Ahoj! This is Zdenka Darula. There are 5 very big mistakes every new
photographer makes. What are they and how can you instantly fix them to make
everything look better?
And for the new faces, my name is Zdenka Darula. I work as a
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It's overcast. A perfect day to get out of the office which I did. And everything is
green. Its spring. It is waking up, it's rich in tones and colors and it's wet. It's
perfect for photos and videos. That's why I am here. But I decided to talk to you
about something really important which I am just going to do. When you are new and
you start taking photos, you're gonna have a lot of fun. You're gonna enjoy it
for sure. But there will be some days when you
will be very frustrated and you're not gonna have exactly greatest time.
Especially when you get home, you upload the photos on a computer and you find
out that they are not good. Well, you have to put in the time. You have to put in
the hours, the days, months. Sometimes even the years to develop the skill, to gain
the experience. So today I picked five very big mistakes I usually notice right
away when I'm looking at photos from new photographers. Those five mistakes
usually tell me how much experience the photographer has. Hopefully with this
video you'll learn much faster.
The first one is here. The missed focus. This is usually very common problem,
especially if they are using auto focus and he let the camera to
choose your focus. Especially if you are using low aperture, very shallow depth of
field. It's something you cannot really fix in post, it's almost impossible. It
is the best if you choose single point auto focus. Very simply you just tap on
the screen with the finger and you choose what you want to focus on or if
you're focusing with the lens, just focus, half press the button, recompose and then
click finish the shot. And don't forget, if you're taking photos of people you
need to focus on their eyes. Mistake number 2. Well, you take your time to
pose your model or friend. You make sure they have beautiful shape of the body,
you look at their face, you make sure they have the best expression possible,
the best look. You take a whole bunch of photos, you do all that. You come home,
upload it on a computer and then you realize that there is a pole or tree or
something just sticking out of their heads. I've been there. I know it is very
hard to concentrate on everything. It is very hard to double check the whole shot.
So what do you need to do first. You get to the location, you pick the spot, make
sure you scout the background very well before you even place the model there.
Then you place the model. Double check again. Once you're set, then you start
posing your model and directing them.
Another one is pretty big mistake as well. Blurry or shaken photos. Usually
when you take photos and you look at that little screen, the photos usually
look pretty good because it's so small. But then wait until you get to the
computer and you enlarge your photos and you see that they're actually blurry.
They are shaken. That's usually a common mistake when you use too slow of a
shutter speed. Rule of a thumb is. You should usually use at least shutter speed
equivalents to the focal length of your lens. For example on a full frame camera
if I am using 50 millimeter lens then I'm going to use one fiftieth of a
second, otherwise you will need to use a tripod. On cropped aps-c sensor, multiply
the focal length by 0.5 so 50 millimeter lens on the aps-c sensor would be 85. So
you should use at least 185th of a second shutter speed. But this doesn't
apply if your lens has image stabilization. In that case you can go
three to five stops slower.
Mistake number four is here. And this one absolutely drives me crazy. I simply call
it the photo snapper. Let's say the photographer, the new photographer is
invited to anniversary or birthday party, or is invited to friend's wedding or is
going to second shoot a wedding. Maybe photographers friend wedding. And
instead of taking photos of an action, he's actually doing this.....
snap, snap, snap, snap, snap is a photo snapper, it's not a photographer. When
When you actually shoot on a target, you also don't snap. You wait. You focus
right? So the same thing happens when you're shooting anniversary or life
event. You are waiting. You pick a couple or the person or something very
interesting. Or I usually pick very interesting person which very pops from
the group and I position myself so I have a nice view and then I wait and I
wait and I wait for the smiles and I wait for conversation. I wait for sudden
movements and stuff like that. And that's when I get the emotion and take the
photo. When you just snap and walk around and you
give it to the photographer like me, if I get a second shooter and that person
gives me those kind of photos, the snap photos, I know that 80% will be garbage.
It is not going to be usable. It's just random photos. But if you take your time
and you really try to take the photo, you wait for the moment, you will get the
reel authentic emotions, the real photos.
Mistake number five is here and it's poor composition, which can really ruin
your photos. How many times I've seen photos of people where the head is
missing or the fingers are missing or part of the leg or butt or I don't know.
Or if I seen the horizon where its actually cricket it's not like that, or I've
seen photo just of branches, but nothing really interesting behind that. So some
people are born with it. They see it right away, which is awesome, others
might need little help. Don't be shy to turn on the grid which
shows the rule of thirds. So those were the five biggest mistakes I usually
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next one.... Cau.... Ahoj...