What is Photography and Introduction to Photography

Hi, Myself David miller professional photographer for 12 years. Photography has changed my life. Life is full of photos, images or pics. The best camera in the world to click the photos is your eyes. From the day one of your birth you keep on clicking the things whatever you seen in life by blinking your eyes but you are not able to save all the images in your brain. Hence, the technology has replaced digital cameras, DSLR cameras, Mobile cameras, Digi Cam to save the pictures clicked.

Let’s have a discuss what is photography? How to become professional photographer? Now a day whenever you to trips, functions, sports etc. the first thing you seen is camera hanging on neck or clicking pics on mobile camera.

What is Photography?

Photography is art of showing the things and visual information where image says everything. It’s not only clicking photos simply good photography is always showing the images in different way always. Before become a photographer you should know about arts. As you know in past there were no camera, painter use to paint the things. After the invention of camera only black & white photos were there. As the technology is improved color photos are introduced. Now you can edit the photos, can change the color of photos & can manipulate according to your need from many software tools like Adobe Photoshop, Light room etc.

Small Introduction about photography

It’s not a rocket science to become photographer now a day. Just buy a less price DSLR camera and you learn basic photography. In addition to that get registered for onlinephotography courses from Shaw Academy. This helps you how to use DLSR camera and what are all the options available in it. Only Clicking the photos doesn’t make you good photographer also learn about some soft wares like how to use Photoshop and light room.  There are many types of photography like wedding photography, wild photography, Fashion, advertise, portrait photography etc. But the photographer aim is to take clear and perfect picture.

Some of the following are important for capture good pics like Film Speed, Shutter Speed, Aperture, Lenses, Framing, Portrait Techniques, Landscapes etc.

Free Online Photography Course from Shaw Academy

Photography has become hobby and profession as well. Some select photography as a hobby to capture photos in free time in travel, trips and events. Some take it as a professional like wedding photography, Wild life photography, Film photography, Fashion photography and many more. Photography profession is one-time investment it starts with purchasing good DSLR cameras and lenses, tripods i.e. full camera set. Lenses depends on styles of photography. Wild life photographer needs wildlife lenses which has good image quality compared to normal lenses also zoom range will be 200 mm to 400 mm whereas wedding photographer needs 100 mm zoom range lenses.

In this fastest growing technology DSLR cameras has become more popular and demand for digital camera drastically decreased. It’s bit difficult to operate DLSR camera for beginners because of more buttons and options. Now it’s easy to learn photography for beginners who are interested to become professional photographer. Shaw Academy is offering free Online Photography Courses for beginners and experts who wanted to enhance their skills. Photography always begins with choosing camera Canon or Nikon. It’s a great confusion with all which DSLR camera is best for beginners.

Online photography course will help you to learn online whenever you need. There will be live session which is reminded before lesson starts. If you miss the session you can learn by watching recorded session.

This course will help you to understand following main points explained in different lessons,

• What is photography? Which are the camera types available in the market and which camera is to be preferred for your photography.
• Camera Functions: Most of the DSLR cameras having common functions and similar options. This will help you to understand functions.
  
• Lenses Type: Detail information about lens quality and sharpness explains about commonly used lenses when and where they are used. 
  
• Capturing Light: How to capture and record light to improve your capturing photos.

To know more about syllabus for photography course get register with Shaw academy free online photography course. Get certifications of diploma in photography, Advanced photography and become professional photographer. Also get a chances to win 1000$ and many more offers at end the of sessions.

Night Photography Tips for Beginners

It’s easy for photographers to capture images during the day time. But capturing the images in the night is not an easy job for photographers. The first and the foremost things you need to do is “know your camera”. A thorough understanding of the camera is essential before diving into night photography.

Equipment Essential for Night Photography
• Tripod – The Tripod is the most important tool for night photography. The shutter speeds should be slow in night photography. A Tripod helps in controlling the shake or movement and avoids the blur while capturing the images at slow shutter speeds.

• Shutter Release/Self Timer – Sometimes during long exposures the press of shutter button can even cause camera blur. Use the self-timer to overcome the blur during long exposures.

• Lens Hood – Scenes with bright light will create lens flares during night photography. Lens Hood is a must to over the night flares.

• Flash Light – It is difficult to see the buttons during the night time. A flash light is an essential device in the dark for night photography.

• Wide Angle Lens – Usage of wide angle lens makes the images visually appetizing in the night.

Get set go for Night Photography once you are ready with all the equipment listed above.

White Balance: White balance is the most important setting in night photography. Avoid automatic white balance. Set the white balance to day light as it preserves the colors and hues during night photography.

Fast Shutter Speeds: Use fast shutter speeds if you want the movements in the images to be clear and in focus during night photography.

Slow Shutter Speeds: Use slow shutter speeds if you want to blur the motion in images during night photography.

Aperture: To capture a deep focus use a small aperture. The more expansive the depth the smaller the aperture.

The golden hour for night photography is right before the night and last minutes of sunset. Beautiful skies and lighting gives a chance to combine different color temperatures and gives great photo shots.

Grab your cameras and start shooting some amazing night photos. Hope these tips helps in improving your night photography skills. If you are interested in learning more photography tips and techniques come join Free Online Photography Courses at Shaw Academy.

Beginners Guide to Understand What is Shutter Speed- Shaw Academy Photography

Shutter Speed is more important aspect in Photography like ISO and Aperture. Shutter speed also known as exposure time. Shutter speed is measured in fractions of seconds. Normally 1/60 or more than that used commonly used. If its below 1/60 camera gets shake and image will be blurred in this case it’s better to use tripod. Lets discuss what is shutter speed in introduction to photography.

What is Shutter Speed

Shutter Speed is shutter can open in amount of time. There many options for shutter speeds – 1/8, 1/15, 1/30, 1/60, 1/125, 1/250, 1/500 so on. It’s very easy to find shutter speed in camera it’s shown on top left corner in the screen. Usually photo can be clicked in 3 types of shutter speed.

FAST shutter speed- where image clicked clearly without any blur as shown in below image.

MEDIUM shutter speed- In this image is clicked in little blur not clearly captured due to change in shutter speed number as shown in below image.

SLOW shutter speed- This shutter speed will result in fully blur form as shown in below image.

Usually shutter speed is used in moving subjects like when the vehicles are moving, animals are running or jumping, birds are flying shutter speed is applied. Image below shows you how shutter speed changes. To learn more about Shutter Speed register for the photography free course from Shaw Academy.

Tips for How to Use Shutter Speed

·         Use shutter speed faster when you need to halt the motion in photography.

·         If you want to click the blurry image for moving subject keep your shutter speed lower

·         While using lenses avoid the camera shake when shutter speed is high to avoid blurry images.

Conclusion

Movement is stopped when shutter speed is increased.
Movement is blurred when shutter speed is decreased.

Sources:

http://imaging.nikon.com/lineup/dslr/basics/04/03.htm

http://www.wikihow.com/Choose-a-Camera-Shutter-Speed

Different Styles of Photography Which Improves Your Photography Knowledge

Photography your lips goes up when you hear this word. Who don’t want to give a pose to camera? Everyone wants to pose and smile for the camera. People pack the camera first when they plan to go for outing, family functions or events. From older generation to younger generation click a photo from camera or smart phones. There are different types of photography and each has its own styles of photography. Let’s discuss few photography styles which ever we see in daily life.

Black & White Photography

Every one might know this fact that there was no colourful photos in previous days when camera has invented. Whenever you click the photo it was captured only in black and white colour. Nowadays also photographers love to click black and white photos because it looks different and unique. You have many photo edit soft wares where you can edit or convert colour phots into black & white.

Dark Room Photography

Dark room is another style of photography where photographers will be working with film by making surrounding i.e. room completely dark. During 19^th century dark room photography was very popular. Later photography has grown up lot. Colour photography, digital photography took over dark room.

Macro Photography

In macro photography photos are clicked by very closely to the object. In this, size of the object looks bigger than original size. Macro photography is called by many types like photomicrography macrography. It’s very easy to click a macro photo by using Macro lenses. Usually macro photos were taken on insects, flowers, water and tiny objects.

HDR Photography

High dynamic Range photography will produce dynamic range of photos which attracts to human eyes. HDR photos are developed by normal photos which looks with special effects. Photographers use tools like Adobe Lightroom to make HDR photos.

Panoramic Photography

Panoramic photography is joining many photos into single photo captured in same camera. In this style N number of photos were taken and some of them were merged into single by editing. We have specific panorama cameras in the market to take panorama photos but its costs little expensive.

Tips and Tricks for How to Learn Photography and Its Techniques

Photography is my passion, hobby, profession, daily routine. In one word I want to say that photography is Everything for me. Photography which is beautiful art in this world to capture images and represent it. We have different type of photographers like wedding photographer, Wild life photographer, Fashion photographer, Advertising Photographer and many more. Every different photographer has own styles and techniques to capture the photos. Initially you should know how to use DSLR cameras and its functionalities.

 Learn different styles of photography techniques by Shaw Academy

1. Buy suitable DSLR Camera and Lens. If you are beginner photographer go with the basic DSLR cameras so that it will be easy to learn and operate. Once you gain knowledge about functions and operations buy a professional camera and lenses. Always it’s a confusion to which lens to buy?
According to distance of photos you can select lens like 18mm, 28mm, 50mm, 70mm and 200mm.

2. Learn basic definitions of ISO, Aperture, Shutter Speed, High Dynamic Range, Focal Length etc.
These aspects are very important and essential for all photographers.

3. Never ever forget the Tripod which is most important for photography. You may feel carrying tripod can be Burden. But if you want to click perfect photos with good size, clarity and view tripod is mandatory.

4. Select a proper place to capture photos. In all the places we can’t take colorful photos. It’s important to click photos in places like market, events & family functions, nature and animals.
Also, give importance for the background, many time quality of the photo depends on background too. If the lead photo is good and background is dim or inappropriate, then it won’t be better photography.

5. Light is most important thing in the photography. Photos won’t look in the dark. You could have seen many photographers use lighting kits even wedding, fashion and still photography. We can call it as portrait photography where photo is captured using light and background.