How to learn a photography?

[mitrabhanumeher2013]

Hi Friends,

I am beginner for photography. Please help me how to learn a photography ....




Thanks
Mitrabhanu Meher
SelectCiti
Chennai

 

[joethephotographer]

This is what helped me get started:

- Online tutorials like Cambridge in Colour - Photography Tutorials & Learning Community
- YouTube
- Pick up a camera and take pictures

It also usually helps if you post specific questions (like how to I take portraits, what settings should I use for night photography, etc).

 

[KmH]

Learn the fundamentals of how the camera works and what features, functions, and capabilities your camera offers. Digital single-lens reflex camera - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The best resource for the features, functions, and capabilities your camera is the camera user's manual.
The manual is not fun reading, and while the manual explains what features, functions, and capabilities your camera has it won't detail how to use them to make photographs.

Learn about photographic lighting and how the direction and quality of light affect a photograph.
How Does Different Lighting Affect Photography? | eHow
How the direction and quality of light affect a photograph - Bing

Digital Photography Tutorials | Learning Photographic Techniques
Learn Digital Photography Basics
10 Top Photography Composition Rules | Photography Mad
Advanced Composition -- Part I

Photographic Lighting stuff:

Light Science and Magic, Fourth Edition: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting
Strobist: Lighting 101
http://neilvn.com/tangents/flash-photography-techniques/

 

[The_Traveler]

- Online tutorials like Cambridge in Colour - Photography Tutorials & Learning Community
- YouTube
- Pick up a camera and take pictures

It also usually helps if you post specific questions (like how to I take portraits, what settings should I use for night photography, etc).

I suggest that, rather than asking general questions, which are already well answered in thousands of places on the web and would require books to answer directly, that you try to learn yourself using tutorials and then only come here to ask questions when you are confused or at an impasse.

 

[ronlane]

Now Lew, you forgot to welcome them first before giving your advice.

Welcome OP, see the links above and search this site for any questions that you have. Chances are very good that it's been asked on here.

 

[Braineack]

starting charging people to take pictures, then go directly to Lew with questions on basic operation/technique.

 

[The_Traveler]

Now Lew, you forgot to welcome them first before giving your advice.

Welcome OP, see the links above and search this site for any questions that you have. Chances are very good that it's been asked on here.

Oops, yes, Welcome.

 

[ronlane]

Now Lew, you forgot to welcome them first before giving your advice.

Welcome OP, see the links above and search this site for any questions that you have. Chances are very good that it's been asked on here.

Oops, yes, Welcome.

 

[peeteygirl]

I would say learn the definitions of aperture, shutter speed and ISO first, then learn how they affect each other, which is called the exposure triangle. Here's 2 articles about it.
The Exposure Triangle and How it Affects Your Photos
http://jfletcherphoto.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/the-exposure-tiangle-in-beginner-speak-the-end-of-auto-mode/
Google is your best friend in this process, google any and every question and slowly you'll accumulate knowledge :mrgreen:

 

[Ihatemymoney]

Welcome to the forum
Light Science and Magic has helped me more then any other book I have bought.
Some the online video's on you tube has also been a big help.

 

[Tailgunner]

starting charging people to take pictures, then go directly to Lew with questions on basic operation/technique.

Haha!

Ya, I would hold off charging people for a while...like a couple years. Anyhow, my best advice is buy a camera and start wearing it out.

 

[Hampiainen]

Welcome to the forum. Im newbie at this forum aswell . I learned alot just by shooting. When i got my DSLR, i started right there shoot only with manual settings. It's now about 10 months since i started, and now i know really well how basic things work in camera, and i think i have actually taken some pretty good pictures.

So basicly
-Shoot alot
-Maybe read something about exposures and stuff.

 

[DNel928]

Haha!

Ya, I would hold off charging people for a while...like a couple years. Anyhow, my best advice is buy a camera and start wearing it out.

Some of the best advice I've heard.

 

[DiskoJoe]

Hi Friends,

I am beginner for photography. Please help me how to learn a photography ....




Thanks
Mitrabhanu Meher
SelectCiti
Chennai

Get camera. Push button. Repeat.

 

[480sparky]

Hi Friends,

I am beginner for photography. Please help me how to learn a photography ....




Thanks
Mitrabhanu Meher
SelectCiti
Chennai

Go forth and actuate.