Basics of Photography – I

Basics of photography part 1. Can I start? Oh! thank you for giving me the opportunity to say few words in front of you. I am just a learner in this field. Now a days those who have a DSLR and 18-55 mm lens have claimed them as a photographer. But they don’t know even the full form of the DSLR. It’s funny, well the full form of DSLR is Digital Single-Lens Reflex. One day I asked one of those people kindly tell me what’s the difference between Image, Picture and Photograph. He/She answered me that all are same, but you know the difference of those all three things are:

These three are interchangeable in informal speech.

Picture is a broad term in basics of photography:

it is used to refer to oil paintings, children’s drawings, digital images, etc. Picture is also used metaphorically in referring to something pleasant: “she was a picture in pink”.

A photograph is an image captured by a camera, whether digital or film. In the early days of digital, it was common to refer to a “digital photo” or “digital picture”.

Image for computer users refers to graphical representations. Many images are photos. Image is considered more technical; a graphic artist might say “I am enhancing this image”.

Now I just try discussing some basics of the photography. First of all we must know what the photography is:
The more decades I do this, the more I realize everything in photography comes down to one word: vision. Call it vision, imagination, or seeing; it all comes down to the same thing: the ability to envision a final result in your mind’s eye, and then to make it so with your tools at hand.
The first basic of Photography is the framing. This you can do with your mobile camera as well.

Framing in basics of photography

Framing is the way you present your thought. It is like poetry. How you present the poem and take the reader into your confidence. How you present your story through a photograph is framing.
There are no hard and fast rules in it. But there are guidelines. e.g.

Rule of Third

The basic principle behind the rule of thirds is to imagine breaking an image down into thirds (both horizontally and vertically) so that you have 9 parts.

As you’re taking an image you would have done this in your mind through your viewfinder or in the LCD display that you use to frame your shot.
With this grid in mind the ‘rule of thirds’ now identifies four important parts of the image that you should consider placing points of interest in as you frame your image.
Not only this – but it also gives you four ‘lines’ that are also useful positions for elements in your photo.

The theory is that if you place points of interest in the intersections or along the lines that your photo becomes more balanced and will enable a viewer of the image to interact with it more naturally. Studies have shown that when viewing images that people’s eyes usually go to one of the intersection points most naturally rather than the center of the shot – using the rule of thirds works with this natural way of viewing an image rather than working against it.

to be continued……………

References
1) AnirbanSaha.com
2) http://www.photographyicon.com
3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography
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