10 Best Techniques To Be a Better Photographer in NO TIME! #3

Hello friends! Today I am presenting to you this blog on the one year anniversary of my first DSLR camera. So if you’ve finally decided Whether to start photography, then you’re at the right place to know the Beginners Techniques!

I know how frustrating it is to make your photo stand out of millions when everyone with a camera or a mobile is randomly taking pictures, editing them recklessly and uploading it somewhere to showcase. It can be quite overwhelming to compete them and stand out.

Show the best way to solve? All say the answer is “practice and practise”, but if you ask me, I’ll say as I believe now, practice does not make a man perfect on its own, only the perfect practice does the work so rather than finding handful of good editing softwares and trying to practice harder aimlessly let’s update our process to practice smarter. shall we?

But I’m presenting to you 10 best, easiest and really smart techniques to improve your photography in no time (which I really wished I had known when I started my journey!) So pick up the to do list and add this with star (🌟) marks beside it:

1. Slow Down:- It is the first point as it is most neglected by most of the beginners. How? Okay, let me disclose that to you. let’s say that you woke up in the morning and planned to practice a lot for the day and you start to take random photos, lots and lots of images and expected the images to be good (some of them even might be!). But have you ever thought of what type images of the subject you are going to take? Have you for once at least though how you want the image to be taken.. whether a coffee mugs pattern in wonderful light you want to capture or the whole of the coffee mug itself? So plan and visualize your image before shooting!
2. Stop flipping the screen:- you always take a photo and look back at the screen frequently, a habit known by “chimping”, It is good to do but not as a beginner. I know this sounds Horrible but yes, you have to stop chimping if you want to improve your skill faster. I know it may seem good to check your photos and plan the next accordingly, but that’s only in case you want to take serious photographs and definitely not when you are learning. During learning you must click and shoot with all your creative ideas and then find faults while reviewing them later. This will surely increase your skill faster.
3. Kill your accustomed habit:- You must overcome your laziness in order to be a better photographer. Being a photographer requires some sacrifices and on the top of it being your comfort zone. In order to take great photos ,you must look for better light, better environment, better incidents and time which is most likely to appear at any time of the day. For example to learn Astrophotography and to shoot star-trails you gotta wait hours pass midnight and even after.
4. Review your Images:- While learning and shooting, you also have to keep an eye on your photos. You will be surprised on your own to notice how efficiently you will be able to discover the mistakes made in those photos at the earlier times when you started to shoot.
5. Delete Your Photos:- This may sound irrelevant but this is something that I personally experienced and concluded from my own learning process. As a beginner it is not uncommon that you will end up with lots of images of the same event and you will like all of them. But you have to make a cold heart and delete all but one. Why? Because while doing so, you will have to delete most of the photos and keep the best and hence you will know why and how the photo that is better than the others. This is a passive process but trust me, it’ll do a magic in you because taking multiple pictures and keeping a of few of them is very tough and a have-to-do thing for every photographer! Plus it will save you loads of space as well!
6. Don’t Post Process:- For every beginner it is very alluring to shoot and embellish the photos by editing and posting ASAP. But No Sir! This is a poison for your learning process, I call it catalytic poison, as it slows down your learning process exponentially! I agree that editing/ post processing is important but that’s only to fine tune your images (and not to manipulate images.)
7. Practice Everyday:- Practicing and mastering your camera skills regularly can beat anyone in the field and hence don’t stop! Just keep shooting anything and everything you see, but just be sure to think and plan your shots rather than random clicking.
8. Post Your photos online:- It’s very important to publish your photos online and to get criticized by other creators. Learn from your mistakes and see what other photographers comment on your photos. The best platform for this, as I felt, is Facebook and Instagram.
9. Open Your Eyes:- Every detail in photography matters, not only the main subject of your image. Look into the background events and see how does it matter. You must make a habit to see like a photographer, that is, every nooks and corners of a picture. You’ll be shocked to discover how many little things you can learn about photography from the background of photos you see.
10. Cut down your gears:- Don’t concentrate on all gears you have while learning basics. Photography have infinite type gears and each one of them needs mastering and it takes time. To boost your learning I suggest you to use only a few gears (a camera, lens and tripod, if necessary). You can even switch to a prime lens rather than any zoom lens as then you be able to focus on settings and composition with one headache less!

Remember: Camera companies will always try to convince you to get more better models, more gears etc, etc. You may feel the same, that perhaps have you had a faster lens, and a tripod, and a super costly filter, you could have taken a much better picture. It’s all might be due to their influencing tactics and influencers you saw online. Only your camera and a basic lens is enough to get started and learn, unless you’re already a pro!

AN EXTRA TIP:- Exit your Auto Modes: Auto Modes like (Tv, Av, A) are good in specific situations. But to learn the real funda of photography and its aspects, you have to explore Manual Mode(M). At first it may seem an impossible task to take balanced images, but trust me, if you try and learn…within an week you’ll feel comfortable with it. Manual mode actually helps one to develop the very basic concepts and factors of camera and photography which are unavoidable in case you want to nail your every photo. I can feel how helpless and demotivated you may feel but it’ll go in a just a few days! So stop thinking much….and dive deeeeeeeeepppp!

View : A Morning As I Saw It

All the best!

These are the techniques that I used on my own, When I started it all and that’s How I Started my photography!

Thank you mate!

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