How Lightings Can Play a Big Role in Your Photography Career

Does the mention of photography seem hard for you? You obviously haven't tried digital photography yet! Taking photographs is fun, however taking professional photographs one has to consider the lightings, the exposure, the shutter speed, and even how stable and steady is one’s hand holding the camera still. If questioning a professional, you will hear many terms such as red eye effects, white balance, mega pixels, macro and micro pictures, and much more!

So how does digital photography outdo film photography? In many ways! Digital photography has done most of the automation. For instance it has automatic focusing, lightings, and exposure. No more fiddling with knobs and buttons for those new to photography. Yet there are many settings for the advanced users too. Advanced users can adjust the lightings, reduce the shutter speed and even purposely make a picture have blurred motion effects!

For those of you who like to play with lightings, it will be a challenge which you will learn much of them outdoors. You should keep the optical settings between shots so that your lightings will always stay the same. Something you should know about lightings is the timing. When you taking photos, try to take photos at the same time of the day with the similar kind of lightings. It'll work great if the weather conditions is stable. For instance if today is a bright sunny day and tomorrow is a cloudy day, your picture will have a vast distinct difference and the major factor could be your lightings. Image manipulation software such as Photoshop could do some light effects however nothing can be compared to an original good shot.

Have you ever tried to take a shot in close range? You might know of the function call macro however after taking a shot, the flash brightens up the picture so bright, the whole screen is white in color. You must choose a right angle, get a different light source, or point your flash in a different direction which will reflect on to the close proximity object. It is no doubt very hard to achieve it. For this reason, macro shots should always be taken in highly lit environment for instance daylight.

In conclusion, a simple things such as lightings can play a major role in your journey as a photographer. It takes a lot of practice to achieve good and high quality pictures. The concepts that you learn from film photography can be applied into digital photography. All you need to do is adjust your self to the new settings found in digital photography camera.