How Do I Take Care Of My Camera Lenses?
Camera care is important. Camera lenses are optical and engineering marvels. Camera lenses must be treated with care and respect when used, stored carefully and regularly maintained and cleaned. Take good care of your camera lenses, and they will take good care of you for years. There is equipment that you can get to clean and protect your lenses. There are also some simple techniques that I will tell you that will help you look after your lenses and get many years of pleasurable use out of them.
How Lenses Can Help You To Take Better Photos
Lenses on cameras give photographers options. To understand how lenses can help you take better photos, you need to know what you want to photograph, how you want to take these photos, and what you want your photos to look like. Once you know these things, you can find the lenses that work for you. Just so you know, only you can do this. Once you know what you want to do, you can look into the wonderful world of lenses.
Lenses are tools that photographers use to take the photos they need. In this episode, I tell you how I ended up with the lenses I have.
Camera Lenses Explained - My Beginner's Guide
Camera lenses attach to the front of camera bodies and focus what you are taking a photo of onto the camera sensor. You can get lenses with different focal lengths, maximum and minimum apertures, and varying sizes, weights, and quality. I will explain all these in this episode and tell you what lenses I use.
Oh yes - you can get cameras with the lens physically attached to the camera - I am not talking about those. Although most of what I talk about here applies.
Now It's Time For You To Start Taking Better Photos
Every photographer should aim to take better photos. That is what I aim to do and teach. Here are the 11 things that I talked about in episode 172.
What are you trying to do with your photography?
Composition – what you put in your photos
How to take photos – getting started
Camera gear – what to buy and how to use it
Camera settings – how to get image capture bang on
Phone or camera? Which do you use?
Learn from your photos and other photographers
Image processing – the stuff you need to know
How to save time but improve your photography
Get out and practise more – but take fewer photos
Become excellent at one photography thing
These 11 things produced 16 episodes, and there has been lots of information and good stuff if I do say so myself.
How To Find Your Photography Niche - 10 Top Tips From Me
To be the best at one photography thing, you must decide what that one photography thing is. This is how you can find your perfect photography niche.
Decide what you want photography to be to you.
Consider anything you might ever possibly want to take photos of.
Choose a few things you enjoy and are interested in.
Can these things give you what you want out of your photography?
Practise all those things until one thing pops up as the favourite
Phone vs Camera - decision time - yes, it's time
Now do that one thing to the very best of your ability
Refine your image capture technique
Refine your camera gear and settings
Refine your processing.
Get out taking photos more—but take fewer photos
Get out more and take photos, but take fewer photos. This will help you take better photos. Getting out more and taking photos gives you lots more opportunities to create new stuff. But don't try to create too much new stuff, or you will just end up with lots of average photos that you do not have the time to do anything meaningfully with.
15 Time Saving Photography Tips To Help You Take Better Photos
Here is the answery bit
Have a plan for what you are going to photograph
Only take interesting photos
Look before you take photos
If I take this photo, will I be bothered to edit it?
Camera settings for success
Less gear is more
My one-photo rule
OK – the take fewer photos rule
Portfolio swappers
Cull like a pro
Edit only what you need to
The 5-minute edit rule
Speed editing – find your sweet spot
Copy and paste
Really look at your photos and what you have created
Yes, these are all things you can do to save heaps of time and take better photos—and they don't cost you anything-what is not to love?
Photo Editing - What You Need To Know (And Not Worry About)
Photo editing should be about enhancing what is in an image, making a photo look the best that it can be, making an image as appealing as possible.
This is done by
Being very picky about which photos you edit
Extracting as much data out of an image as possible
Cropping to improve the composition
Correcting technical issues
Global adjustments
Local adjustments
Removing unwanted stuff (when it is ok to)
Not spending forever editing photos
How To Get Better At Photography By Learning From Others
So, how can you improve your photography skills? Well, one of the best ways is to learn from other photographers. Take a look at the work of photographers you admire. What is it about their photos that you like? How did they become so famous? And what about those iconic photos from history? What makes them stand out?
As you begin to analyze and interpret other photographers' work, a new world of perspectives will open up to you. This process of self-discovery and understanding will transform the way you see and capture the world through your lens.
Phone Camera vs DSLR - What Are You Missing With A Phone?
If you use a phone and not a camera, you are missing out on so much of the wonderful world of photography.
The taking photos with a camera experience
Time and enjoyment
Composition
The viewfinder
Image quality
Consistency
Cameras
Lenses
Camera settings
The simple self-timer
Tripods
The other accessories that help us.
Phone vs. Camera: Which Is Better To Take Photos With?
Cameras are, of course, designed to take high-quality photos. And phone cameras have improved so much that they are a credible alternative to cameras. But which is better to take photos with? A digital camera or a phone? Is one better than the other? Or is there a place for both?
How To Use Your Camera Settings To Take Better Photos
There are many settings that we can change in cameras and lenses, too. These settings will change depending on what you are taking a photo of and the ambient light levels. With the correct camera settings, we can take better photos. That is why our cameras have all those settings, after all!
Photography Gear - How Cameras, Lenses and Other Stuff Help
Photography is drawing with light, and photography gear is simply the tools we use to capture that light and take photos. Photography gear can help us create higher-quality, better-composed photos. And that is it. It is that simple. Buy the best camera and lens you need and can afford, and learn how to use them properly.
Photography Gear – What To Buy And How To Use It
Get the photography gear that you need. Only get more photography gear if
The gear will help you take better photos
The gear will help you to take photos that you cannot get with your gear
The gear will save you time or money
Or
The gear you have is broken/ worn out/ about to fail.
There – that is gear sorted.
Photography Tips - How To Actually Take A Photo
This is how to take a photo
Choose your composition carefully
Check your camera settings
Decide where you are going to focus
Take a meter reading
If all is good, get yourself steady
Hold the camera correctly
Breathe in
Breathe out slowly
Gently roll your finger over the shutter button, focus, meter, and take the photo.
And relax!
Check what you have got.
And hopefully, move on!
Tips For How To Take Better Photos – Getting Started
Before you take a photo, be clear about what you are taking a photo of. Make sure that the camera settings are correct technically and that they are right for the subject. Think about what you are doing and make sure that you are in the best position for the photo that you are taking. Raise your camera to your eye, look carefully at what you can see in the viewfinder, and take one photo.
Stop and review what you have captured. Look at the photo critically. Ask yourself these questions.
Do you like the photo?
Is the composition pleasing?
Is the photo technically correct?
Can you take a better photo than this one?
Can you be bothered to spend ages editing the photo?
What do you not like about the photo?
And finally, why would anyone other than you be remotely interested in this photo?
How To Use Your Gear To Improve Your Compositions
You can change your compositions by using different camera settings and gear in different ways. Camera bodies and lenses allow you to change what you can capture, and changing camera settings can change how you capture a composition.
So, if you were wondering why there are so many camera settings and so many different bits of gear, read on.
Photography Composition Tips and Techniques
You can change your compositions by using different camera settings and gear in different ways. Camera bodies and lenses allow you to change what you can capture, and changing camera settings can change how you capture a composition.
So, if you were wondering why there are so many camera settings and so many different bits of gear, read on.
What Are You Trying To Do With Your Photography?
What Are You Trying To Do With Your Photography? What are your hopes and dreams? Are you happy as you are taking photos with your phone? Or do you want to be a professional photographer and earn a full-time living from your photography? Those are the two ends of the scale; you and I are in there somewhere. We need to find out where you are and where you want to get to.
This is a great place to start and a great introduction to the series of episodes about how to take better photos. After all, you need to know where you are going so you know what you need to do. One of my favourite sayings is this - start with the end in mind.
How To Take Better Photos - Part 1 - 11 Things For You To Do
Here are 11 things you can work on to help you take better photos, whatever your current level. And I include myself in this.
What are you trying to do with your photography?
Composition – what you put in your photos
How to take photos – getting started
Camera gear – what to buy and how to use it
Camera settings – how to get image capture bang on
Phone or camera? Which do you use?
Learn from your photos and other photographers
Image processing – the stuff you need to know
How to save time but improve your photography
Get out and practise more – but take less photos
Become excellent at one photography thing