Learning Photography For Beginners Who Want to be a Professional

Photography is an activity that is currently some people very loved by young and old, even children, perhaps for a layperson like me photography just take a picture and edit it out on photoshop and other and sorted out .. hehe .. but if we want to take another look at how to conduct photography or take photo properly .. following me give you some tips that come from several photography forums.


The rapid development of photography today is impacted by the amount of media education media that can deliver us to know the world of photography is much deeper.
Some people have an advantage by being able to take pictures with natural or self-taught. There is also a picture of the ability to obtain a formal school or the course.
In the 1980's when we want to deepen their knowledge of photography to be out of the country. Nowadays it does not have to study photography abroad, in this country has now mushroomed places to learn photography, especially in big cities in Indonesia. Besides in a chair college or formal education are many ways that we can try to learn photography. Even the digital era, we are biased to learn photography from the internet. But all to no hard work, perseverance and self-satisfied that a photographer will not be successful in this learning stage.
Where we learn photography:

Formal 1.Pendidikan
Formal education is learning photography photography school or college.
Formal education can make us become more disciplined in studying photography, and also has a mentor who can guide us so that the learning process more effective.
Line Formal charges are usually quite expensive and have a flexible time not because we have to follow the existing schedule.
National Education Formal we might as well take on a field of study in college. The schedule is set up, teachers that have been scheduled more quickly it will deliver much faster we learn about the world of photography.

Usually the courses that we will study in formal education are:
- History of photography
- Photography basis
- Photography still life
- Photography fasion
- Photo journalism
- Product Photos
- Wedding Photos
- Photography of nature and animals (wild life photography)
- Dark Room
- Industry photography
- Digital imaging

If we want to select the familiar formal photography then choose a school that already has a name known by many people or do not already have a good graduate graduates, because we have spent quite a lot and took quite a long time in the learning process so we choose the best of the good.
The success of being a photographer is not visible from where we took a school or a degree in. Final assessment of a photographer is the end result of his work. The advantages of the photographers whose formal education is usually more controlled and powerful technique to conceptualize a photo with a theory based studies.

Informal 2.Pendidikan
Informal education is an education that photography is now very in like by newcomers in the world of photography.
Informal education have some excellence the relatively low cost and affordable and has a flexible and we can choose whatever material needs that we want. But in formal training many photographers become disciplined in studying photography. This causes the length of the learning process.
Where can we get informal education ...?

3. Workshop and Seminar
The number of photography workshops we can follow, almost every week we will hear a photography workshop in big cities in Indonesia.
We'll easily find a workshop on the internet, some photographic portal facilitates event - event workshop. So diligent  searching to find a good workshop.
Take some photography workshops, not just one time. Since learning can not be instant photo. By following a few workshops and seminars we will have many sources of inspiration and new creative ideas.
The material can be obtained from the workshop are:
- Oprasinal camera
- Introduction to basic photography
- Basic techniques of photography
- Basic base composition
- Model photography basic level
- Editing and photo processing
- Studio lighting basic level

Tips on choosing workshops and seminars:
Pick a few workshops / seminars that have good content and good reputation of the speaker. Armed with that information we may have had before, we can be sure whether the speaker in the workshop / seminar was competent or not in the field. If you do not have any information about it, try to ask other people who know about or explore information from the internet.
Often a speaker that has a name is also a book author. By knowing the book, then you already have a positive reference about it.
Next is to calculate the cost we would incur. In general, speakers who have high competence and well-known, tend to put high tariffs in the workshop.
Make sure before we attend a workshop that presented the material to suit our needs. Consider the relevance of the material or content that is discussed in the workshop / seminar with the needs of the science that we need. If relevant, consider to follow.

4. Books & Articles
Books are a window to the world, choose books can develop our knowledge in photography. The virtual world is a shortcut way of fatherly could learn photography. So many e-books as well as articles article on the internet that can be read fatherly deepen learning photography. Some portal photography much facilitated several articles and forums to discuss photography.
The most effective way to learn photography is through read, buy some guidebook in studying photography.
Take the time to read it, by reading we will learn new things. Some of the many successful photographers armed with books and articles. Apply / practice is the new thing we learn from books and articles. Most of us only read about it but lazy practice. With practice will accelerate the learning process.

Tips on selecting quality books:
we often confuse in choosing quality books, but we already spend considerable money to buy a book, but the content of the book is not as we expected. Language is difficult to understand, complicated convoluted and boring.

There are some tips in choosing a quality book:
1. Read the synopsis
Synopsis is a summary of the book and its advantages - its advantages. Usually synopsis is presented on the back cover of books.
Read the synopsis of the book before deciding to buy.

2.Bacalah table of contents
We can know the content of a book by looking at the list of contents. Contents are listed point by point from a book.

3. Know the author
Before you buy a book it helps us find out who wrote it. If we know the author of the book as a writer / qualified practitioner we feel confident to buy the book.

5. Club / Community Photos
Community or club is a social organization have same hobby. In every big cities in Indonesia are generally already have a community or club photography. Take some club / photography community, following a club will increase exchange information, knowledge, tips and tricks of the photographers who had already plunged into the world of photography.
After following the club please take time to attend some of the activities the club, it is quite helpful to add references and knowledge of the new science in developing our capabilities.

Tips on choosing a club / community:
Pick a club / community quality, do not choose a community activities just get together and talk show on café alone. Pick a community that has some routines that could drive us deeper into the familiar world of photography.
Ask with the managers / moderators in the club / community continue any such activities.
Club / community good will rapidly push us to learn photography because we are motivated by our fellow colleagues.


6. Hunting photography
Almost every weekend we often hear Hunting Photography, Take a few Hunting Photography. As we follow the Hunting we shall add portpolio us in the picture.
Pick some good hunting and do not be hasty in choosing hunting because it would throw the budget useless, do not just interested in the beautiful model, nice location, but adjust to the needs of our portpolio.
A time is sharing with colleagues when hunting takes place, we regular asked embarrassed to ask a new friend. With many questions with colleagues will add a variety of new insights.

Tips on choosing hunting photography:
Remember Hunting made to facilitate the photographer to make.
Sometimes hunting mischaracterized photography camera gear to show off what we got.
Do not ever feel inferior to the other participants camera or gear.
Choose to add port polio hunting us, do not be careless choosing hunting.

Tips in choosing a hunting photography:
Recognize organizers
As we recognize and know the organizers of hunting we will not be deceived in following these hunting

Find out the concept hunting
Try asking the organizers of what hunting concept, if the organizers of hunting implement the model then we shall know who the model is, what wardrobe to wear, what makeup show.

Adjust with our port polio
Do not follow some hunting with a concept that is almost like when we already have a stock photo or port polio same.

7. Learning from mistakes
Expand the camera shooter button, the more we make a mistake in taking an event, the more to learn from a mistake. Mistakes are a true learning process.
Allow extra time to evaluate our shots, discuss with colleagues our shots. Have positive feedback from them so we can restore our shots.
Interest and embroidery is not enough for fatherly be a successful photographer. Photography skills will be well and truly our quasi seriously if we learn the ins and outs of the world deepen photography.

Tips to learn from a mistake:
Mistakes are not all bad. Errors will provide the basis of new experience to us and usually we will more quickly learn a lesson from a mistake.
There are times when one time we will find the photos bored in learning, especially when we try to picture in many ways, but still ugly. Boredom is a natural thing, it is often experienced by new photographers, try to overcome it bounced back with photos while hunting recreation with family or exhibition see photo, this will lead us back for spirit continued to study photography.

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Photography Composition Giving Space In Motion Subject

Photography Composition Giving Space In Motion Subject

Photography Composition - Some time ago In Photography gave us tips on how to perform photographic composition by giving "empty space" in the frame on the photo subject is moving, or what is often called the "Active Space". This is done to provide a balance in the photo and provide answers to the audience of photos to the question "where to go or moving subjects?"
 

However the rules are made to be broken and each rule has a loophole where we can break them with results better or effective.

1. Moving subjects and leave "something"
The most ideal time to break and break the rules above is when the subject is moving and leaving something or trail. Some moving subjects leave a trail behind them that can be used as a focal point worthy to be included in our photo frame. For example: water behind surfers split water, smoke or jet aircraft the sky blue, smoke or dust from the car rally, and others.
 

 2. Describing the speed
Buddy may also violate the rules when they want to illustrate or highlight the speed of the subject, by placing the subject on the edge frame. In this way my friend could describe the audience that the photo subject is moving fast and hard to catch. 

3. Shows journey
The latter was also deemed appropriate to break the rules, that is, when my friend wanted to visualize a way in which the subject was in goal instead of where they were going.

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Photography tips Aperture and Lens Sharpness

Photography tips Aperture and Lens Sharpness

Technique Photography - Photographer beginners are often surprised to see that the new expensive lenses they bought was not sharp at all aperture settings. When my friend asked the more experienced photographers in the professional sense, they will inform you that there is a difference in terms of image sharpness at any aperture that we used. Each lens has an optimal aperture where he will work with the optimal, in other words we call it the razor-sharp results.
 

Aperture that produces the sharpest or commonly called the "Sweet Spot" varies from lens to lens, but as a rule of thumb, most lenses have a "sweet spot" when they lowered between 2 or 3 stops from maximum aperture. For example, the lens has a maximum aperture of f/2.8 has a "sweet spot" in the f/8.0 aperture.

So how do we know the "Sweet Spot" of the lens?
Actually there is a simple and fun way to test these lenses. Buddy just need a tripod and newspapers. To perform this test or tests you have to do is to attach a piece of paper on the wall, and make sure got enough light. Second, put your camera on a tripod, take a look at the spirit level on the tripod to make sure that the camera and the walls are really parallel. Take a series of photos with the most exposure to the narrow width of the lower one stop each snapshot / frame (do not forget to change the shutter speed in order to get the right exposure and consistent.) Keep shooting until you have gained the exposure (photo) for each aperture .

Buddy then be able to download or transfer images to your Personal Computer (PC), and open all the photos and compare! Compare the images using metadata or often called EXIF, to see how the aperture setting used. Buddies do not be surprised when he saw the results of the comparison, the result is often different in each aperture sharpness.

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Tips to Get Maximum Results From Your DSLR Camera

Tips to Get Maximum Results From Your DSLR Camera

 

Digital cameras are currently experiencing unusually rapid growth. Almost every few months the camera manufacturer will introduce a new body loaded with features and technologies not previously available, but this is not a bad thing. All photographers gain more benefits from this new camera in terms of improving their performance, it means you may have to upgrade your camera every year or so. Using roll film camera era has passed where you used to be able to upgrade your camera every five years or so.
 

Today's digital cameras as if transformed into a super computer, where it can generate the process for shooting, playback and even editing. For a beginner or an experienced pro, is very important to know what settings are contained in a camera and set it to the needs of each one so they get the most out of the camera. Use the tips below to get the best performance from your new DSLR:

1. Use the RAW file format
Choosing the right file format is the first step in using your new DSLR. The file format determines the size and quality of images that can be stored on your memory card. There are two options, JPEG or RAW. JPEG files are processed in accordance with the camera settings you have specified. This file is good for a variety of purposes as long as you get the exposure and white balance right. But when you open a JPEG file on the computer, the data that has been stored in this format will reduce your options to further optimize the images.
RAW data file is completely pure or unprocessed, which contains the original pixel sensor data.
Editing software now has many options for RAW processing, which allows various adjustments of RAW images without degrading quality. If you're just starting out, try using RAW + JPEG option, if your camera has this option to get a second image format. This approach requires more memory space, but you have the flexibility to process and adjust to your liking.

2. Use the camera's Noise Reduction
You can take pictures in RAW format and then do some optimization on postprocessing. You can do the sharpening, color saturation and contrast, and other variables in the media in your Photoshop image processing. But there is one setting that can be done in the camera settings to reduce noise is noise reduction.
If you love taking pictures and shooting star dusk, this situation is the low-light and require a lens opening of a second to more than an hour. Long exposure will result in excessive noise. This is because the digital sensor heats resulting images obtained will result in noise is quite disturbing.
But there is good news from a digital camera manufacturers today, that many digital cameras now have a noise reduction facility. In digital photography, dark frame subtraction is a way to minimize image noise for pictures taken with a long exposure time (long exposure). It takes advantage of the fact that the noise component, known as fixed-pattern noise, are the same from one picture to another, the noise coming from the sensor (dead or hot pixels). It works by taking images at shutter closed. The camera then use this method to identify hot pixels or noise and then eliminate them. After all the shooting period is the same as the first camera to take pictures for the dark frame. In the example above, after the shooting star for an hour, you just need to keep the camera while in a period of one hour, and then you will get a clean image of the noise.

3. Use White Balance
White Balance is a term in photography for calibrating the white point. As explained in the color temperature / color temperature, color white can be varied depending on the lighting conditions. The concept of "white" becomes not something absolute. Most digital cameras can be set to select the white color to suit your taste, usually by pointing the camera to the object is white in the light of existing light, the technique is called a manual white balance. Some cameras can also detect the presence of ambient light and determines itself is white - this is called automatic white balance. While the selection of white balance based on the type of lamp options available on digital cameras called the pre-set white balance.

4. Use Autofocus for photographing
For stationary objects usually in landscape and portrait photo models, usually you'll often use the manual focus mode. But for moving objects eg birds flying in the sky we would not be able to use the manual focus mode to capture fast moving birds we can use autofocus mode.
There are 3 important rules when we use autofocus mode for moving objects:
First, enable continuous servo focus. This mode tells the camera that the object moves so that the camera will continue to focus back to freeze objects. Second, select the dynamic focus to enable more focus point in your camera. This pattern varies for each camera, but it is usually used 9-point pattern to pattern group objects move in a predictable direction. But for erratic moving objects, you can choose the pattern of the larger group. Third, or the latter is to set the frame rate (number of frames or picture frames shown per second in making motion pictures; expressed in units of fps (frames per second), the higher the fps rate, the smoother picture movement). In each camera frame rate you will find different, there is 5fps, 3.9fps, 6.3fps. Everything can be used depending on your needs.

5. Turn on High-Speed ​​Flash Sync
TTL Flash (TTL = Through-The-Lens) in photography has had great advances in technology and capability in recent years. With a flash and a flash on your camera that serves as the master, you can take an object wirelessly and create amazing photos wherever you travel. You can begin to learn to use the on-camera flash in wireless mode as well as a master or remote flash.
You can set further synchronization on your camera, the Nikon camera settings can be found in the custom function menu contained inside the camera. As for the Canon, this option can be found on the flash itself. Set the high speed flash sync. on the camera, allowing you to take pictures with a faster speed than the speed of the average standard of the existing cameras.
For example, when you're taking a model object in the pool under the scorching sun. You want to use some flash to the shutter aperture f/2.8. Aperture will provide background blur effect on your object, the visible evidence that speed cameras should be used is 1/1000 sec for appropriate openings. High speed flash sync. will allow you to take pictures at a speed that allows and add some flash as an extra.

6. Use Sensor Cleaning
You may have felt a bit of trouble when I have to clean up the dust on the surface of your lens is not it? Takes about 30-45 minutes just to clean the dust spots.
Currently, digital camera manufacturers have implemented the majority of digital cameras they produced by adding a sensor cleaning function on the camera. Generally, this function works when we want to turn on or turn off our camera. This function is enough to help us in cleaning the sensor on the camera. But perhaps there is a better way we can do that, we must be willing to clean the sensor manually. This we can do when we often change the lens, because the dust could get in when we remove and replace the lens. Do this every time we change the lens on the camera.

7. Use the Depth-Of-Field Preview
Depth of Field (DOF) means the depth of space. In the world of photography, DOF is technically means the range or variation of the distance between the camera and the subject of the photo to produce a variation of sharpness (focus) images are still acceptable (no blur). In other words, the DOF is used to indicate a specific room in the photo to get special attention because of the difference in sharpness (focus).
DOF preview button is simply a tool that allows us to see approximation (approximate yield) photo will be recorded by the camera. Indeed, we can only see approximate given the view in the viewfinder will get darker as the diminution of the lens diaphragm. So it's rather difficult to judge which object is the focus / sharp and which are not.

8. Use the Image Stabilization
Many of the camera lens now has the ability Image Stabilization (image stabilization). This technology has dramatically increased the chances of getting sharp images in low light levels, when the position of our hands holding the camera. Taking pictures in very low light conditions with a speed of 1/15 second at ISO 6400 with sharp results without blur caused by hand shake, a new dimension in the era of digital photography.
Image Stabilizer was built and implanted into the lens, and there is also a built in sensor that is on the camera body. The system can always use except when you use a tripod or image stabilization depends on the generation you have. Some camera manufacturers recommend changing the stabilization becomes off when we use a tripod. Or you can do the research yourself and the lens of your camera to find the best performance of this system.

9. Use Rain Cover
There is one thing that you should remember when you are going to start activities in the shooting. Always prepare a camera protection from the rain! (Rain cover). Extreme weather happening lately is very difficult to predict, when the daytime weather will be very bright and so hot while in the afternoon it would rain. While many cameras popping with anti-rain facility, anti-dust, and anti shock even when dropped. All these facilities is easier for you when doing a shoot in a variety of weather conditions. For a pro camera, even you can leave the camera on a tripod stand alone when the rain fell, while you are waiting for shelter when the rain stopped!
If so great facilities provided by digital cameras today, then what does it shield the camera from the rain again? A professional photographer told his website: "I use a Nikon D3, and it seems almost Indestructible. I've dropped it on cement floors and shot it in blinding sandstorms Gobi Desert and Alaskan blizzards, and the camera has never let me down. But I still use a rain cover to protect the camera from the elements. Better to be safe than sorry. "
Well now how about you?

10. Read your camera's manual
Read the instruction manual that is in the box your camera! It has become very important for us to know how our camera can work and how we can maximize use. Digital cameras manufactured lately have a varied menu and facilities that may be for some of us are less obvious and less so understand it. There is a video facility, focusing pattern, metering modes, ISO settings and noise reduction that might be a bit much so you do not really understand how to use it. For it is necessary to read the manual book and always include in your camera bag!
These tips may be a little useful to you, good work

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