year.This is done to correct bad habits and train new people when owners or coaches decide it just needs to be done.All teams leadership say when they go to such a circumstance is they are going back to the basics.”
Sometimes it’s good for us as photographers to go back to basics of digital photography . And, of course, if you are just getting started in the world of photography and want to learn “the ropes”, the basics are a natural start.You need to know the basics that all the professionals know about the craft of photograghy.
Anyone can take pictures. I attended a wedding reception where the wedding party left a disposable digital camera on each table at the reception for guests to snap photos. Before the evening was over, it was the children who were running around taking pictures of everything from the dirty dishes to their own underwear. These were not photographers and while those pictures will no doubt get a few chuckles, these are not the kind of professional pictures people want for their long-term memories.
The cornerstone of digital photography basics is the camera obviously. When you see a camera geek walking around with enough equipment on his neck to launch a space shuttle, you get the impression that cameras are phenomenally complex, more than mere mortals can grasp.If you notice professionals you’ll see them working with light weight, portable and easy to operate cameras.The basics of running a camera comes down to two things, aperture and shutter speed.
Don’t be bothered by fancy terms.The camera lens lets lgiht into the camera and how wide open it is set to is called the aperture. And shutter speed is just how long you let the light come in to affect the picture. For getting a shot of a fast moving event, you want a wide aperture to let in a lot of light but a short shutter speed so you capture the event quickly and close the window so the picture is caught before more light hurts the quality.
Photography is simply all about light. You can and will get learn a lot about lenses and flash photography and other ways to turn the control over the lighting of a shot to you. So add to your core skills of photography a willingness to never stop learning.You will learn more as your ability to work with the equipment becomes better and more sophisticated and you will want to learn more.
You can get a greater control over these basic controls of the camera such as aperture and shutter speed by learning how to switch from automatic settings to manual settings. The automatic settings of any camera are just there for the general public who are not interested in learning the basics.You will learn about some basic settings such as portrait, landscape and sports settings.You learn best what settings work in different situations by switching to manual.
Practice is the most important digital photography basics in becoming a great photographer. Take some time with your equipment and play with it. Take it to situations and take photos with different aperture and shutter speed settings, in outdoor and indoor settings and different orientations to light. Don’t get upset when some shots don’t work. That’s part of the learning curve.
You learn best by doing and you build your confidence along to way to becoming a great photographer.Never become cocky, you can always learn more.This one of the fun things with photography?
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