HOW TO CLICK GOOD PHOTOGRAPHS

In today’s time, most of the people are obsessed towards photography. But many beginners get confused on how to have start or what course they have to do or what points they should keep in mind while clicking photographs. Clicking good photographs is an art. It obviously depends upon the quality, experience and depth of knowledge of the photographer.  A good photographer must have to keep several things in mind. Following are:-

1.    Time

It’s basically for outdoor photography. An outdoor photography matters when a person is taking a photograph, whether it is taken in the morning or in the afternoon, or in dusk or at the night. The photographer has to wait for right time for capturing the required photography. Most of the photographs are discarded or becomes non-acceptable because of the wrong timing. Few days back, a clicked photograph of a rare type of BLACK PANTHER went viral in SOCIAL MEDIA. The photograph was clicked by wildlife photographer SHAAZ JUNG.

1.    Background

 A suitable background in a picture always attracts audience. A beautiful background including waterfall, mountain, landscapes, woods, greenery are notable examples of background having in a picture. When you have chosen an attractive background for your photos, think you won half the battle. With good timing and a perfect background your model maybe humans or animals would be looking gorgeous. A perfect background can give your photograph a lively look, a grandeur appearance. Many a times we change our background in our computer, even at that time, one has to choose a suitable background with the scene. The composition of the image is very important to have an emphasize on the subject.

1.    Setup

      Setup is required for good photography whether it is an indoor photography or outdoor photography. When you are possessing a good setup as a photographer, no one can stop you from capturing good quality photograph.

INDOOR

Fields of photography like portraiture, wedding photography, model photography, interior designing photography, needs an indoor setup which consists of 1. Camera with good wide angle and primer lens 2. Good lighting setup which includes (flashlights, umbrella light, diffuser, reflector and trigger) 3. A tripod for continuous capturing.

OUTDOOR

Fields of photography like wildlife photography, travel photography, landscape photography, and mountain photography and photo journalism needs a well-equipped devices.

 1.       Camera and Lenses

Inside camera and lenses, we have

•       Camera Body

•       4-10mm lens; 10-20mm lens; 16-40mm lens; 18-200mm lens; 18-400mm lens; 55-250mm lens; 70-300mm lens; 100-300mm lens; 150-600mm lens; 200-500mm lens

2.       Additional Camera Gear

In additional gear section, we have many varieties of equipment’s for backup. They are as:

•       Polarizer Filter

•       Flash Diffusers and Modifiers

•       Gimbal

•       Strobe Light

•       Light Meter

•       Natural Density Filter

•       Graduated Natural Density Filter

•       Memory Cards

•       Tripod

•       Spare Batteries

•       Hood

3. In Carrying Gear we have

•       Dry Backpack

•       Camera Strap

•       Dry Cloth

There are three pillars which are considered to be the most important in making the quality of photograph excellent.

The first one is:-

1.       Shutter Speed

This feature plays an important role while taking picture. Time taken to capture a motion picture or still picture is called shutter speed. Amount of light being allowed to enter the camera depends upon shutter speed. This is being calculated by 1/ (no of seconds). The faster the shutter speed the easier it is to take photo of the subject without blur and “freeze” motion and smaller the effects would happen due to camera shake. Freezing action is one of the important part in photography which enables the look of photograph or video have a professional view. This freezing effect happens only because of the shutter speed. Furthermore, control of light in photograph is also possible due to shutter speed. 

The second pillar for excellent quality of photograph:-

2.       Aperture

This is an essential system while capturing click. Aperture is the opening of lens deciding how much light should enter through lens, which will hit the sensor to form a picture. The more is the aperture, less light will enter and more blur effect would be given. The less is the aperture, more light will enter and less blur effects would be given. Aperture is denoted by ‘f’ where ‘f’ stands for focal length (The time when the aperture will close always depends upon shutter speed). Aperture can be compared to the pupil of our eye. Pupil becomes small in bright light to allow less light whereas during dark, it becomes larger to allow much more light. Similarly, when larger the aperture, the depth of the photographs clicked is much more and there will be shadow around the picture whereas smaller the aperture, sharper the photograph clicked would be.

And the last pillar is:

3.       ISO

ISO stands for International Organization of Standardization. ISO decides the quantity of luminosity a picture should have. Better to say, ISO is camera sensor’s sensitivity to light. The lowest ISO value is 100 and it’s value extends to 3200.There are various ISO setting for different types of photography.For example:- for low light photography, ISO should be 400, for night photography, ISO should be 1600, for day-light photography, ISO should be 100-200

4.       White Balance

This is also an important function while taking pictures. It set a picture according to its weather and climatic conditions while and before clicking a picture. This includes various colour temperature which includes relative warmth and coolness of white light. It o eliminates various unrealistic colour casts from the photograph.

5.    Lens

Lens is a very important part of a camera. Lens is the only part which controls the body in such a way that the aperture is always maintained by the lens. There are various types of lens and you can choose anyone according to your area of interest like zoom lens, prime lens, telephoto lens, macro lens, wide angle lens, fisheye lens, teleconverter and extension tube lens. Lens in camera is used to focus the light in the focal length. If the camera is a film camera, then the lens are used for redirecting the light to the film strip, whereas in case of digital cameras, light is redirected to digital sensor.

Before ending, some points which need to be highlighted and should be known by every photographers from beginner to pro are as follows:

1. Amount of light a picture should have depends on ISO, how much light should enter through lens depends upon the Aperture and for how much time the light will enter depends upon the shutter speed.
2. Freezing Effect is due to Shutter Speed and Blurring effect is due to Aperture.
3. Keeping every gadgets clean and proper required for photography from camera body to lens, from various backup gadgets like tripod, spare batteries, gimbal or even backpack.
4. Lens should be handled with extreme care, and it should be kept free from dusts and dirt. regular cleaning of lens would keep the lens perfect and would not affect the quality of photograph.