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01/31/12(Tue)16:36 No.1506771>>1506675
This
is actually really solid advice. When I started shooting, I read
everything I could get my hands on. Heck, I could talk about all the
technical aspects of photography, but it was only after a few years of
actually playing around with my camera that I really started to feel
like I understood how those things worked practically. It's one thing to
know that a quick shutter speed will freeze motion; it's another thing
to see a guy riding a bike in the fog and try to figure out how to
capture him on the fly.
Here are two things which really helped me when starting out:
1)
I bought a prime lens (50mm 1.4). That way, if I wanted to take a
picture of something, I actually had to move my lazy ass around to get
the shot. From that, I learned a tremendous amount about perspective.
Also, having the ability to control aperture from very low to very high
helped me to really see the range of how it can work. Do yourself a
favor and get a prime lens. It'll take better pictures than your kit
lens, and you'll actually learn how to use it properly.
2) The
best advice I ever received was to stop before I took a picture and to
actually figure out what it was, exactly, that made me want to take a
picture. Was it the color? Was it the shape? Was it the contrast? Was it
the shadow? Then, once I had identified what it was that caught my eye,
I consciously thought about how to capture that aspect best with my
equipment. (This, again, is where having a good prime lens will help you
to walk around and really see how it all fits together.) |
