How Do You Take The Best Photos You Can Every Time?
To take the best photos that you can, stop, slow down, look around and think about what you are photographing. Think about what you are including in a photo, think about what you are not including in a photo, think about how the elements of a photo relate, and think about the light. Then get your composition. Then get all that technical stuff sorted. And then take the photo.
They say the best advice is free, and this is just that. Free advice that will help you to take the best photos that you can every time. Everything I talk about in this episode costs nothing other than time. And thought.
Yes, a lot of what I am talking about here is all about plain old thinking.
How Does A Camera Work? Just The Stuff You Need To Know!
A camera is a light proof box with an opening in it, which opens when the shutter is raised to allow light to pass through to the camera sensor. Or film. This is what happens when you take a photo.
11 Actionable Things You And I Can Do To Improve Our Photography in 2023 – Part 2!
The 11 actionable things that you and I can do to improve our photography in 2023 are
Get out more and take photos
Learn to use all our gear properly
Start all over again
Simplify and get rid of distractions
Really think about composition
11 Things You Can Do To Take Better Photos (From The Photography Explained Podcast)
The 11 actionable things that you and I can do to improve our photography in 2023 are
Get out more and take photos
Learn to use all our gear properly
Start all over again
Simplify and get rid of distractions
Really think about composition
What Is Photography? My 2023 Update On What Photography Is
Photography in 2023 is a thriving thing. Mobile phones have exploded photography to a completely new level. Tech in phones and cameras has closed the gap between pro and non pro photographers. Photography in 2023 is at the core of many social media platforms. But photography in 2023 is still what it ever was – drawing with light. Photography in 2023 is still all about composition, what is in a photo. Well it should be anyway.
What Is Photography? Episode 1 Revisited. Well I Want To Get Back To Basics
What is photography to me?
Well, photography has been a huge part of my life since my early teens. And this is a long time I can assure you as I am quite old and I have spent my entire adult life studying, learning, practising, sharing and enjoying photography.
Photography (not Socrates which is what the transcript came up with!) has taken me to so many unique places and given so many unforgettable experiences,
I feel very fortunate to have found photography, or did photography find me? That was deep, wasn't it? Don't worry, I’m done with that!
Let me tell you about some things that photography has given me.
How Technology In Cameras Helps Us To Take Photos (Part 2)
Well I answered this in the last episode. So in this episode I want to get straight into the things that I did not have time to talk about.
Focus bracketing
Post focus simulation
In camera HDR
JPEG Presets
High Resolution Modes
Processing in camera
Wireless live streaming
In camera forgery proof technology
Lens coatings
Editing
AI stuff
Phone technology
Image processing – I need to come onto that. That will be one for yet another episode.
How Technology In Cameras Helps Us To Take Photos
Technology in cameras in 2022 helps us photographers to take better, higher quality, sharper photos. The technology helps us to take these photos in more challenging conditions than ever before. Technology has made cameras quicker, smaller, lighter and quieter. Technology in cameras has made it easier for photographers of all abilities to take photos using advanced techniques once available to pro photographers only.
Technology in cameras has closed the gap between consumer and pro photographers.
And technology in cameras has of course transformed mobile phone technology into what it is today.
How Is Artificial Intelligence Used In Photography? Will AI Ever Replace Me?
AI is artificial intelligence. AI is used in photography to take technically higher quality photos. AI in photography is used to apply previous learning to the processing of images. AI in photography provides endless new opportunities to intelligently automate photographic processes.
But. AI cannot replace the human bit of us, our feelings, emotions, views, and beliefs.
So no, AI in photography will not replace us as photographers. Well not completely. And not yet.
I Only Take Photos With My Phone - What Photography Stuff Am I Missing Out On?
If you only take photos with a phone you are missing out on many photographic things, such as
A thing ergonomically designed to take photos – yes a camera
Camera lenses
The taking photos with a camera experience
A much larger camera sensor
Gear to help you take better photos
And a whole world of photography stuff
OK - and some complicated photography stuff too
I know that phones are great and can take amazing photos, but let me tell you what you might be missing out on if you only use your phone to take photos.
Do I Really Need A Camera In 2022? Or Will My Phone Do Instead?
If you want to explore the wonderful world of photography fully, you need a camera, even in 2022. Sure, you can get great photos with a phone, but buying a camera allows you to grow your photography without limits and fully embrace and enjoy the wonderful world of photography. Buy a camera, and you open up a world of techniques, creative photo-taking possibilities and, of course, the gear to help you. In my humble opinion, you don’t get all of this with just a phone.
What Does The Future Of Photography Look Like?
The future of photography is very bright. The demand for images is higher now than ever, as is the number of photos being taken and shared. Photography has opened up to a global consumer market with advances in technology in phones and cameras.
How photos are taken, though, has changed, as has how people get into photography these days. The challenge is developing an interest in photography beyond basic phone photography.
The future of photography also has to cater for the constant need for immediacy - higher quality quicker. Or even higher quality immediately.
How Do We Get Started In Photography Today?
People get started in photography today by taking their new phone out of the box, turning the phone on, and taking photos. That is how people get started in photography today. Which is slightly less than when I got into photography all those years ago!
Is Photography Still Relevant In 2022? And What About In The Future?
Photography is bigger in 2022 than ever. There are probably more photos taken this year than ever before. So photography is still wholly relevant in 2022, with the growth being driven in part by the massive global popularity of social media. And this demand is only going to grow, with a growing population and technology becoming more and more accessible.
Photography is changing with trends and technology but is alive and well in 2022. There is a reason for this episode, which I will get on to in the next episode.
My Call For Questions From You. And Your Help.
When I started this podcast it was always my hope that my listeners would send in questions for me to answer. That has not quite worked out, so I am taking time in this episode to ask you for your questions, dear listener.
How Many Types Of Filters Are There In Photography?
There are many different types of filters in photography, which I will split into two distinct categories.
Ones that you attach to a camera lens
Ones that exist in software
Filters are used to enhance both image capture and images in post-processing.
Yes, having regretted picking this as the subject for this podcast episode, I realised that for a whole generation of people, filters are not things that you attach to a camera lens, but things that you apply in an App on your phone.
So in this episode, I am going to travel from when I was a young lad and bought things that I attached to my lens to the very modern day and filters in 2022.