Understanding your camera’s features and proper usage is one key that leads to capturing better images.

Photography is one of the most in-demand hobbies nowadays because it gives everyone the opportunity to capture the best moment of their life, in the most creative ways. That’s the reason cameras become everyone’s best friend, another reason is they can be cheap as well. No matter what the events they’re celebrating or where they go, they all have their cameras with them.

7 Things To Understand About Your Camera For Better Images

Some may believe that the quality of a photo lies on the quality of the camera. It’s not always true. A camera is just a helping tool, the one that makes a great photo is still the person behind that camera. For them to do that successfully, they must understand their camera’s features and proper usage.

• A better understanding of your camera allows you to control and manipulate light

Proper lighting is one important factor. Without it, you will capture nothing but pure darkness. Knowing how to control and manipulate light properly using your camera is an assurance that you’ll capture only the finest texture, vibrancy of color and brightness on your subjects.

• A better understanding of your camera allows you to control blur and perfecting exposure

No one likes a blurry and poorly exposed photo. That’s why it’s important to know two of the elements that are important to get a good photo – get the shutter speed right on your camera and having a steady hand.

Shutter speed determines how fast or slows the shutter opens and closes. The fastest the shutter speed the more you can completely freeze the action of your subjects. While the slowest the shutter speed the more you can create a motion blur effect on your photo. But it doesn’t mean that slow shutter speed isn’t good. It has its advantage in photographing landscapes, objects in dim environments and lightning.

Setting the shutter speed right, check. Now you must accompany it with the right camera holding technique. The steadier the camera focused on your subject, the better the photograph will be. But don’t worry if you don’t have steady hands just adjust your camera to a faster shutter speed to avoid camera shake or motion blurs.

• A better understanding of your camera helps you capture beautifully-sharp focus images

Everyone – professional or not – always aim to capture beautifully-sharp images. This can be done by knowing when is the best time to use the manual and auto-focus modes of your camera.  Auto-focus is great in photographing portraits, sports and so on. But there are things that only manual focus can do. You can easily manipulate your subjects’ lighting and create more effects in manual focus, even they’re in a dim environment. You can do this by adjusting the focus ring of the camera until it reaches the details sharpen, and to your liking as well.

• A better understanding of your camera allows you to decide how much of the image is in focus

Every angles and movement of your subject creates different amazing effects on the photos. And the result will be twice as beautiful if you add a dramatic blurred effect on the background by adjusting your aperture settings.

Aperture is one of the cameras’ settings that some people find difficult to understand. But truth is, it’s quite simple. Two types of it are called “narrow aperture” and “wider aperture”. Narrow aperture is good for photographing the landscape. But if you’ll photograph a certain subject and you want everything that surrounds it to be a blur in a good way, use wider aperture because it let more light in with each exposure.

• A better understanding of your camera allows you to capture better color

Color is the life of a photo. Without or too much of it could make photos look unrealistic and unpleasant to look at. That’s the reason it’s important to adjust the color setting of your camera every time you’ll use it to maintain color balance. Your color setting should depend on the effect you wanted to achieve and the environment’s lighting.

• A better understanding of your camera gives you an opportunity to capture sharp photos

A photo is a piece of one’s memory and everyone wants to make it livelier and realistic-looking. And it’s all possible by knowing your camera’s lenses types. There are actually 4 types of lenses: the wide-angle lens which can make a photo look spherical and can distort space, standard lens is close to how human eye sees the space or environment, medium lens range from 60-100mm and its usage depends if you have zoom or prime lenses and lastly, telephoto lens, it’s best in magnifying objects at a far distance.

• And lastly, a better understanding of your camera unleashes your inner creativity

Once you know everything about your camera, you can start experimenting on your own. This is the most exciting part because you now have no limitations. You can do everything you please – use one effect to another, mix and match the color and so on – and still get the result you wanted.

Now that you understand your camera well, go out there and have fun! The best photo of your life is still out there waiting to be captured.

 

Author Bio –

Hi, I’m George. I have been a camera enthusiast from 2008. Cameraseals is my personal blog where I share most of my interests and experiences from using cameras.

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