A Roadmap to Growing as a Beginner Photographer
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Loading... - Noah Taylor
- 30 Jan 2023
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Are you interested in photography and ready to learn skills to up your game? Do you want to evolve from iPhone snapshots to crafting something intentional? Today my plan is to drop some photography-for-beginners tips onto your shutter finger.
First, we’ll dive into some of the lingo you hear and what it means. Next, I’ll teach you a few simple scalable tips to improve your framing and composition. Then we’ll talk about gear that can up your game and this strange antiquated concept of printing and enjoying your photos.
As you read through this guide, you’ll learn a variety of aspects of photography and my main advice is to choose something that interests you and dive deeper. You might just want to get better at taking photos with your phone or you might be interested in learning what the best camera technology allows you to do.
Photography Lingo
There’s a lot of jargon in photography that can make it daunting to learn but understanding that lingo will help you take better photos. When you look at a photo you take and you don’t quite love it, the first step in making it better is to understand why it’s not working. Similarly, when you take a photo you love it helps to know why you love it if you’re going to try to create something similar.
One of the easiest things to drastically improve your photos is to nail the exposure. In simple terms, if your photo is too dark it’s under-exposed and if it’s too light it’s over-exposed. Exposure is a balancing act to get the amount of light just right, and learning the exposure triangle is a key first step in understanding photography.
The second thing that will improve your photographs drastically is composition. How are the various elements in the photograph arranged? You may think that since it’s a photo of real life you don’t have control, however, you can actually change your body position or change what you include in the photo and it can have a big impact on the result. Read More…
