Right now, you have in your hands the most coveted treasure, your most desired gift, the dark object of desire to which you have always aspired. You probably feel like Gollum in The Lord of the Rings shouting “my treasure” and realize that, as if it were the ring, the power of the camera traps you and knocks you down to take pictures everywhere as well, from the picture to your hands and directly pressing the trigger button, ignoring the home box ?.
If you’ve ever driven a REFLEX, much better, let yourself be fooled by the power of the SLR, but if it’s your first SLR camera, as the title says, if it’s your first time in your hands for more than a minute, please, before it deceived the power of the ring or you go to the dark side of the force (with your permission I’ll change the saga , you should read this article. I’ll tell you what you can do to get the most out of your new acquisition, because you can get carried away by the dark side of the force or train like a good Jedi. Do you have a decision?
- Oh.
- Yes.
- That’s obvious.
- Don’t you probably think I should skip this obvious step?Well.
- No.
- For the simple reason that more than 90% of people who have their first SLR in hand don’t read the manual (or at least at first) and I set fire to their hand.
- Is it so tempting to start shooting right away?Total.
- If there are automatic modes and there are small images on the buttons?Meeec!Error!Do you happen to know how many options and settings an SLR camera has?Do you have any idea what it’s like?.
If you don’t read the instruction manual, you can take a photo (or more) but you won’t even get 15% of its performance. And then you’ll have to wonder why you wanted an SLR, if a compact one was worth it, or you’ll be frustrated because you won’t get the photos you thought you’d take with your SLR. Yes or yes. Read the manual, camera next to it, button by button, option by option. Navigate the menu from start to finish with the manual next to it, reading each section. It can take a day or two or more, depending on how much time you can spend on it, but I assure you that if you don’t read it completely, you will have wasted your money, know your camera to get the most out of it, to be faster when shooting, not to get lost on the menu and lose a photo, so as not to despair at the most unexpected time.
Your camera has different shooting modes, automatic, such as automatic mode, portrait mode, landscape mode, sports mode, etc. , with which you have nothing to do, the camera does it for you, then there are the semi-manuals with the adjusting one setting and the camera the other; or manual, in which you choose both the shutter speed and the aperture of the diaphragm. Automatic modes are perfect for emergencies. But that’s it. If you have a DSLR, it’s to go beyond automatic mode. Learn about programmable mode, aperture priority mode, speed priority mode and when to use it. To do this, read this article with your camera in hand, try take them out and little by little you will discover the one that best suits your photography style or the one that you can use at all times, for now you just have to know them and at least shoot each one of them several times to see the differences.
When you try semi-manual modes or manual mode, you’ll see that some photos are too dark, others too bright or burned. To get proper exposure, you need to learn how to master the well-known triangle of light: aperture, speed, ISO Only when you know how each of these settings works, how they influence photography and how they relate to each other, you will get the right exposure with manual mode. Read this Mario article and can you be a magician of light?Don’t despair, this is not done in a day or two, the theory is, but you will have to practice it for several more days and weeks until you master the light in your photographs. Knowing this will help you not be discouraged.
One of the aspects you wanted most with your camera was certainly developing one part of the photo and another not, it is a very visual and obvious effect at first glance, so it is one of the first things you have decided to achieve with your SLR. To do this, put your camera in priority mode at the aperture and open the diaphragm to the maximum, then take the same photo by closing the diaphragm. You can also do several tests by focusing the foreground and then the background to observe the different effects, be careful, do not expect miracles with the lens of the kit, usually do not have an excessive opening, although enough for you to learn how to handle this concept.
If the previous day you trained with depth of field, today you have to train with the firing speed, this configuration will allow you to freeze the movement, such as when you photograph a drop of water falling, or transmit a movement, to capture it, as with the rays of light that cars draw on a road at night. Working with slow shutter speeds also allows you to get the silky effect of water or amazing creative effects like these.
Will these last two days also help you practice the triangle of light and reinforce concepts?
In addition to the triangle of light, you should know that to get adequate exposure there is another parameter that can greatly influence and that is how light is measured. When you read the instruction manual, you encounter terms such as evaluative measurement, point measurement, or center weighted measurement. Well, go back to that and take the same photo by varying the measurement mode. Do several tests, with different lighting situations and check the different results.
While it may seem like anyone knows how to hold a camera, it’s not that easy or so instinctive. Holding the SLR camera correctly can make the difference between a moved photo or a perfect photo. There are many other factors to get sharp photos, but there will be no need to control them all if your camera simply trembles at the time of shooting for not holding it tight or not having the right posture. Don’t miss this article that explains all the details to know how to properly hold an SLR camera.
You’re ready, you have the basic training to let your strength flood your photos. You know your camera, the basics. It’s time for you to go out and photograph and learn how to compose, get excited and excited, have fun and have fun doing one of the things you love most in the world: photographing.
If you have a little time to waste before you leave, you’re also interested in reading this article about things to do when you have your camera and this one where I’ll tell you some lessons that I would have liked you to share with me before. you embarked on this world, I wish they’d told me all these things before!
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