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Chapter V

Prepare yourself and your camera for a creative shoot

Getting a good shot doesn't necessarily mean having a good camera, expensive lenses, and an exposure meter. Even accurately measuring lighting does not make for a good photo. For in order to make that shot, you must add to the things that we mentioned something that is more important than you! Yes, by thinking carefully about the contents of the shot and with your creative imagination, you create good shots, and the film has no choice but to record these creations for you with the help of your other equipment.

You are the one who studies the scene, chooses the appropriate point of view and adds whatever additional equipment you see fit to the camera to get the effect you previously imagined and then shoot.

Shutter button What raised that photographer to the ranks of celebrities and how was he able to capture this huge number of resulting photos. The answer is that he added those simple details that most photographers do not realize of any importance, as they are often the dividing line between a successful photo and a poor one. In this chapter, we will help you identify who she is

Focus on those simple details, and when you finish reading them, remember the golden rule of the photographer: Experience is the best proof. Experience alone can comprehend what you read until it becomes self-evident for you. And when you reach this level of awareness and understanding, you can focus completely on the subject in your hands that you want to take a snapshot of, and your mind will automatically apply what you have learned.

One of the important points to remember when you want to take an important photo is the need to use your camera. When you use someone else's camera, you will find yourself lost in searching for the various settings tools in it, which may be in other than the locations of the settings tools in your camera, distracting your mind from the most important part of the capture process, which is

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Pickup problems

To clips, a lot of controversy arose and is still being raised about the rules for composing the scene, what we should do and what we should not do. Everyone lays down the rules and foundations for reinforcement based on his opinion! Whether or not you broke those rules. However, in the end, your personal opinion remains the final ruling. It is your personal opinion that gives way to your own style of appearance.

Before delving into composing the scene, there are many problems that must be paid attention to when making a snapshot. These problems are called beginners' problems, and they are: 1 - Flare: In certain circumstances, you find yourself compelled to shoot in front of the sun. The difficulty of capturing in this mode is that some glare may appear in the solar radiation coming from some deviant angles, which spoils the image, as these radiations enter the lens barrel, causing glare on the film, which appears in the form of a lifeless or blurred image. lens

To prevent glare from occurring, you must purchase a lens hood and leave it attached to the lens all the time, as professional photographers do.

Use a lens hood even with filters, as the filter is a good transmitter of any glare when attached to the front of the lens, and placing a lens hood prevents glare in this case from occurring

2- Crowded photos: A common mistake newbies make is trying to cram too many things into one shot. They feel an urgent desire to fill the frame of the shot with whatever their eyes fall on without selecting specific centers of interest. Avoid this mistake and you will notice a great improvement in the level of your footage. He decided

What do you want to photograph and delete anything else. Do everything necessary to eliminate unwanted or unnecessary things in the scene by getting closer or changing the angle of capture - by bending a little or changing the location - or removing some weeds that hinder the emergence of a single flower, for example. In short, do anything to eliminate things that distract from your main subject

3- Distracting attention from the background: It is a problem that is an extension of the previous problem, as it is easy for the amateur to focus his attention on the main subject in the snapshot only, forgetting everything about the background, and then he will get a picture in which the main subject is absent in a background full of obstructing details. As if a pillar appeared in the background, but he did not notice its existence, as if it had sprouted from the head of the subject standing in the foreground.