10 things to know about learning photography

10 things to know about learning photography

1. There is nothing like taking your camera outside or indoors and snapping away to what results you get, Understanding the functions and settings of your camera is KEY to successfully creating the images you want.

2. Reading the camera manual is a good place to start as well. If you stuck on some aspects of your camera, for example F/ stops, ISO, White balance and so on.

3. Find the style of Photography that you like, by looking around on the internet or magazines looking at the images that you really like and understanding how these images where taken and how the look was achieved.

3. Finding a great internet source, by looking around on Youtube, or photography websites can be a massive help in learning techniques, styles, and how to do it instructional videos as well as seeing first hand how it’s done.

4. Joining a camera club, can be a great way to learn with others, with demos, and by simply talking to other camera enthusiasts, can be a great way of learning.

5. Workshops, a lot of photographers provide workshop training this can be one on one training or in groups, another great way to learn in the field from beginner to intermediate right through to advanced skills.

6. Entering contests is another good way to learn photography as it is a confidence booster and can provide critique and feedback about your work which is always important.

7. Asking the your family and friends to rate or judge your images is a great idea, once they have finished judging them ask them why they placed your images in the order they selected you may be surprised at the results, this can be similar to wedding photography as your favourite images are never normally the same as what the Bride and Groom select.

8. Try to learn at least one photo technique at least once a week this way your learning skills will improve at a faster rate.

9. Be dedicated if you truly want to learn photography be committed and dedicated to it helps massively, by following the steps above will help to contribute to furthering the knowledge of your photography.

10. Learning photoshop or lightroom or both is the final step in the learning process before the more advanced learning begins, as a very large percentage of images today are edited to a industry standard, so learning editing skills is very important in having your images showcased, whether your selling your images or photographing weddings etc. Learning Photoshop and or Lightroom can take a good few months, in order to learn this process watching learning how to do it videos on youtube is the perfect way to self learn yourself.