Five Photography Tips
During the year of 2013 I have leave you some tips on methods or processes that will facilitate me the path as a photographer.
Now I do a roundup of five tips that I consider very important.
1 - Find a working method
Create a project, an image or a scenario is a job that requires some inspiration but above all depends on the implementation of a rigorous work where we use tools like in any other profession.
Each one of us uses the tools that best meets our needs and will get the inspiration to several sources. As I mentioned in a previous post for me having a notepad for the creation phase and a camera with a few accessories to the next stage is enough.
Perform sketches and descriptions of the image is always a good help. I use a drawing and a note program.
It seems to me that these tools are useless if there isn't a personal message that its honest and transmits our way of being, thinking and always combining the aesthetic content. But where does the inspiration come?
I inspire me in my experience of life and what surrounds me, what gets me through the senses (a flavor, a song, a movie, a conversation, a book or even a picture).
We should consider some things when we talk about the creative process. Inspiration from something does not mean copying one of its parts or even the whole. If you really conceive the creative process as something personal through which you transmit a way of being you automatically have to reject everything that is not specifically designed for this purpose. The images have to come from our interior in such a natural way like the message that they are intended to convey.
However, even if these rules are applied is likely that there are dozens of authors to work in a very similar manner. By way of example I remember an episode that happened to me some time ago when I decided to take a walk along the beach to experience a new kind of film for traditional revelation. At one point I sat down to rest a bit when I noticed a curious scene of a bird on top of a metal frame. I took the smartphone, took a picture and posted immediately on Facebook. It was an absolutely uncompromising act in which I tried to convey something that I saw and felt at that moment. Sometime later this photo led me to be accused of copying an Italian photographer whose name and work I was completely unaware. This is to say that regardless of the direction that we take creatively, there are certainly many authors who perform similar work. This is normal and should not be, even for a second, cause for concern. Being honest with the work we do is the key to walk with your head high when someone accuse us of being walking on someone else's path.
2 - Shoot in RAW
Shooting in raw gives us a number of advantages including the fact that we capture all the information of the scene photographed without loss of detail, we monitor better the image control in editing with the possibility of publishing more parameters, to introduce more shades making the most accurate picture of the reality and give us a greater ability to recover images with incorrect exposures. You must shoot in raw.
3 - Feed your image stock
A good practice that gives results in the medium and long term is the storage and cataloging of images. There are several good free programs available to us. Take your camera with you always and seize any output to increase your stock images.
At the time of tagging be accurate and detailed so that images are easily accessible.
4 - Keep it simple
Don't complicate something can be applied to various situations and photography is no exception. Keep your ideas simple and be methodical in implementing your plans but do not forget to change when your senses dictate.
5 - Be Persistent
A image can not work to the first or second attempt but eventually will reach an outcome that you consider satisfactory.
Do not give up when the images do not result is difficult but it is a mandatory exercise. Not content with little. Try until you get the result you want.
Stay safe.
Sergio Moreira
You can also see the article in: http://sergiomoreira.com/photography-tips/
Now I do a roundup of five tips that I consider very important.
1 - Find a working method
Create a project, an image or a scenario is a job that requires some inspiration but above all depends on the implementation of a rigorous work where we use tools like in any other profession.
Each one of us uses the tools that best meets our needs and will get the inspiration to several sources. As I mentioned in a previous post for me having a notepad for the creation phase and a camera with a few accessories to the next stage is enough.
Perform sketches and descriptions of the image is always a good help. I use a drawing and a note program.
It seems to me that these tools are useless if there isn't a personal message that its honest and transmits our way of being, thinking and always combining the aesthetic content. But where does the inspiration come?
I inspire me in my experience of life and what surrounds me, what gets me through the senses (a flavor, a song, a movie, a conversation, a book or even a picture).
We should consider some things when we talk about the creative process. Inspiration from something does not mean copying one of its parts or even the whole. If you really conceive the creative process as something personal through which you transmit a way of being you automatically have to reject everything that is not specifically designed for this purpose. The images have to come from our interior in such a natural way like the message that they are intended to convey.
However, even if these rules are applied is likely that there are dozens of authors to work in a very similar manner. By way of example I remember an episode that happened to me some time ago when I decided to take a walk along the beach to experience a new kind of film for traditional revelation. At one point I sat down to rest a bit when I noticed a curious scene of a bird on top of a metal frame. I took the smartphone, took a picture and posted immediately on Facebook. It was an absolutely uncompromising act in which I tried to convey something that I saw and felt at that moment. Sometime later this photo led me to be accused of copying an Italian photographer whose name and work I was completely unaware. This is to say that regardless of the direction that we take creatively, there are certainly many authors who perform similar work. This is normal and should not be, even for a second, cause for concern. Being honest with the work we do is the key to walk with your head high when someone accuse us of being walking on someone else's path.
2 - Shoot in RAW
Shooting in raw gives us a number of advantages including the fact that we capture all the information of the scene photographed without loss of detail, we monitor better the image control in editing with the possibility of publishing more parameters, to introduce more shades making the most accurate picture of the reality and give us a greater ability to recover images with incorrect exposures. You must shoot in raw.
3 - Feed your image stock
A good practice that gives results in the medium and long term is the storage and cataloging of images. There are several good free programs available to us. Take your camera with you always and seize any output to increase your stock images.
At the time of tagging be accurate and detailed so that images are easily accessible.
4 - Keep it simple
Don't complicate something can be applied to various situations and photography is no exception. Keep your ideas simple and be methodical in implementing your plans but do not forget to change when your senses dictate.
5 - Be Persistent
A image can not work to the first or second attempt but eventually will reach an outcome that you consider satisfactory.
Do not give up when the images do not result is difficult but it is a mandatory exercise. Not content with little. Try until you get the result you want.
Stay safe.
Sergio Moreira
You can also see the article in: http://sergiomoreira.com/photography-tips/
