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Is it a good idea for an aspiring photographer to read about technical things in the books of photography?
I was reading about some photographers like Diane Arbus did not even know of the matter as of the statement, Apeture, and diaphragms. You think it's a good investment of time for a candidate a photographer to read technical books on photography? Or do you think it's better to just go out and shoot?
I think his source was poorly Diane Arbus informed. Many people seem to think that if they "… just go out and shoot …" somehow took a good picture. Of course, using this logic, it is possible that you are going to take 300 photos lousy and have no idea why images are fatal. That's where the "art" comes into play (a person once said here that if you took 100 photos and got 1 good one they were happy. Talk about low expectations! I sincerely believe that you get similar results just to give the camera to a chimpanzee.) If you do not know and understand the triangle to the exposure of ISO, shutter speed and aperture can control how your picture taken? Sure, you can set your camera in Program AE mode and let it make all the decisions about opening and shutter speed, but how the camera know what effect you are trying to achieve? Not so. You can not. The cameras are just silly boxes. If you do not understand how opening and the length Focal used to produce either a depth of field (DOF), or a deep DOF So how to isolate the subject from the background? How to ensure that everything from 3 'in front of the camera to infinity is in focus? (Depth of field is defined as the area of acceptable focus in front and behind the subject). If you do not understand the function of the shutter speed, how do expect to use to stop the movement or to allow a subject to be slightly blurred to show the movement? If you do not know how to choose the ISO affects both the aperture and shutter speed and image quality then how can you know what the ISO for use on a sunny day? For sports / action? For the best possible picture quality? Without a good technical knowledge of photography, how know what to do when confronted with scenes that are not average and that will cause the camera meter to give an exhibition of bad? Suppose you have a subject against a bright background and do not want a silhouette? What if the item is Frontlit against a dark background? If you depend on your camera disappoint. Its theme is not correctly exposed. Suppose your scene is white sand or snow. Let meters from the camera decides, its white sand or snow will become gray. You must also know and understand the "rules of composition. "Knowing that you make your photos more interesting. You know you do not center your subject. You know to keep empty space to a minimum. You know, to check the background so you can remove the trees 'growth' of someone's head. You know how to eliminate or at least minimize one background distractions. Of course, knowing the "Rules" and then lets break when their creative impulses to ignore them. So yes, that knowledge technically necessary. Without that you are just a snapshooter. Period. Shoot. Hope. With him are on track to be a photographer. Compose. Shoot. Know. For the record, almost always shoot in Aperture Preferred DOF because I really like and I know that the lenses are designed to produce the best results from f5.8 to f11. I can see the shutter speed to ensure that it is too slow to keep on hand. "Pictures are not taken, will do." Ansel Adams "Best wide-angle lens? Two steps back. Search the "ah-ha '." Ernst Haas
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