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michael wong asked:




When it comes to photography, everyone wishes to get the perfect shot for their picture. However, things often go beyond what you want. Luckily with the presence of digital photography, you have more control over your picture. At least now you can look at your picture immediately on the LCD screen to see whether you are satisfied with your shot.

Indoor and outdoor

Imagine that you are taking picture of a birthday girl blowing the candle. Often the candles are your only light source. When this happens, you will want to increase the ISO setting and slow down the shutter speed (if you are using a compact digital camera, this will be done automatically) of your camera so that more light can be pass into the camera.

However, when you slow down the shutter speed, your camera is more sensitive to movement and there will be high chances that your pictures will appear ‘shaken’. To avoid that, you can either turn on the flash or mount your camera on a tripod. And if your camera comes with the anti-handshake feature, remember to turn that on when you are shooting under low light condition.

When you are taking picture outdoor in a bright sunny day, you can keep the setting as normal and your picture will still look good. The only thing you need to remember is to never shoot your picture with the sun in front of you as that will make your subject looks dark.

Glare

Beside that, your picture will be very glaring when you put the sun in front of your camera. It is like looking into a big spotlight.

Sometimes you can also see this glaring problem when your subject reflects off the flash. Imagine that you flashed on a recently polished silver spoon. The flash will bounce back from the silver surface creating glare in your picture. What you can do is to either disperse your flash or step further from your subject and zoom in to it.

Framing

Framing is how you make the composition for your shot. When you are framing your picture, work your way without chopping any part of your subject. When you see that you can’t fit your subject into the frame, just take a few steps back or simply use a wide angle lens.

And when you are shooting with background that you can’t exclude, you can remove it later with software for photo editing or you can create shallow depth of field and blurred the background.

Alex W.K. asked:




You can learn digital photography from a school or an online course but the truth is that not many photography courses are met to their standard. The course which they are offering are legitimate but are not designed by real professional photographer. This article will show you how to learn digital photography from a quality photography course online.

Reliable information is the most crucial source to get the correct detail. If you enroll with a low quality photography school you would end up not becoming success because the information you received was not reliable and did not have the actual accurate detail. It is important that you should learn digital photography from a more reliable source. A few photography courses online are reliable and have the quality curriculum which are designed by expert photographers.

You can do a search on the search engine regarding the course or school name and look for the feedback on a forums or blogs which are left by the student. Those who have enrolled in the course may provide feedback or comment on a forum, sometime there are some complaining about the course that they are taking which excluded what they need to learn. Some photography websites have a forum installed which contains unbiased reviews of certain course. You should do your homework before decide to participate with any online photography course.



Nowadays, there are many photography courses being offer online and offline. You should do your research before anticipate with the program unless you know what curriculum are being provided and who designed and owned the course. If you cannot find this information on their website, I suggest you to forget about it.

Alex W.K. asked:




Learn photography and become a successful photographer may require creativity and strive but not talent. Many photographers are not born talented. Anyone who has the love of photography can become a successful one. It does take time and effort to learn photography but the reward is significant. Not many are willing to spend their effort to learn photography, some may quit and other switch to other school for easy advancing. Let me tell you the truth there is no such thing as learn photography with no effort. In order to become successful it does require ‘strive’.

Many people are looking into the field of photography due to it significant potential and job opportunity. People who are born talented or have love of photography will find the learning enjoyable. Those who are expecting to get a job in this field will surely quit sooner since they are not really interested in the subject. To be a successful photographer is not difficult, the course is not too harsh for any amateur to get into. A real successful photographer does require creativity and effort without those you would not become very successful even though you have the talent.

‘Quality’ work is hard to produce compares to work in ‘quantity’. In fact that many misunderstand that ‘quantity’ could lead to successful and brand building but this is not entire true, quality is the winning term to success.

In order to become a successful photographer you would need to take your first step in learning photography if you are a beginner. As for experienced photographer, it would require creativity and innovation. Learning and improving your work are the real keys to success.