Basic Training For Learning Digital Photography!
The key to learning digital photography is a comparatively uncomplicated one…you just need to comprehend that it is basically identical to as film photography. When you truly get that – the rest is usually a snap.
You can find just two main differences among them…
First: There is a distinction in the way light is recorded. Nowadays we utilize a digital sensor where historically light was captured on film.
Second: We end up with our images stored on a digital memory stick in lieu of film. So this makes it viable to view our photos immediately in lieu of awaiting the local one hour lab to process and print our shots. We just down load the pictures from your memory stick and into our computer.
The traditionalists among us feel that film still creates a better image, but with all of the recent scientific advances in digital – only the most discerning eye can tell the difference. And only then if it is enlarged to a massive size.
So when you come right down to it, in learning digital photography we still should follow the basic steps we have always followed:
Learn how the shutter speed influences our pictures and when to try a fast one or a slow one to reach our creative goals.
Next we need to know the f-stop settings and how they artistically affect our photos.
Once these requisites are under our belts, then it is time to study light and how to control it to turn a drab unattractive setting into one that provides the jaw dropping “wow” aspect into our photos.
Toss in some learning of and practicing the varied poses and then we have all the skills we require to shoot outstanding pictures – whether film or digital.
At this point in our evolution, we see the biggest advantage of digital over film photography…ease in manipulation.
Retouching and image manipulation is a crucial part of the creative procedure and digital makes this easy for everyone! It used to be really hard to make changes and retouches on film but currently, a few minutes in any basic photography editing program – and then we can ALL seem like pros.
So the key to learning digital photography isn’t being too concerned with the fact that it’s digital – it’s just a storage medium – learn the basics of good photography techniques and you will do well.