The Seven Essential Elements for Improving Your Photos
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- 12 Apr 2023
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There are different opinions about what makes good photography. Many suggest it’s a single ingredient; they are wrong. If we want to grow in our art, it’s by combining seven elements that we have any hope of improving.
I have yet to meet a successful photographer who doesn’t want to improve. Consequently, we writers often create articles about aspects of photography to help us to get better. Inevitably, someone will read it and misunderstand an article’s intention. With steam emanating from under their collar, they will rant and deny that it has anything to do with good photography and that something else is the sole component of a good photo.
However, these articles are rarely prescriptive, and what they are suggesting is just a single component that, combined with other factors, helps us to get better at what we do.
If you think that one aspect of photography is of no importance, or that another outweighs everything else, then you are, of course, entitled to that opinion. But it might not be true for other photographers. The beauty of any art is that we can approach its creation in so many different and unique ways and apply our unique subjective judgments when we view it. Here are seven major areas that make a difference to our images.
Choosing the Correct Camera
I am going to start with what is probably the most controversial topic. I can already hear lots of people screaming that it doesn’t matter what camera you use. “The best camera is the one you’ve got with you!” Meanwhile, others will be jumping up and down insisting that unless you shoot with a (insert brand here) full frame camera, you are not a serious photographer. They are both extremes, and neither is correct.
Every camera has its own unique features.
Most camera brands are quite different from each other. They all feel different in your hands, and the menus vary. The images they produce are not the same, either.
There are two questions you should ask yourself when choosing a camera, and there is no right or wrong answer to these. Firstly, do you want to take photos that look like those that most people shoot? If so, your choice is likely to be one of the bigger brands, Read More…
