Avoid These 5 Common Camera Setting Mistakes Made By Beginners

photography is not easy as you think. You need a long time to become a photographer and there are many mistakes you have to avoid them to get a good pictures and I will talk about these mistakes in my article.

first, don’t raising the ISO high enough It used to be commonly taught that you always needed to go as low as possible with the ISO for digital cameras. This was because early digital cameras had horrible noise at higher ISOs. These days, that has completely changed. Newer digital cameras can shoot with incredible quality at ISO 800, 1600, 3200, and even 6400 for higher end cameras. The noise is much less noticeable than it used to be, and it is much more pleasant looking. second, Using a shutter speed that’s too slow. To offset the handheld camera shake, the shutter speed always needs to be ONE over the focal length of your lens. So if you are shooting with a 50mm lens, your camera will need to be at 1/50th of a second (or faster) to make sure the image is sharp. This comes even more into play with a zoom lens because a 300mm lens will need a 1/300th of a second shutter speed in order for the image to not look blurry. This is because slight vibrations are much more noticeable when you magnify a small area in the distance. This is also why I will often raise my ISO when zooming at far distances.
For subjects in motion, you will need a fast enough shutter speed to freeze them. I prefer a minimum of 1/250th of a second to freeze people walking. You will need an even faster shutter speed as you get to subjects such as cars. Third, Not using exposure compensation (+/-) or the right meter mode. If you are using Aperture or Shutter Priority mode, Exposure Compensation is your best friend, particularly in scenes with tricky lighting. Your camera’s light meter is not creative – it wants to make everything look a neutral gray, but that is problematic in images with lots of dark or bright tones. Maybe you want those tones to look gray for creative purposes, but most likely, you will want them to be true to the scene. This is where Exposure Compensation (+/-) comes into play. Fourth, don’t getting the focus point right. Some photographers leave their focusing completely up to the camera. This is a terrible idea as the camera will often focus on the wrong point, ultimately ruining your image. You need to be in control of your focusing and put the focus on the most important subject in the image.
On a similar note, it is common for photographers to get that new 50mm f/1.8 or f/1.4 lens and immediately think that they need to shoot everything at f/1.4 because they can. Some situations will be good for f/1.4, but it’s important to realize how shallow the depth of field is at that aperture.
If you are shooting with a really shallow depth of field, the focus needs to be perfect and exactly right on the most important subject. If you are photographing a person and you put the focus point on the person’s ear or nose instead of their eyes, it will be noticeable and it will mess up the photograph. Often, I prefer to shoot portraits like this at f/4 instead of f/1.8 or f/2.8. There is still a beautiful background with bokeh, yet more of the person is in focus. This minimizes any focusing mistakes as well. Fifth, Using image stabilization when using a tripod. The image stabilizer in your lens or camera will make your photographs sharper when handheld. However, it can also create minor vibrations while keeping the camera steadier, and these vibrations can actually backfire when you are on a tripod. Sometimes they will introduce blur. So always make sure to turn the image stabilizer off when you are using a tripod. If you ever notice your photographs on a tripod are slightly blurry, this issue and wind are the most likely culprits. finally if you can learn to conquer and avoid these five common beginner mistakes, you’ll be on your way to better photography.

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Photography

Photography is an art like any other art, such as music, painting and other art, although it is much closer to painting.
In our time and with the development of technology cameras became available in all kinds and sizes and accessible to everyone and high technology and almost everyone is able to take pictures but not all photographers professional or technicians have been separated from professional photography and normal photography
For two types of images:
A regular shot and it is called “Snapshot” and we find this word on many new cameras of course the regular shot of its name, a regular shot may be a snapshot of memory or a particular event and does not symbolize anything.
A photograph or art image is called Photography and is based on sense and creativity in moving feelings and feelings towards the image and may symbolize something specific, theme or meaning.
This is why photography became an art of other arts and became his own methods of photography and methods and studies in universities and became his degrees as well as majors
The technical photograph is not supposed to be taken from a professional camera, it may be from a lower quality camera, less features, or even a normal camera, because the artistic image depends on the photographer himself and his creations.
For photographs I came back forms and there I went back methods or techniques for photography I will explain some in short
Why did I say that the art of photography is very close to the art of painting because they have common qualities in forms of photography and forms of painting such as Landscape and Portrait, and if the goal is one of photography and painting which is to convey a certain scene to the viewer if I want to describe the word art it means from my point of view moving feelings and feelings and changing the human condition from one situation to another and different types of art for this art appeared art such as art and art of photography and art of acting and art of speech and each art of its own style
I don’t get out of my main topic
Forms of photography
That’s where I’m back in the form of photography.
Landscape photography or, as it’s known, landscapes, or, as I like to call it, open space.