Competent Professional Photographer Or Beginner Tips

This article is designed to protect the photographer from possible mistakes at the beginning of his career, regardless of whether the reader of this article is a professional photographer or enthusiastic amateur photographer. To make things easier, the article is divided into specific tips.

Council first. The more practice, the better.
The first thing that a novice professional photographer should master is the fact that in order to improve one's skills one must photograph, photograph and take pictures again. And the more, the better. The more a photographer practices, the faster he will succeed.

Council of the second. Preparation is the key to success.
Despite the fact that it is necessary to photograph a lot, this does not mean that it is unthinkable. In this case, there is no success in photography. In short, if you photograph a lot, then it is necessary to do it literally - with the mind.

To photograph with a mind, a professional photographer must decide on the subject of photography: a studio photographer, a wedding photographer or a photographer for a corporate. This will allow you to achieve considerable success in the chosen subject and not to take pictures lightly.

Depending on the chosen subject of photography, you should acquire the necessary photographic equipment and attributes to it. For example, if you intend to be a report photographer or photographer for corporate, then you need a quick-fire camera and a series of high-aperture lenses with a zoom and a wide viewing angle, as well as a flash camera flash. If you plan to do landscape photography, then a lens with a wide viewing angle is simply necessary together with a polarizing or gradient filter.

The third council. Less fuss.
Vanity is the scourge that almost every novice professional photographer suffers. As soon as a fussy photographer sees an interesting plan for photography, he presses the trigger button with the speed of the jet engine , and then turns on the afterburner and rushes in search of the next interesting frame.

Moreover, the most frightening, fussy beginner in the field of photography absolutely does not care about the correctly chosen point of photography and the adjustment of photographic equipment. The result is not a frame, but a pshik. Therefore, in order to create really decent and beautiful photos, you should not fuss.

However, it is psychologically difficult for a newcomer to work without haste. I want to create, create and create again and as soon as possible. However, to restructure and start shooting in a different way - without haste - it's quite simple. There is one absolutely magical and miraculous tool that allows you to remove haste and plunge into reflections on exposure, aperture and the point of photography.

This magic tool is called a tripod. A beginner, if possible, should use it even if it is absolutely not required. This will change the reactive rhythm of photography.

The fourth advice. Copying of photography techniques.
A very good way to improve your photos is a tool taken from painting. The tool is an attempt to copy the work of the author. I mean, the author takes a picture of the master and tries to repeat it on his own. After this procedure, he analyzes - why his masterpiece is different from the master masterpiece. The same technique can be used in photography. Very effective.

The fifth advice. Analysis is the key to success.
The analysis of the captured photos is the guarantee of the success of the beginning professional photographer. If a novice professional photographer heeded the first advice, then the analysis of photos will become much easier.

A modern digital camera, creating a snapshot, leaves in its metadata all the information about camera settings at the time of photographing. Therefore, having spread out the photos in front of you and knowing the characteristics of photographing each photo, you can conduct a fairly successful analysis of pictures and improve your art.

I hope that these tips will help the beginner in the field of photography. Sincerely yours, professional photographer Leonid Starikov.