Hello everyone, after a long gap of writing I thought to share some knowledge I could gain about one thing I see everywhere, PHOTOS. Due to the cheap cameras available and the camera enabled mobile phones almost everyone have atleast one camera to click friends and family. I would like to help them take a better photo because most of the time we dont fully use the capability of the device we are holding.
After reading/searching/talking to many starting photographers and more from my personal experience, I realized the most important thing is to learn about FOCUS. I know most experienced people would say it's Aperture, Shutter Speed & ISO but how many of us have advanced cameras to do that. But focus is one thing which is present in almost all cameras and many mobile cams.
Simply put forward, any photo capturing device can focus only at a fixed distance, that would mean you can take only one thing super sharp and other items will be blurred. More the distance from the focus point, less sharper they will become. Most of the time we just point to the scene, frame it and then click it and leave the decision of focus to the camera. But frankly it's you who knows what is important and what is not because you CAN NOT take everything in focus. So you should be telling camera what to focus and good news is, you can in most of the cameras.
Before going to the actual method of focusing I thought to share a photograph which is difficult to get in auto focusing mode.
These types of pics are very common for advanced cameras but frankly now a days normal cameras (Point & Shoot) are having very nice MACRO mode using which you can get similar results.
Here are the photographes taken by my friend Vaibhav Kumbhare to depict this
This is very common when a person is standing in front of distant background and the person's face is not very sharp or the background seems sharper than the person.
Now that you know the importance of correct focus, second question arises, how do I focus on what I want. Almost all cameras have a small box in the camera screen (usually in center) and DSLR users have focus points while using view finder. Mobile users can focus (if have manual focus feature) by a simple touch in most of the smartphones and camera users can focus by half pressing the shutter release button (button which click photos) and waiting till the box turns green. Box turning green means your focus is locked and now you can frame the scene without leaving the button. Once satisfied with the frame press the button completely and thats it.
To list down the steps once more,
1 - Keep subject in box
2 - Half press the button to lock focus
3 - Frame the photo as you want
4 - Press the button completely
This might not make a big difference if you are viewing the photos on a mobile or camera screen but when it comes to printing or viewing them on large screens the difference would be clearly visible.
Here is another example of proper focusing.
Please share your valuable thoughts, ideas, sample photos and more than anything, suggestions to improve this text.
After reading/searching/talking to many starting photographers and more from my personal experience, I realized the most important thing is to learn about FOCUS. I know most experienced people would say it's Aperture, Shutter Speed & ISO but how many of us have advanced cameras to do that. But focus is one thing which is present in almost all cameras and many mobile cams.
Simply put forward, any photo capturing device can focus only at a fixed distance, that would mean you can take only one thing super sharp and other items will be blurred. More the distance from the focus point, less sharper they will become. Most of the time we just point to the scene, frame it and then click it and leave the decision of focus to the camera. But frankly it's you who knows what is important and what is not because you CAN NOT take everything in focus. So you should be telling camera what to focus and good news is, you can in most of the cameras.
Before going to the actual method of focusing I thought to share a photograph which is difficult to get in auto focusing mode.
These types of pics are very common for advanced cameras but frankly now a days normal cameras (Point & Shoot) are having very nice MACRO mode using which you can get similar results.
Here are the photographes taken by my friend Vaibhav Kumbhare to depict this
This is very common when a person is standing in front of distant background and the person's face is not very sharp or the background seems sharper than the person.
Now that you know the importance of correct focus, second question arises, how do I focus on what I want. Almost all cameras have a small box in the camera screen (usually in center) and DSLR users have focus points while using view finder. Mobile users can focus (if have manual focus feature) by a simple touch in most of the smartphones and camera users can focus by half pressing the shutter release button (button which click photos) and waiting till the box turns green. Box turning green means your focus is locked and now you can frame the scene without leaving the button. Once satisfied with the frame press the button completely and thats it.
To list down the steps once more,
1 - Keep subject in box
2 - Half press the button to lock focus
3 - Frame the photo as you want
4 - Press the button completely
This might not make a big difference if you are viewing the photos on a mobile or camera screen but when it comes to printing or viewing them on large screens the difference would be clearly visible.
Here is another example of proper focusing.
Please share your valuable thoughts, ideas, sample photos and more than anything, suggestions to improve this text.
