Photography Lessons !!

Its been about 3 yrs since am planning to buy SLR camera and every time I think about it, I think about all the hassles that go with SLR camera. One needs to be really into photography to make optimal use of a good machine. With these thoughts I gave up on SLR and bought Sony H50 2 yrs back, which was an excellent camera and I was proud of my decision of not buying a bulky camera and still getting the zoom and quality I was looking for.

But last year I had an issue with my Sony H50 and slowly it started giving problems and finally few months back the lens on the Camera was totally stuck, which could not be repaired. Now I was back with same old question, what should I buy SLR or Point and Shoot Phew ... It took me more than 3 mnths to research and come up with final decision of buying D3100 from Nikon with 18-55m and 55-300mm lens and I think I would still need one more lens in future.

When I started reading about how to take good pictures and use your SLR for best shots, I found there is whole new area to explore, I never thought about so many things before taking a picture, and am not talking about the technical details of the camera, but about our psychology on what to capture . A picture that you take should speak a lot, it should tell you the whole story about the place where it was taken, in fact you can hide or reveal as much as you want on a picture. It requires a totally different set of eyes and thinking to take a good picture, you need to think like a viewer of the picture and understand what he needs to see and what you need to show him. I thought pictures are 2 dimensional but now I know they are 4 dimensional, you can capture, X and Y axis but could also capture the depth and cover Z axis. But above all that the 4th dimension is the time, you should focus the right dimensions at the right time to have a perfect image.

I think learning photography would require a lot of patience and hard work, you might end up spending 15 mins to take a picture that a viewer would view only for 5 secs. So there is no ROI, its only the satisfaction that you would get after taking a good picture, and believe me not everyone would be able to appreciate the efforts involved. Now when I started reading about taking a better picture, I try to see the pictures with those set of details and its really interesting to notice the minute details that most of us always miss.

Fortunately I have 2-3 of my friends who are guru in this skills and are helping me to understand it better. So let me try few shots and I will keep uploading my best pictures online for comments.