Photography 101
Taking photography is something most of us do to capture the memories from our travel, events, weddings etc. I guess now a days with cell phones and cheaper point and shoot cameras, capturing photos has become even more easier. I am not going to talk about taking photos for the everyday events or routines. I wish to share information that I have learnt over last few years and most recently the class I attended over the weekend in Bangalore.
I bought by first DSLR in 2009 and have been using it since then. Here is what I use:
Nikon 18–55mm f3.5–5.6 Lens
Nikon 3100
Nikon 70–300mm Telephoto Lens
Nikon 55mm f1.4 Prime Lens
Before you begin I highly highly recommend attending a weekend course that covers the basics of buying, using and building a style of your photography. There are numerous classes that are being offered in Bangalore, I attended the class offered by Kalyan Varma. There are 3 reasons I chose him :-)
1. His SEO rankings are pretty good which happens only if you have a popular site
2. I read a blog about his class by Citizen Matters
3. Finally after checking out his work and photos I figured its a good place.
I had great time on both the days. The first day we focused more on technicality of taking photos along with buying guidelines while the second day was all about field day and post processing. We spent almost 3 hours at Lalbhag in the early hours of the Sunday taking pictures of anything and everything. I took almost 200 pictures and in the end I had 3 that I could showcase well :-). There were a lot of things that I picked up in the class which otherwise I hadn’t paid too much attention to.
Here are a few of my key take aways.
Some guidelines for buying
Here are some photos from the class exercise, which was to catch the essence of Kempegowda tower at Lalbhag
Disclaimer: I am NOT a professional photographer nor I claim to be a great photographer. I do this as a hobby and to fulfill my constant quest of learning new things.