Hey and welcome in this video.
In today episode I'll talk about five common mistakes that photography beginners do and
how to avoid them.
My name is Benjamin Jaworskyj, adventure photographer from Berlin Germany and I was a beginner as
well.
As you are now and I want you to avoid the mistakes I did a few of them you will see
in this video I did as well, not all of them and I saw a lot of people visiting my workshops
doing these mistakes so you can avoid them in the future if you listen closely to the
following tips.
There is nothing about it to having great gear and being a bit of a techie but in the
beginning, too much gear will confuse you and with that every lens and every peace of
new equipment the things get more complicated.
You should focus on the essentials like aperture, ISO and shutter in manual mode.
That's enough to get confused by as a beginner.
Understand natural light.
Try to find things you are interested in photographing and take photos, photos, photos.
Practice, practice, practice.
The less gear you have the more you think about photography.
All you need in the beginning is any camera, one lens, a battery, card and maybe a tripod.
Autofocus is a great thing but your camera never knows what exactly is going on in your
crazy brain.
Do you want to focus in the front or in the back?
The camera does not know that you love the bokeh and that you want to take photos of
your hand in macro mode.
It may think, wouh that is a nice background or away with that ugly hand.
So what you should do, is set you focus points manually to the part of the image you want
to focus.
Help the camera and work together as a team.
No more confusion and sharper images.
You got your first camera and the first thing you do is, you go in the menu and take a look
around.
Wow all those new words and all those nice buttons let's press them and turn them but
never ever read the manual.
Okay that's fine if you have some experiences but as a beginner, just don't.
I have seen a lot of people coming to my workshops in the last years who asked me.
Ben why are my pictures so blurry, why is everything black and white, why does it only
shoot JPG and the pictures are super small.
Only change the settings if you know what they mean.
Reset your camera if you have done anything bad.
Usually the standard settings are working pretty fine and if you want to do something
with a new camera adjust the little wheel on the viewfinder next to your eye.
If the auto focus says it's sharp but you see blurry it may be that little nasty wheel
next to the viewfinder.
Most people shoot from the head perspective.
They walk around take photos and there is nothing bad to that, but if you want to be
creative and get perspectives that look more interesting go away from what everyone does.
Lay on the ground in the dirt take things in the foreground climb on trees do your thing
and be creative.
Do what you need to get the picture and don't be afraid of the dirt, don't be afraid of
your wife who shouts at you when come home all dirty and wet and oh okay maybe better
be afraid but do everything for a photo.
The flash is a great invention and you can do awesome stuff with the flash but in 99%
of your photography life your internal camera flash should stay inside.
Do you know tourists who come to a landscape spot in the middle of the day and flash edit
or they are in a zoo flashing through the glass or stand on a concert 200 meters away
from the stage and flash at the artist.
It makes no sense it is just annoying.
In most of the situations the internal harsh flash destroys the mood of a picture.
Better keep the ISO up or use a tripod or take an external flash.
The internal flash of the camera only use when I have no other choice or just want a
quick snapshot of me and Leonardo DiCaprio hanging out for my Instagram.
Those where five common mistakes that photography beginners do and how to avoid them.
Now I'm interested in which mistakes you did as well.
Maybe some of the video you recognized yourself.
Post them in the comments below maybe you have other mistakes that you recognized on
your self to help other people.
Post them in the comments section as well and if you want to see more videos, disciple
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