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Improvisions for photography hie l would like to first try as a freelance photography and eventually have my own studio. l own a SLR manual camera at present ,and do not have many accessories. These xtras are proving difficult to come across and when quite expensive for me. Can I please have some tips to improvise with for the mean time.These can include lighting, filters,tonal effects and anything relevant to make good pictures with basic equipment.
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Andy |
National Geographic and Outdoor Photographer are some of my favorite megazines. Amazingly many photogrphers still using the manual SLR and limited accessories in different extreme conditions. One even use only one SLR with a wide angle lens (I have to go home and dig out the names and their equipment list). I, myself, has used a manual camera from the 70's (with a build in light meter) with a 50mm lens, a 28mm lens, a 135mm lens (which I use less than 10 times in the past twenty something years), a flash, a shutter release and a tripod. In the past 4 years, I had purchased about 10 filters as I learned more about photography. I had been taken landscape pictures, portraits and wedding and party photos with those equipment. It is the photographers who made great pictures. Camera and other accessories are only tools. Composition, lighting, exposure, etc. are the elements of great photos. You can have good cameras and lenses but if you do not know the techniques of photography, it is a waste of those equipment. Learn about the different lighting techniques (front lighting, side light at 45 degree, side lighting at 90 degree, back lighting, etc), composition (the rule of third and when to break it, have the main subject close up, framing your subject, draw attention to your subject with lines, use shallow depth-of-field to bring subject to focus but not anything else, or deep depth-of-field if you are taking landscape), usage of filters (polarizer to deepen the color of sky and reduce glare on non-metallic surface, graduate neutral density filter to bring balance closer for hightlight and shadow, a warming filter to reduce blue cast, etc). Train your eyes, look at things from different angle and keep trying. Oh, if you can afford, take a good course in photography. Hope this helps.
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