Photography Hacks

The book I read to research this post was Photography: Photography Lighting Hacks by Eric Adamo which is a very good book that I bought from kindle. This book primarily about landscape photography for the enthusiast. It is around 25 pages so is quite short. When you take a photograph you decide what the main thing in the photo is often called a subject and it needs to be a little off the centre. Many people divide the photo into thirds to get this effect. You need a mid-range DSLR camera preferably by Nikon or Canon and it needs to be rugged and have decent features. He suggests having a set of polarizing filters particularly good if the weather isn’t ideal. You need to experiment with these. The ND type are good to start with. You need a tripod because sometimes you will have to take long exposures. The best thing you can do to learn photography is practice and experiment with different settings. If a photo is less than perfect you can always delete it. You also should get Photoshop and Photoshop Lightroom softwares. At the moment Adobe do quite reasonably priced cloud packages with these. Photoshop Lightroom is a photo archiving software that lets you store your photos and do simpler tasks like adjust light levels. For many people this maybe all you need. Photoshop is the industry standard photoediting software that lets you do virtually anything you could possibly imagine to a photo. Bear in mind there is a steep learning curve to this software but if you do learn it, it is definitely worthwhile. I did enjoy this book and do recommend it.