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If you get advice from serious amateurs or professionals on how to improve your photography, they will tell you usual stuffs like start from a full manual SLR system, shoot slides, shoot with tripod, shoot with the slowest film…
Most books will tell you this as well but times have changed, and we have this huge advantage in our era now — Digital cameras.
Hi! Call me photodude. When I first started photography, I went through all the works. Bought a full manual camera system, tripods, shot with ISO 50 films among other crazy things I have been doing, including lugging a big tripod around!
Having gone through this route, I’ll share my experience on how to do photography, the practical way. With your point-and-shoot digital camera!
So stop for a moment and read on. Don’t think that serious photography is beyond you just because of your equipment. Remember, I went through that route before.
Let’s start!
And we begin with the number one source of bad photos…
The number one source of bad photography, irrespective of equipment, is BAD COMPOSITION. Built-in light meters are so smart these days, very very few photos are badly exposed. Besides, most folks use digital cameras these days and if you got it wrong (or rather if the camera got the exposure wrong), you could always program the camera to increase/decrease the exposure and reshoot.
Back in those days using film cameras, you don’t have this option. This is why it’s critical that you get your exposure SPOT ON. Unless with God’s help, you managed to go back to that location and the whole scene is replicated. Yeah, how we wish…
Fortunately, bad composition is pretty easy to eradicate.
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