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Brief principles for a beginner photographer

Is it possible to present basic principles, even if brief, that enable the beginner to overcome the barrier of fear and dive into the depths of photography?

Rashid Al-Jabhouri
Kuwait

Although your question is broad and comprehensive, we thought to shorten for you and all amateurs these principles within an extensive and brief investigation that.
We have decided to turn your question into another, more clear direction, which is:
What makes a good photograph? ..
In addition to the subject of the image, and the level of experience enjoyed by the photographer, there are a set of basic guidelines that you should adhere to: They are assets that must always be adhered to, no matter how good your equipment is.
Here's what the pros—including, in the case of photography, highly experienced organizations—recommend.
1- Hold the camera steady. This means that you stand firmly on the ground. Firm and steadfast holding of the camera is mandatory. Press the camera on your cheek if you can.

2- Press the shutter-release button softly: I don't punch you both of you - and if you can, hold the camera so that your right index finger is on the shutter-release button and your right thumb is on the base of the camera; Then press the button in a soft motion.

3 - Fill the frame of the picture: What this means is that you approach the subject until the viewfinder fills. Your adherence to this one law may work more than anything else to make the difference between an acceptable shot, at least, and another that looks like you took it from a mile away.

4- About using the flash The flash light becomes weaker and very quickly the farther the subject is from the camera. If the distance of the subject exceeds ten or twenty feet, there is not enough light remaining on it to show any of it on your film - so do not let your film be wasted by trying to capture from a distance of more than ten feet between you and the subject.
On the other hand, if you get too close to your subject. This subject will get a solid white appearance and do not forget that the flash light will bounce off mirrors, windows and other shiny objects, emitting a glow. To avoid this, shoot at any angle with the shiny object.

5-Film Composition No matter how good you take pictures, if your film is not fed properly, you will be subject to trouble. On most single-lens reflex cameras, the film rewinding handle rotates as you advance it to the next frame. If this handle does not rotate, then you are shooting a blank. And the best time to check this matter and make sure that things are going well is when you install the film in the camera. You snap onto the film and advance it two or three times right after you turn off the camera - you have the introductory distance to do that in the film without losing actual frames of it.

6-Leave it flat. Make sure the camera is parallel to the horizon, otherwise you will get a skewed print.

7. Pictures of people: A final word on your most-repeated topic.
Most of what you take will be pictures of people from
Acquaintances and relatives in particular, and there are two common problems that accompany taking such pictures. One of them is that people stiffen, so their smile leaves them in the face of the camera, and the second is that they often close their eyes the moment you take their pictures, so that you often show the beloved acquaintances as a group of frowning people.

This, and to make people smile, the old method is still effective, which is to confront them with what makes them laugh while photographing them. As for those who raise their eyes and close them at the moment of capture - here is another note:
Tell them you're going to count to three but, take the picture when you get to your count of -two, and so you get the picture as you want before they start blinking ⏹

The encirclement theory:

I want to know more about :
1 - Limit exposures.
Separate by two stops on either side of the crossing exposure.
2- How to shoot on one slide with a TTL camera.
3- Is there a book that deals with the manner and forms of lighting in the studio?
4- Is there a book that introduces or teaches how to retouch the black and white ID photos on the draft?

Zaka as a condition
Damascus - P.O. Box 10666, Syria.

1- Encircling the exposures, which means that we capture an exposition indicator, then we encircle, i.e. we capture above the indicator by one or two degrees or below the indicator by a stop. Let's calculate that the indicator gave us a shutter speed of 1/250 at f/8. We wanted to be surrounded, we had to take a picture at the F / 11 position or at the F / 5 and 6 position.
As for the difference in two stops on both sides of the exposure, then the stop, and here it means the shutter speed so that it captures the least two stops or more by two stops, so that the speed becomes 1/1000 instead of 1/250, or it becomes less than two stops, so it becomes 1/60.
2- Few cameras are equipped with a double shooting button, and from here photographers tend to:
A- Filming the first scene.
B - Roll the film arm towards the arrow as if we were pulling the film from the camera.
C - Press the film return button, provided that our hand remains at the fixed tension position on the film forearm roll.
d- Rolling the film puller, and thus the photographic film rolls on itself without pulling the film slide from its place.
E- Conducting multiple imaging, taking into account the strength of the existing lighting, or closing the lens aperture by two degrees.

3- Most of the photographic books are concerned with the subject of lighting and its distribution, including a book by (Peterson). titled; (Electronic Flash)
4- The book of retouching is (Photo Retouching)

⏺ The process of pasting photos on porcelain plates

I saw a new type of picture in Damascus that is spreading now, and it is pictures that stick on Chinese porcelain dishes, and I know that there is a material in which the bright colored picture is placed in order to separate it from the nature of the cardboard in order to put it on the dish in a circular shape or other shapes, so please, please explain this method in full ,
And what equipment is needed for it. Provided that there are no secrets in this field to anyone knowing that I have a studio and I hope to make this way to present my photos as gifts.

Maged Kamal Bgnika
Damascus, Syria .

The latest findings of technicians in this field is a fast, low-cost, automated process without the slightest error, and it does not require any special skill. This device is called Fotoglaze-M4, and it is a complete equipment box that contains pieces of Chinese glass and accessories for the printing process.
After you choose the appropriate pictures - any picture - you put them on the flat plate with a few chemical solutions and put them in the box, which works on
Pressing the image by thermal method, thus cutting its sides to create an image as if it were overlapping with the plate.
As for what this box contains in detail, it is the printing device.
Controllable circular section - 1 kilo of printing fluid - 1 roll of 66 meters of duplex tape
Side - 50 6-inch plates, 20 7-inch plates 10 10-inch plates, 2 small 5" x 4" plates, and 2 8" x 6" plates 30.
4 inch tiled murals. One jug, a pack of spare blades, 30 colored stickers, 10 colored pads, and an instruction booklet.
For more details about this box and its price - please write to
Adivison of Advancing ltd 3, Nobel Square. Burnt Mills Industrial Estate. Basildon Essex , england SS13 ILS england ⏹