When it comes to mastering the craft of photographing, there
are many "tricks" you can adopt, but only putting them into practice
and doing your own research will produce the best results. Here, professional photographer Yotvat Kariti shares some basic guidelines to help you get started.
In writing these articles, she has tried to look
at things from the perspective of the average amateur photographer - people who
love photography but are unable to spend more money on their hobby just to buy
equipment. For this reason, Yotvat Kariti has emphasized in the texts the controls that
can be found on cheaper cameras, regardless of the fact that the controls of
the more expensive cameras are better understood and ergonomically better
implemented. However, realistically, more than 80% of cameras on the market are
quite limited in parameter management.
Photographing People
If the desired result is a large frame of a person or
portrait, Yotvat Kariti’s main tip is to vertically rotate the camera for the
so-called portrait shooting! However, if you want a more complex frame with
perhaps detached details, several functions need adjusting. The combination of
adjusting shutter speed, aperture, and ISO are probably the basics that are
good to adopt first.
It is important to note that these settings are dependent on
each other and that it is always necessary to subordinate the other two to the
extent that we think is most important in a particular photograph, depending on
the desired result. For example, if you want to highlight a certain person and
somehow separate them from the mass, the environment needs to be blurred with
respect to the main subject. Here, the aperture, which should be as large as
possible (depending on the type of camera approx. F1.4 to F4), is the most
important setting. If you are shooting without a tripod, the shutter speed
should be as high as possible (but according to the original setting), while
the camera itself will show whether the frame is properly lit, or whether or
not you need to adjust the ISO value. If you find that background events are
more interesting than the original subject, then with the presets you just need
to focus on the newly observed subject. This gives us a sharpened background in
relation to our closest subject (most often a person).
Photographing Movement
If we have one or more moving subjects in the frame, the
most important thing is to decide if we want to emphasize or eliminate the
motion effect! The higher the shutter speed, the less likely it is to blur, or
the higher the shutter speed, the more sharp the subjects will be. If you
reduce the shutter speed when photographing, for example, a waterfall, the
result will be a soft, slightly milky view of its fall. Similarly, if we want
to emphasize the dance movement, this kind of setting will give us a blurred
track in the direction of the dancer's movement.
As with many hobbies, the great thing about photography is
you can reignite your passion. So, hopefully these tips can help you to take
your photography to the next level.
