Photography lesson for Idiots!!! 1. trigger happy

Ever since i started my photoblog ive been visiting other peoples blogs, and the've been visiting mine. i must say that some are really good, some are gettin better and some i just want to beat up with their own camera if i every met them and saw them taking pictures.

there are 2 solutions to this over whelming problem of bad photography.
1. i can either sit back and call all of you who 'think' you take good photographs, idiots.
2. or i can teach some basic photography skills... practical and theoretical...

since im such a nice guy im gonna go with option no. 2.

First lesson: and im naming them

Trigger happy!

This is the first thing you have to know about any 'auto' camera you have. When i say 'auto' i mean the digicams or the ordinary film cameras which dont have a huge lens that u need to turn for focus or zoom.
grip the camera firmly in your right hand and put your right index finger on the trigger. (they dont make Left handed cameras). do not ever use only ure index finger and thumb to hold ure camera. it annoys me! grip it firmly with ure palm even.

then, while your camera is off, press the trigger slowly. you should feel a stop. and then when u press harder another stop. press it a few times till you know where the 2 clicks/stops are just to get the hang of it.

when the camera is on and u press till u reach the first stop, what the cameras inbuilt computer is doin is measuring the amount of light in ure shot and the focus it has to get. so it would be a good idea to hold it at the first stop for a second before you press harder to the next stop/click. the second stop/click is the one that takes the photo...

if the camera is out of focus you should have an orange blinking light somewhere on ure camera. different cameras have differnt places where something blinks...


simply put

stop/click 1: light measurement, focus measurement.
stop/click 2: shot captured.
blinking thing anywhere on the camera: out of focus


stay tuned for more lessons...