Learn It Well: Photography Basics for Serious Beginners
By Mohab Emad
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This guide is here for you to make you learn everything about the basics of photography, from holding your camera to translating your idea. Always ask yourself some questions before you shoot it, also you will bring what meant by "beauty" in every single photograph. So let's learn it well and get a great push!
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Learn It Well - Mohab Emad
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Mohab Emad is an Egyptian professional photographer .Born in 1993 in Cairo. This is the first book written by him about photography as he decided to teach people how to use there professional camera and how to setup its settings. He began his photography career since 2011. He started by shooting landscapes, nature like flowers and outdoor portraits.
His common-sense approach to photography and business makes the information he presents both practical and very easy to understand.
You can visit his official page from here: https://www.facebook.com/MEphotoEditing
Copyright © 2015 by Mohab Emad & Lulu.com
All rights reserved.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
(I) Introduction
What Actually Photography Means
How it can change your life
Caring about your camera
The Way to a Professional Photographer
Identifying problems
Improve your style
Practice makes perfect
(II) Technical
How does your camera works?!
The mechanism of the camera.
First and second curtain.
Understanding Each Parameter
Shutter speed
Slow shutter speed
Fast shutter speed
Aperture
Depth of field
ISO
Focal length
Different Exposures
What exposure means
Making balance
When to use flash
Why not to use built in flashes
White Balance
Why to adjust white balance
Camera Settings
Picture style
AF operation
-How to focus
RAW vs. JPEG
Metering modes
Single and continuous shooting
Camera modes
Composition
Rules of composition
Tips for a better composition
Questions to ask when taking a photo
Reference
Introduction
What Actually Photography Means
-How it can change your life
Photography or photosgraphos is a Greek word (photos-for light
and –graphos for drawing
).The first photography camera was created in 1820s with the development of chemical photography.
For me, Photography is the best way to change your view about anything goes around you; it can make your eyes more sensitive to light and contrast of colors, when you go in a walk with your friends in a new place to you that you never went to, you will find your eyes searching
about contrast and textures through the walls or paintings or buildings or even the ground that you are moving on then you take your photographs for this new place.
More than that, you will find how photography does change your life and how it builds a sense of order inside you and how you can choose the right colors for your clothes and how you are looking like inside people’s eyes. Also, you will look to people