Getting Started With Photography

Hello everyone, this is the first article of the blog and I want to start things off by informing a little bit about this blog. As the name suggests we will discuss photography, just any topic related to the subject of the title. I will be posting articles related to photography and we all can discuss about it in the comments section. So let us begin this article with basics of photography.

What is the meaning of word “Photograph”?

Well, the word “photo” is a Greek word which translates to light. So there you have it, light – it is where everything revolves around in a photograph. Perfect light equals perfect photograph.

Now that you know that let us talk about various types of devices with which you can click a photograph. They include-

1. DSLR Camera

2. Regular Point-and-shoot Camera

3. Smartphone

Let us know about them in deatil.

     1. DSLR Camera 

      DSLR which stands for Digital – Single Lens Reflex are those cameras which the professionals use. These cameras have interchangeable lenses of different focal lengths and other specifications. These cameras provides several slots for many advanced photography equipments as well as advanced settings for changing the values of aperture, shutter speed and aperture, which you can read more about here.

2. Point-and-shoot Camera

          Regular Point-and-shoot cameras are generally handy cameras with a permanent lens which cannot be interchanged. These cameras, as the name suggest are mostly used for pointing and shooting the image without tweaking much settings. These cameras don’t provide advanced settings, but they do provide some basic settings.

                 3. Smartphones

           

          Smartphones nowadays have improved so much in the camera department that people sometimes choose them over some DSLR cameras. The main quality of the smartphone cameras is that the camera software and image processing algorithms give some amazing photos in the auto mode and the user don’t even have to change any settings. Many smartphones don’t provide the option of advanced settings, but on the other hand some smartphones provide advanced DSLR-like settings menu to enhance the photographs.

           

        All these cameras have different values and range of shutter speed, aperture and ISO. These three parameters are the most important parameters in photography. They make up a photograph and it is very important to know their importance as they are used to construct a photograph. I will continue the basics of photography in next which is about these parameters, you can read it here.

          This is it for this article. Let me know in the comments below what you think about this article and keep reading. Thank you.