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If you have purchased your first professional camera or DSLR and wish to sharpen your photography skills, then you have landed at the perfect place. Every photographer must build a strong foundation and learn ways to continuously enhance their skills to gain expertise level. Like any other art form, photography requires regular practice. Let’s look at some of the basic techniques to improve these skills one by one.
You may have the best lighting in your camera but would not be able to get clear pictures. This is because of the blurriness in the photos due to the continuous shaking of the camera. Therefore, any photographer needs to hold their camera properly. It may sound simple but result in poor photographs in reality. To resolve shaking concerns, you can use a trip stand to keep your camera still and focus on the quality of the pictures. Even if you are holding your camera in your hands and would like to avoid the expenses of buying a new tripod stand, make sure you hold your camera with both hands to have a firm grip. The best practice is to hold the right side of the camera with a right hand and to support the weight of the camera by holding the beneath of the lens using the left hand. Additionally, you may want to hold the camera near your body to keep it still. Leaning against a wall can help provide extra stability to get a perfect picture without any shaky elements added to it. Once you get the right picture of your desired frame, you can choose to save them in file formats like RAW, jpeg, etc. It helps to have more control over the quality of the picture and enables you to correct quality issues in post-processing. You can edit these file formats to alter the exposure levels or contrast, depending on your requirement. The only concern with such file formats is that they take up more space than the traditional file formats. So, if you have sufficient time and space to edit your pictures then RAW and jpeg are the best file formats to go for. If you are a fan of portrait pictures of people or wildlife creatures, then your main object must be in focus. Meanwhile, the background objects are intentionally blurred out. Here, you have to be careful about the wider aperture to keep your main object sharp. To have a more dramatic effect, you need to keep the aperture wide. You may want to switch to Aperture priority mode in your camera to better understand the working of a wider aperture. On the other hand, we have landscape photography that requires a narrow aperture. In this scenario, you want to keep every object in the foreground as well as in the background sharp and focussed. This necessitates the aperture to be narrow for this kind of photography. Once again, you can start practicing by using the Aperture priority mode of your DSLR to understand the basics of narrow aperture before you begin using the manual mode. Author: David Sechovicz — I am a photography enthusiast. A thinker, dreamer, lover of all things whimsical and magical. I love photography and am passionate about art. To me art doesn’t have to be pretty. It has to be meaningful. Now let’s remember the world “revolves” because of people’s creativity.
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