hi everyone today we're gonna talk about the three biggest mistakes that beginner
photographers make so let's get right into it the first mistake I see all the
time is when beginner photographers digitally zoom so if you're using a cell
phone digital zoom is when you're putting your
fingers together like this and then you're spreading apart to zoom into an
image whenever you do that you're digitally zooming so you never want to
go like this on your cell phone I don't say never but try to actually walk
closer to the subject rather than doing this thing on your cell phone what
happens is as you go like that and you and it gets closer you're actually
cropping into the image and you're degrading the image you're making it
worse than it really was you're taking a big file and then you're making it much
smaller so it's not gonna the resolution the quality is not gonna be as good now
on some cell phones and on most cameras especially DSLR cameras there's a thing
called optical zoom and that's just when you just take your normal lens and you
zoom in zoom out that will not degrade the image you still have the same
quality but you're not affecting the image resolution so always optically
zoom never a digital zoom so whenever you look at a camera it says digital
zoom you know that's not good you only want optical zoom so don't
digital zoom the next mistake I see photographers do all the time is use
cheap lenses you'd never want to use cheap lenses often I'll see
photographers spend all their money for most of their money on an expensive
camera and then they'll buy a cheap lens and you actually want to do the opposite
you want to try to buy the cheapest camera or the least expensive camera
that you can buy and then buy the more expensive lens so expensive lens or good
glass will last you a long time because it's essentially the
technology doesn't change that fast it changes much slower so that that the
lens will last you a long time whereas a camera will become obsolete very quickly
now a good lens you may be saying okay what's a good glass what's a good lens
right it doesn't matter about sighs that's one misconception so this lens
right here is a Nikon 50 millimeter one point four lens and it's really really
small right now just because it's small doesn't mean it's a bad lens this lens a
fact is a really good lens because it has good glass and it's also a prime
lens so anytime you have a lens that has a fixed aperture or something like this
that says 1 : 1.4 right anytime you see something like that it's gonna be a good
lens if it says one number like 3.5 - 5.6 you know it's a cheap lens it's not
as good a lens so it should only have one aperture number okay another way to
know that you have a good lens is it only has a fixed focal length so this
one only shoots at 50 millimeters you can't zoom in or zoom out now you may
say hey that's a limitation my eye can't zoom in or zoom out with this lens
however it's gonna be you're gonna get much better and sharper image quality
this is something I see all the time you see the flash on top of the camera
mounted right on to the camera this is the worst possible place you could put a
flash now so many people do it so you probably think oh how can that be so bad
well actually learning off camera flash is the best thing so whenever you have a
flash right on the camera it's gonna be the least flattering image quality in
terms of lighting you instead you want to take this light off
you get it off you wanna take the light off and you want to shoot with the light
somewhere else anywhere but right here is gonna give you much better image
quality much better lighting okay so if you if you want to learn lighting which
is which is quite difficult especially when you're starting out you can go to
my website brett caramel accom and there i have a lot of tutorials about how to
step up your lighting game and all the nuances and techniques of lighting
because I know it can be a daunting task it took me a couple years to really get
good at lighting and when I started out I had no clue and I used to do this all
the time because I saw everyone else doing it so I thought that was the best
way when in fact it was actually the worst possible way to use a flash I hope
you got some value out of these tips and they help you speed up your learning
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that's gonna take your photography game to intermediate and advanced faster than
any other skill is learning off-camera flash so go do it