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It's a bit like riding a bike, The fastest way to learn how to ride your bicycle,
is to get on your bicycle and start riding it!
It's just the same thing, You need to get your camera out of its bag, and start taking pictures.
The thing is light and composition they are the key elements to great photos
the technical stuff can come later those are things which can enhance what your doing
they're not the key to the great images
It's your interpretation of light, so I would urge you to go out
find the keys your cupboard, as I'm trying to find the ones to my shed
get your camera out and go practice it
You may need to take a lot for pictures, that's fine!
The thing is not to do is stand there and go 'click!' that didn't work
'Click!' that didn't work
Because the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again
and expecting a different result, If it doesn't work think about it!
Think well that doesn't look very good! Maybe if use this bicycle as a bit of foreground and shoot it from here...
maybe it'll look a bit better. The fastest way to learn how to take better pictures
is to get out and shoot as many as you can and do it on your own give yourself time alone to practice this
because sometimes you gonna take a lot of time over an image
and if your with someone else, you will probably drive them nuts
The thing is with all those bits and pieces you find buried away inside the main news have your camera
I'm convinced that most the time you don't necessarily need
I was talking to a very good photographer friend Amanda wanna go
she was so saying that she's never been in a camera menu ever
because once the cameras been set up everything else is there is on the
outside this course depends on what sort of camera you
goal some controls on deep within the various
settings as the menu and some things on the menu all
very useful and can hot Canon haunts your photography
if you'll find out all the things that go on in my gorgeous love the sexy ex
are home to the I really enjoy going out
muddy and falling off and injuring myself with the moment for me to do it
this thing I have to look
in the handbook to find out what all the different things do
for will find out how to clean the carb wrestle how to do something on my bike
good-looking hambre I'm really really sorry
that's the only way you can do it yourself with your camera
also all cameras different so
what is so in one Nick on camera in the menu will probe a completely different
in another mobile the same camera when you start cross
integrating between say cannons and sickness and Nikon's and Pentax Olympus
that organ have really totally different menus so we can just tell you
what it would be because I'd have to know intimately
the electrons have every single camera ever made
I'm really sorry I know you possibly don't like this
the any way to find out what's in your menu is to get you book now
read through the menu section and then try each one
this is Matt dedicating some other time once again
to your photography the exposure you say
is not dependent upon the subject matter that you're shooting
so what expose you need for photographing a racing car or bicycle or
child playing on the beach
it's about the light those things in is not about what the subject
is unita start thinking about
light as in quality of life rather than quantity of light
soap for example right now little the video camera exposed for me because I'm
here in my man then with all my bits and pieces motorbikes and stuff
but out here as you can see it with his point to the dole
is much much brighter isn't it circular exposes
for the dole then now you can see what's going on outside the icon really really
dark
say have to expose for wherever is
to subject matter happens to be the light the they are in
show you the more about this soap
Anita confused quantity with quality
so lets his guy aside from out
not coming here the owners had to change the exposure
for me because I'm now in much much brighter light but I've gone blue
haven't I
and the reasonable Louis greens or to the colors because on now and Dane I and
we weren't balance to the
fluorescent lights today in my shared don't confuse white balance with
exposure now lotsa people do this but they don't the two completely separate
things
so let's just remove this white balance kinder than
issue by making everything black and white
right now when you look at the like this on my face
I got a little bit shadow going on condom around here somewhere I'm
guessing on my face really look at my face
than just a router is might look at what the lights take up a slightly darker
area on my face around here
and the reason I have that target area is because the brim with my hat is
costing a bit to the shadow
even though it's a towel died the light is falling downwards onto my face and
that's where the shadow is coming from
so if you want to remove shadow we need to change the characteristics at the
light
and that's really easy to do here because if I start walking backwards
and going into the shed then the current touristic said the light have changed
we know haven't got any down light because there's a roof all the launch is
coming forwards
and that Shadow has disappeared but loan has had to change her exposure
to compensate for the fact there is less like in here
little light doesn't mean bad like you need to look at the quality of the light
so this is go back into color mode for a moment
whatever it is that you're photographing you need to expose for that subject
then it's your shooting a landscape the chances over the landscape you're going
to want to use a small
aperture but that's because the small apt to get you a lot of sharpness
lot of debt the failed you not choosing a small aperture
for exposure reason you choosing it for creative reason
fishing a portray the chances are you will to shallow depth of you to all the
background to be slightly blurry so you can really concentrate on the person you
shooting the port ranks
of again it's a creative recent have a big aperture
is not an exposure reading you using and she created a new city or exposure
by using it to your shutter speed we'll I so or combinations at the two together
to ensure you don't get camera-shy
so the correct exposure forgiven jewelry for a given subject matter
is more about the light that they're in it's not about the subject matter
in I'm sorry you can't
it's a fact of life some dust is gonna enter into your camera at some point
even if you never take the lens of some dust will leave his way
into your camera and get onto the sensor there is nothing in this world
you can do about it apart from keep your but your camera
in a seal plastic bag and never take it out
it's just one of those things
something you can do is to keep your camera bag who've it out mistakenly at
in Hoover at you camera bag every so often the vacuum cleaner
because even just dust in the camera back to work its way into your camera
but months today is kinda common sense
so for example let's say we're standing in the shade hand on a little sweet not
because the price is a bit of a mess
and I still think you wanna take a nice picture a bit in my motorbike here
now just as I to pick up my camera notice I have a
a camera substitute hit so I picked up my camera and I'm already on think unity
that and I think well
you know I need a different lens on help just as on thinking that very thought
there's a
gusty winds and my partner cut which I just
happily swept up guys like this straight up into the air
fright there's dust in the air it's everywhere it's on like her is gone
everywhere right
you got a lil loaded dust going on in the air the last thing you want to do
is tight the lanes of your camera this dust particles that filling the air
so you need to wait until the dust has settled give it a little bit of time
now of course those times that you can be on the beach photographing into the
Summit League ranking Elizabeth
glory days but a wind-blown sand is Dustin stuff in the air
will you can minimize it if you think about it
is really not too bad 3 change lanes
don't take the lens of anything right I'm gonna
put the camera their nearly lying on its back we go to your camera bag in
gas another lens and then you come over here he put the lens dan you put the
lens cap on all that kinda stuff
because all the time that camera is lying on its back
this dust going into the body so
I would suggest that's just what I day
we're changing lanes to the camera out that way get you lanes ready
the one you can upon get out the bag lives in the lens cap turn the camera
that way out
tens of their lens cap pick up the other lands
onto the body and you're ready to rock and roll yeah
just kinda think about duck into doll-like going to you hope
to I'm really sorry there's no way you can totally stop dust
entering into camera body 11 and then you will have to get your sense a clean
in a genuinely do this
I'm not joking this tribal has goal since and the bits and pieces on it
from my nose down near the beach mean a thing sometimes stand in muddy water
salt water
yes and then and then the legs are bitten a bit grouchy
an iPhone the easiest way to get it off my tripod
is literally just use a hose pipe and a brush
anna is a bucket because
you get so the contaminated it's a great in the bucket list for the most part you
can just conferences all sizes kinda and I'm
stretch at all the different PCs rinse them down just get lost their
now this in aluminium tripod it isn't going I rustic
carbon fiber is an entire estate all I do is give a difference like that
and I'm I can't stand it somewhere in the dry
just to you know me the other for day it's a with the extended now so two
different lines hanging upside down so the water can come out
glass house behind my place so it just can't hang upside down the glass house
for that it's not small
tries in no time it's not a problem as worrying about
protecting equipment from getting dirt on it
I tend not to worry too much camera equipment is far more robust than you
might imagine
other obvious things as we talked about earlier you do not take the lens of
an analogous and in great to get inside the body when everything is assembled
is far more resilient than you might imagine
lenses keeping the lens cleaner again dust and dirt does get on the lens
I use a lens hood a lot because it prevents fingers from touching the glass
lip reading it will release me remarks policeman on tonight makers
harder to remove right now loan has got
the lens hood on the video camera that's what's stopping raindrops going all over
the glass
but also fully stick my hand out like this
is also stopping my fingers from touching the glass
okay the lens hood is protecting the glass like that
I much rather do that use UV filter because you can still gets me remarks on
the UV filter
I always use a lens hood the camera body itself a moderate dust on it you can
always get a little brush
just give a little dust from time to time on
I use one a little squeegee tougher things every so often not what the lens
of will give the sensors will puff
because there will be some tough getting in there
but beyond that I don't really take a huge amount cares to whether or not they
did
does get on my cameras because you can always cleaning of
dust will always land on lens class et cetera so that's something all day
waiting to
I want clean the lens five or six times to do that I'll use either lens cleaning
cloth
apiece ive kitchen roll all lens cleaning tissues in just a
her flight that and give it a clean with a nice clean pieces lens cleaning cloth
don't want on the sleeve your wool sweater because that will take
oil from the sweater and smeared all over the lands
but to be honest with you that's about it
in absolutely categorically
not the things for the tripod you can lock your shot in place so that once you
say your composition
particularly landscapes everything's all ready to go the light changes you need
to white t wanna have to then fat for rent on the sex shop again
not really also which ones do time exposes where you're shooting something
with light trails in a car lights going across a bridge or something like that
you need a slow exposure you need something to hold your camera steady
so that you don't get camera shake during that exposure
who always in my opinion be a place for a tripod
hi I so on new a camera is fantastic because it means you can get good
quality images
when your hand holding in low-light particularly useful if you documenting
life
awaiting people having fun a party its also
but will highlight her performance get rid of your tripod
no
in well here's the thing
let's assume you've gone summers a little bit special you thought I don't
really wanna carry all my bits and pieces around when they needed a couple
lenses
I'm some you confronted with the situation we've got amazing landscaping
rocks in the foreground in the whole thing just look beautiful
between a Jew ten millimeter lands Nutella min 10 min ME two lenses in with
you
you're gonna wish you had it with you so do you need to take a UK with you all
the time when no you the judge what you doing
where you going but I would say it's probably good practice
to take most it with you most at the time met some pretty comfy backpack so
it's not that difficult
to carry a coupla lenses in a dance in our body
lightweight tripod probably good idea but if it's lightweight major is very
very steady is still
mustn't mobile I'm I would recommend a few summer bit special yet I would take
you for focal range
lenses take as many view lenses you need to you tend to double up you don't need
two lenses that cover 70 millimetres
two lenses that cover 200 millimetres but discover your focal range met 10
millimetres out about 200
and then you are set up for any situation so let's say the light was
absolutely gorgeous and syllabi being
rainy and miserable and brain spots on the lens in the video camera
and you thought only unlike those ponies over there matching they hadn't got
lucky purple rugs on
you know he gonna take a picture those ponies the beautifully backlit
began got your long lens from here to come to get into that
the missed the shot him yet you haven't got it to your call
you know where you're going you know what you're doing do you need to take
wheel kit with you all the time
it's your call you can have to judge that one for yourself
in sonay Canada Pentax Hasselblad
son son like I back on Olympus to G
it's like saying which is the best course his net
I mean you can always go horse riding on pretty much
any horse cock a into the console this when he keeps escaping and
running through the government trying to get out of down the road
pleeease which is the best camera it's a bit like which is the best horse
which is the best car there are arguments for buying cameras with higher
pixel densities were better build quality
if you working professionally you intended to really her mother knots out
a bit
but they all take great pictures
there was a guy on a workshop Iran recent in Switzerland called
Rodrigo if you're watching Rodrigo your star might
he was really into shooting straight story had a really really cold little
square camera I don't even know what make it was I'm sorry I'm so
uninterested in the brand all I was interested in was it was a very small
camera
he had interchangeable lenses and the street photography like to drink it was
doing
it was the perfect thing because he could just kinda lean against the wall
in blendon he's got a little camera
know me know issue 3 or some pic to the passersby and stuff that's going on
it's about choosing the camera this right for you if you want to do sports
photography in a stadium
and you can be shooting hand held in low light then you are you gonna have to
spend some bucks
on a camera which has got a very very high ISO performance
but it's less important what brenda is
what is important is that has the high ISO performance
Nikon and Canon you're the big boys out there in the world cameras
and therefore there are far more accessories available for nicole Johnson
cannons
then there are possibly for some other makes and by the way
if my little intro I missed out your brand of camera it doesn't hurt I like
that means I for got some help them
that isn't dissing thing okay it's a my brain doesn't work thing
internet I really promise you
there is necessary a better camera is best camera
stockings are hung up about which is the best camera or cameras take or some
pictures
the best cameras the one you've got with you at that time all these photos
that you're looking at right this minute were all taken
on my phone and nothing else they have been into Photoshop
had anything else done it is much more important to understand light
and composition then is to worry about what sort of phone you got
I could still go for a nice ride across the forest on this horse
has occurred on another horse the different breed
says that weren't quite so much about what maker cam you call
and think more about what you going to do with the camera and that's in a
sensitive light as I said low-light high-speed action
you need a very very high ISO performance if you wanna be shooting
loads at landscapes and things like that
and that's a different thing I would suggest that for most people right
people including you
you possibly gonna want shoot all sorts of things from
your children your relatives some photos at a friends wedding some landscapes and
or some pictures when you go way to a brilliant location
we go well not a workshop Iceland or something like that
I promise you all cameras take great pictures you don't have to worry
quite so much about the brand to your
room new
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