How To Take Photographs – Beginning Photography 101
No matter how hard I try my pictures don’t turn out the way I expect them to. I must be using a crappy camera. Does this sound like you?
When taking photos, you must understand it is not the camera that makes a picture good, it’s the person taking the pictures. In order to get really good pictures, you must first know the basics of photography. The basics are…
Take time to learn your camera inside and out. Read over the camera manual then fiddle with the different functions and familiarize yourself with which function to use at what moment.
Take pictures of everything. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. The more pictures you take, the more experience you gain. Besides, you never know when you may come across a great opportunity.
Be picky of which photos you want to keep. Delete any unwanted or bad pictures that are over/underexposed, out of focus or just plain boring.
Find really good pictures from magazines or online and compare them to yours. Look at the differences and pick out why theirs are better, then work on making yours just as good.
Never give up. Photographers were not born great, they earned it through trial and error. The same trial and error you are going through right now.
One last thing, never place the motif ( recurring subject, theme or idea ) in the middle of the picture. Also avoid direct sunlight when taking pictures.