I am thinking of getting into photography myself, and was wondering if there was any good sites that are easy to understand, or if anyone here could give some advice on taking pictures. Thank-you for your time!
2007-11-01 16:33:38 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
Since you asked for sites, here are a few:
http://www.popphoto.com/howto/
links to many tutorials
http://www.betterphoto.com
http://www.bythom.com
http://www.digitalcamerabasics.com/
It is best to have someone teach you so you will not be stumbling around in the dark. Look for a course at a community college or tech ed center or join a photography club.
2007-11-01 16:42:27 · answer #1 · answered by Picture Taker 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Like any other art form, photography is part inspiration and part perspiration. Take a photography class at your local community college. Learn the craft.
Seek out a mentor, someone with many years of experience in photography. Ask questions.
Start a collection of photographs (your own or by others) that inspire you. Begin to look at them with a critical eye. What elements inspire you?
The first and best lesson is the word itself, "photograph". From the Greek meaning "light-picture". No light, no picture. Poor light, poor picture.
Get started now. Go get your camera and take pictures. Keep it with you all the time. It's the same technique that a writer uses when she keeps a journal. Take a hundred pictures a day. You can only learn by doing.
2007-11-01 17:06:29 · answer #2 · answered by WESS LB 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wess has the best advice, get a camera and take pictures...NOW. Take lots of pictures, shoot things you would not think of shooting, like a fire hydrant, then come back at another time of day and shoot it again. See the differnces in the quality of the light and how it affects the mood and overall picture. Digital photography is very inexpensive now since you can download your pictures and not worry about film cost. get a decent single lens reflex camera with interchangable lenses. Alos do not use the auto settings very much. You will learn faster by setting it on manual; then you'll have to think about what you are doing to make a picture. After a while, you won't need to think, you'll just shoot. Good luck, you'll have a blast.
2007-11-02 09:07:11 · answer #3 · answered by Kelly P 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enroll in a photography class. If there aren't any available locally, consider the New York Institute of Photography (nyip.com). They offer correspondence courses and have been in business since 1910.
Learn about light, composition, f-stops, shutter speeds and ISO using a 35mm film camera.
Learn to think about each scene before you release the shutter.
Learn how to "see photographically" instead of just randomly shooting and hoping you'll get a few pictures worth keeping.
Learn to "get it right in the camera" so you don't spend hours with an editing program trying to turn a mediocre picture into an average one.
Study the works of the early photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Dorothea Lange, Paul Strand, W. Eugene Smith.
Read at least one photography magazine each month. Visit your library and see which ones they have and choose one you like. Subscribe to it.
Buy a copy of "Object & Image: An Introduction to Photography, Third Edition" by George M. Craven.
Good luck and welcome to the fascinating, frustrating world of photography.
2007-11-01 22:23:19 · answer #4 · answered by EDWIN 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
dpreview.com
photo.net
pcphotomag.com
betterphoto.com
kenrockwell.com
There are so many. Read, ask questions, and take pictures. As you learn more about the terms and what the different parts of the camera the easier it will be to play around with it. Thats how I learned alot of what I know. Have fun!
2007-11-01 16:45:06 · answer #5 · answered by CoolPhotoMan 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
ok you have some sites now i will give you a quote -
Great images are not "taken, they are "made".
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2007-11-01 17:14:08 · answer #6 · answered by Antoni 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋