Beginner's Luck

Hello everyone. It’s been a long time since I took a break from blogging. Glad I am back again on to this platform to share a few things with you. 

Photography has always been my passion. I gave a strong thought of pursuing it as a career many times, but I am sure I don’t want to pursue my career in photography. At least not now. A career in photography is very beautiful and mesmerising. Do not stop yourself if you want to do that. Just click millions of pictures every day and someday you will be able to freeze time.

Today's Blog

So today's blog is all about beginner’s luck. In simple words, we will speak a little about manual and automatic photography. In today's generation, with the leap in technology, cameras have took a giant leap in technology. We can see the latest achievements in mobile cameras. Mobile cameras can do a lot of things these days, from detecting the scene to manually adjusting everything.

Generally, when people start photography, they begin with automatic mode. It takes some time for the photographer to understand the physical components of the camera in usage. Meanwhile one can learn and how to choose angles, perspective etc.., 

While clicking photographs, the two most important things are subject and background. One needs to balance his focus on the subject and choose the perspective of the background wisely. The distance between subject and background can vary up to any lengths.

Let us now dive in and get some deep insights on our topic for today.

Journey from Full Auto to Full Manual

Many people in this world are passionate about photography. That can be mobile photography or DSLR photography. Every Professional photographer in this world has come up learning to use the automatic mode only.

So the basic parameters of a camera are,

1.      Shutter speed

2.      ISO

3.      White balance

4.      Aperture

So, now let us speak of these parameters individually.

Shutter speed: Shutter speed is basically the amount of time your image sensor is exposed to light. It works exactly like your pupil. When you are in bright sunlight, your pupils don’t dilate much. When you are in complete darkness, your pupil is completely open. Likewise shutter speed also works in cameras. 

Shutter of a DSLR camera

This is how shutter speed works in the camera. The longer you allow light into the sensor, the longer it takes to capture the image.

ISO: ISO is slightly similar to shutter speed but not exactly same. ISO is the sensitivity the Image sensor to light. Higher the ISO, more exposed the image is. Personally, if you are using a mobile camera to shoot in low light conditions, higher ISO results in lot of noise. But a higher ISO is an ideal setting for astrophotography.

So, as I mentioned, a higher ISO results in higher noise

White Balance: White balance is the temperature of the image. Yes, you read it right. Image also has a temperature. Images range from cool to warm. Mostly you can leave the white balance to automatic because, noticing a difference in white balance in single degree is impossible. Therefore you can leave white balance to automatic.

Aperture: Aperture of a camera can be considered as the diameter of the shutter. The higher the aperture, more incoming light to the image.

So we have focused on a few parameters today. I hope you have gained some knowledge. Any queries will be answered in the comment section. So, until next time keep capturing😉😉😉