How to take better pictures

We're all spoilt by autofocus, auto exposure, one-click filters, and the desire to automatically compose photos so that we can take great pictures with the shutter release. However, for a good photo, the most important thing is not the right exposure, not the focus, not even the ugly one-click filter in the app. When it comes to photos, what is important is always the conception and content, which no matter how advanced the technology is, no matter how good the camera is. It cannot bring good pictures to you.

In fact, sometimes, giving ourselves a little bit of control can stimulate our creativity and make us take better photos. The simplest may limit their method is to make another film, digital camera is very good, really good, but is too easy, convenient rather than to think we forget kaka crack press the shutter, I know many people, for many years, but don't even know the concept of exposure triangle, because digital automatic let he doesn't need to know about the basic concept of exposure.

However, when using film, we will unconsciously consider the problem of exposure. Although it is the exposure triangle, we can only control the aperture and shutter speed. In film, the speed is always fixed. The film will also unconsciously limit people's impulse to press the shutter. There are only so many rolls of film, 12/24/36. After shooting, we have to change the roll. This restriction forces us to make sure that every exposure we make is correct.

Film camera doesn't like digital cameras, each photo can be taken on the screen to see just how much, and this kind of uncertainty is the charm of film, in fact, uncertainty, mostly for the novice, accustomed to shoot the film, film, naturally about just press the shutter, you can know yourself what kind of picture. And we don't always have to go back and forth to look at the work we just shot, which also allows us to spend more time observing, thinking and shooting, so as not to let the beautiful moment slip away.

There is also manual lens, auto focus is good, but sometimes I think auto focus is not as fast as manual focus, especially in low light environment and low contrast environment, the auto focus system is difficult to judge, the use of manual focus can be more accurate focus. In addition, if your focus is on the corner of the picture, the autofocus system is prone to errors and hard to focus, so you have to adjust the focus to focus well. When I shoot with a manual lens and a mirror less camera, the combination of zooming in and peak focusing allows me to focus instantly, which is much faster and more accurate than auto focusing.

Prime and zoom, each has its own advantages, zoom lens to say the biggest advantage, may be convenient, you can include wide Angle end and long end in a lens, no need to switch back and forth lens can achieve focus segment, no need to come by zoom. But a good zoom lens is really expensive compared to a prime lens. Familiar with a focal length is very important to us, especially for filming on the streets of students, many street master all the year round all use the same focal length to filming, whether it's 28 mm, 35 mm or 50 mm, accustomed to a focal length, they don't see the viewfinder can able to know the current picture into the frame, in the form of how don't even need to focus, using hyper focal distance or regional focus, only depend on the depth of field scale can complete a shot at the waist.

In daily shooting, we can also deliberately add some restrictions for ourselves as daily exercises, such as carrying a basic PS camera with us, shooting a theme within a period of time, and only using one tone in the later period.

To increase limited primarily to help you eliminate distractions, let oneself more focused to practice in a certain aspect, it is enough to make us to their limit in the theme of the more advanced, it will also force us to creative thinking, in the limit, if the maximum play to the effectiveness of the hands of the equipment, taking pictures of something you more satisfied.