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Recently i’ve been asked by a friend of mine. Mu’im how to take picture as good as yours eh?

Seriously, I don’t consider myself as good. Not too confident and good enough to hand my pics over to a contest or to be called as “good” compared to some of my friends.

Most of the time i learn photography by myself by reading magazines or browsing through the net for pictures and techniques. Well I bought my first camera a bit late, after i graduated from my University. Most of the influence I got to took up photography are from my university friends. They own a DSLR, with lots of lenses. And here I am, learning and went out for photo hunting all by myself

Put all that aside..Keep the story for other time..

Back to the topic, so I just simply answered my friend. “Shoot more, experiment with your camera. Keep shooting and it’s not hurt to keep pressing the shutter”. Remember, it’s not all 100 pictures that we took, all 100 will be good. Maybe 3-4 or maybe less and even ZERO!

Then, my friend asked me again. “But from what i know, it’s better to take 1 good picture than to take lots lots of picture but turns out most of it not good?”

Uhuk…tersedak kejap.. The question keeps pondering me……………

Well. It’s like this:

1. When you shoot something that is still, and you have time to stop a while and think, recompose and finally shoot. It’s good to exercise thinking over shooting.
For example architecture, still object like ball, tree etc, scenery and much more.

Compose through your eyes 1st before you compose in viewfinder..

But do take into consideration of the sun light if you’re shooting outside in the day light. Want to catch the Golden Hour or sunset or sun rise? Well that is different story

The point is if you want to achieve something, keep shooting and experimenting if you still don’t get the result you wanted. That’s the learning process. Or ask mr Google or your friend who knows how to get it. Asking an experienced photographer is a good way to learn, reading books or magazines will broaden your knowledge

Ultraman?

2. Take lots lots lots of picture if you want to capture the moment. This is crucial

Moment? what moment? Like people expression, accident, something that happens in a flash, animals, events, time constraint, what else??  kids..

consider this sequence of picture :

Notice that the girl on the left is not looking to the camera while the other two is ready. Also there's some distracting figure at the back

Then all three children are ready but there's still some distraction at the back. (well i can just crop) but the child expression seems like not enough

After for a while then "BAM!" the right moment comes. No distraction at the back. All 3 lovely children looking at me and smiling. I can consider this pic as good moment to capture

Not long after that the boy in the middle started to get distracted. He start to look down a bit

This time is more obvious. The boy in the middle tilt his head to his left. Maybe he saw some toys or moving candy

oh..By the way, all these 3 child is my niece and nephew. Hehe..thank you for being my model.

As we can see in this 5 pictures. The right moment can only come once. And if we wait maybe we missed it or the moment will never comes again.

Animals are unpredictable, peoples behaviors and expressions changes all the time, time is ticking, you have less time to decide. Event only happen once, kids gets bored easily. So be generous with your shutter, I believe you will be satisfied with the results (but make sure u have a correct settings with your camera first)

3. Shoot and keep shooting to get the result you wanted

I think i covered this part previously but to really emphasize it. For me, i keep shooting and changing the setting to get different result and sometimes unique pictures.

Mostly when i play with light, shutter speed, aperture, white balance. It’s fun when same picture gives different vibes.

Look at these bitter gourd pics :

Bitter Gourd 1 (arif's fav) but not enough lighting

Bitter Gourd 2 : The one without any shadow but with distracting background

Bitter gourd 3 : My fav..why? don't know hahaha

Just sharing what i know and what i feel. For me, i love to be generous with my camera’s shutter. If i’m wrong fell free to write comments and do advice me.

How about you? How do treat your camera’s shutter?

-Mu’im Aziddin-

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