My Hobby, Photography ;) + TIPS

               

Aha! I am inside the world of Digital Photography.

       In my own words,  Digital Photography is a study and art of portraying varied illuminated entities using a tool that can capture and digitally store the pictographic images of the illuminated entities inside an electronic memory device.

Model: Nelly Karen Viktoria D. Rosales. Captured using Engr. Michael V. Nalitan's Canon 1100D.

1986 Nikon TW2 Point and Shoot film camera. This was used as a subject of the photograph.

        To start, my name is Kurt Irving S. Barcelona. Student. Photography is my hobby. I capture images using a cheap and portable digital camera . Yeah yeah..go ahead and tease me now for I don't have a Digital Single-Lens Reflex (DSLR) Camera. Well, I don't have enough money to buy myself a Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) camera, but I'm saving for it. Time will come, and I'll have a nice DSLR!

Electronic circuit (1.5-Watt Frequency Modulated Radio Transmitter)

You might ask what are my reasons why I like photography. These are the ff:

Mergrande Resort Kurt Barcelona 2011

1.) Photography has originality.

    
       Photography isn't a painting class where you have to originally compose an artwork out of nothing. Photography takes it to a lighter level. Photography won't use every juice you have in your brain just to capture a magnificent photograph. A photographer can explore and incorporate other styles or approaches when it comes to capturing photographs.



  

Pisay SMC 24th Foundation Day with Benedict R. Zapanta

2.) It can fulfill the sense of vision.

        I've heard people saying "To see is to believe".  This depicts a strong sense of visual interaction between human beings and their surroundings. People tend too use their vision in order to interpret their surroundings. Well, photography is useful in that situation. Capturing and showing images can extend human sense of vision towards the surroundings.

          For example, consider a situation of a boy named Boz who just visited Philippines. He talks about his trip to his friends, but his friends cannot visually interpret the information from Boz's trip if Boz just keeps talking about it. But If Boz shows pictures from his trip in Philippines, then Boz can extend the vision of his friends so that they can follow his conversation.

         This kind of Photography is usually observed in newspapers, magazines, posters and more. This is commonly heard as photojournalism, which extends the sense of vision and reality to the people who view the particular image.

Pisay SMC Intramurals 2011 Basketball

3.) It's a memory tool.

        You capture images of certain events and store them in your electronic memory such as a memory card. After some time, you can view these images in order to refresh your memory about these events that you captured some time long ago. It's worth it :)  

 I don't know your reasons on how you liked photography. I guess you own a digital camera and you want to make your photos look neat and all or you just want to learn a new art.

If you want to start learning how to take nice shots, you must first learn the basic skills. I tell you..It's real basic and simple. All you need to do is apply the techniques and practice on them. These skills or techniques in photography are shown in my other post

LET'S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS :D  (RIGHT BELOW)

              If you're familiar to these skills, you can view my example photos down below. You can read the description in order for you to understand how these sample photos were photographed. Tips are also included in the captions portion of the photo being displayed. Images (c) Kurt Barcelona :)

Reduce the Exposure compensation of the camera if the image appears to be very bright.
Exposure compensation was reduced in the image above due to the bright light coming from the sky.

Making the subject surround the frame of the image is also possible.

Captured using a longer shutter speed, and a large f-stop number.
Use an illuminating subject such as a candle, cellphone display, etc in making a so called 'LIGHT PAINT'. This 'LIGHT PAINTING' is usually applied fireworks in the dark skies at night.

Shot using Canon 1100D. decreasing the f-stop number in MANUAL or APERTURE PRIORITY mode will increase the light coming into the sensor. Increasing the amount of light coming into the sensor will generate a point of confusion or 'bokeh' in the unfocused part of the image, such as the background of the image above. This 'bokeh' can be explained in a more complex and detailed approach in optics, but we won't tackle them here. Just remember that bokeh in the background can be achieved using a lesser f-stop number in the aperture.

Shot using a Canon 1100D. Increase the ISO number in PROGRAM or MANUAL mode when taking pictures in low light area conditions such as the one above, but increasing the ISO will render a grainy image. Increasing the ISO will make the camera's image sensor more sensitive to light, but the more sensitive the image sensor gets, the hotter it becomes. The heat generated by the sensor makes the images grainy.

A very high ISO was used here. You can observe the grainy texture on the right part of the image. This was shot in low light conditions. TIP: using black and white images can convert the color noise into black and white noise. Black and white noise are not really as annoying as color noise.

Observe the rule of thirds: the subject is diagonal.

Observe rule of thirds: the subject stands on the 1/3 line of the image. TIP: If you want to capture a BLUER sky, make sure you are shooting at noontime with clear skies. The sun's rays are perpendicular to the atmosphere during noontime. If the sun's rays are perpendicular to the sky, the sun's rays will most likely hit the ground than the atmosphere you are capturing.  Try to observe that if the sun's rays are almost parallel with the atmosphere (morning/dusk), the sky won't be as blue, but more of a yellow.

Captured by focusing on the foreground and tilting the camera slightly above to reveal the blurred background. Observe that the rule of thirds : 2/3 of the image is occupied by the subject. Observe that there's a sense of perspective: One-point perspective is shown. The tiles lead to a vanishing point.

Okay. I think you had some knowledge on stuff concerning Photography. Well. Please visit my other posts to see more :) Cheers :)

More details about the author:

Kurt Irving S. Barcelona
picture (c) Leslie Faye Cando

Kurt Irving S. Barcelona, n years old. Male. Currently studying in Philippine Science High School Southern Mindanao Campus. He takes Photography as a hobby. He has no digital single lens reflex camera, but he captures images using a CDR-KING DDV-V3HD Camera.  All images displayed except for his photo above was from the collection of his own captured photographs. He borrowed several cameras: a Canon 1100D 17-55mm DSLR  kit from Engr. Michael V. Nalitan, Canon Hybrid camera <insert camera model here> from Sir Trextan Thaddeus Sanchez, Sony Alpha <insert camera model here> from Leslie Faye Cando and a Canon 550D 17-55mm DSLR kit from Zara Mae F. Sayson. Kurt is willing to share information and knowledge on his hobby to other hobbyists throughout the world. Cheers :)

Digital Camera of Kurt Irving S. Barcelona :CD-R KIng DDV-V3HD

Kurt's Motto: "rola"
gets? XD

Kurt Irving S. Barcelona. (c) 2012