I know, I repeat myself more than garlic ?, but I will not tire of repeating as many times as necessary to learn photography, you have to practice it, it is not worth reading books, follow this blog (or any other) or memorize your camera instruction manual if you do not practice the theoretical knowledge that you have learned, that is why today we will do as when we went to school we were sent tasks , but by far, at school we made them out of obligation, here I suggest what you can do to overcome yourself, and you, as an adult and lover of photography, decide to do them or not ?. Although I know you love photography so much and want to improve so much that you’re already wondering what these exercises are to get to work.
Will I offer you exercises in which you will have to work on contrasts, light, shutter speed? These exercises will help you learn techniques that will help you improve your photos in general. The photographer’s eye and creativity are a fundamental part of this art. but technology also helps. It is not necessary to capture a beautiful image with a perfect composition in which the lack of light completely deteriorates the result, or it is a little blurry.
- It is a really useful exercise to learn how to handle light.
- It will help you work on both sides.
- With lots of light and with very little light to get really different results.
- You will learn to manage the light and distribute it strategically.
- You will learn how to take a type of photograph that has a big impact on the viewer.
Here’s a step-by-step explanation of how to get these images and here are two examples to let you know what I’m talking about.
One way to practice prolonged exposure is to achieve the familiar silk effect of water, like the one in the following image. He may have tried it before and done well, or it could have been a disaster. The main problem with which we do not do this exercise is that we tend to try in daylight and the photos are overexposed. Practice these days if you have a river or sea nearby, otherwise a fountain in your city can be useful to learn. The important thing is for the water to move. Here theium explains perfectly how to achieve it.
Maybe you’ve done this exercise before, or maybe you haven’t, if you’ve already done it, you can try repeating it to give it a creative touch, to put your differentiating impass on it. that almost all photos of water droplets are very similar. Can you try to capture the drop that falls on an object, a fruit, your hands?anyway, let your imagination and creativity work.
If you haven’t practiced it yet, you should know that it’s a good exercise to learn how to control shutter speed and lighting, it’s not an easy exercise, it takes a lot of patience, but when you manage to catch well, you feel that the effort is worth it and you end up jumping with joy.
In this article, Mario explains how to photograph a drop of water without dying of despair, or you can also capture water droplets in a different context like rainy days, although of course you depend on the weather.
You can practice this exercise at sunset to understand the principles of exposure measurement, since the backlight has nothing to do with that of the subject, you will get a silhouette that will have more or less strength depending on what you can count. If your silhouette seems to tell a story, your photo will have a greater impact and interest.
Photographing smoke will help you understand backlighting, one of the most basic lighting patterns, and train with your external flash. In this tutorial, I explain step by step how to make your smoke photography. If you’ve already done it and want to preserve it, training, try to introduce a creative element, like a color filter or try to get the same result with another background, that left it to your choice so you can use a little imagination and experimentation.
This exercise is not intended to learn techniques, but to train your creativity, choose a theme, the one you like the most, and make a series of photographs that revolve around that subject, of course it is not worth shooting, put into practice what you have already learned!
The mastery of depth of field is very important in photography. By playing with it, you can give more importance to your subjects or make more spectacular landscapes. Capture the same subject or person playing with different “f numbers” and alternative focus between the foreground and the background, this way you will check the different effects depending on the depth of field you are using or the part of the image you are focusing or blurring, this is an exercise that will be very useful to improve your portraits.
Light is not only an essential element in obtaining a photograph, it can also become a creative element or the protagonist himself. One way to learn how light can “affect” your photo is to take pictures in the same frame at different times of the day. The result will be very different in golden hour (sunset or sunrise), blue hour (between sunrise or sunset and total darkness) or noon. This exercise will help you make the most of the different shades offered by natural light. Depending on the time of day, it is true that it is common for the best time to be at dusk or dawn, but it will also depend on what you want to achieve or transmit with your images.
But not just any portrait, a portrait that says much more, that says something about the subject’s personality, that his gestures and his gaze talk about him and his story, I recommend you take a look at this article and this one first.
It’s a very hard exercise, throwing away our work is not easy, I know, but it’s necessary. As you progress through this art and improve the quality of your photographs, you will find that many of the images that initially seemed stunning (apart from modesty, happened to us all) will now see that ‘they are not so good’. You’ve already learned to be a little more fussy or selective and you’re sure to be picky about yourself. I’m not talking about removing memories, these images don’t care if they have more or less quality, because they have heart. But surely there are many more who are “empty” and besides not transmitting or remembering, they lack interest. This exercise will not only help you make room on your disc for future shots, but it will also help you shoot better from now on and motivate you, as it will help you verify that you have improved over time. time and you’re on the right path, that of learning.
You already have homework to practice even without leaving home Can you work up and down, depth of field, smoke and water without leaving home and cleaning the discs even without moving from your chair ?. Then you can practice NOW without apologizing. Theory and words go very well, but eventually they fade in our brains, while hands-on learning is strengthened in such a way that you apply what you’ve learned even without realizing it.
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