Simplicity of Photography

Alright, if anyone was ever going to give you a one-page rundown on exactly how to take good photos fast it's going to me right here and right now:

(1) Forget the camera:

Having a "good" camera is overrated to an incredible degree. It's not necessary. They sell you on 1000 different features for a whopping big price tag and you end up, really, only needing 3 of them.

Shutter Speed

Aperture

ISO

(my course teaches you to be expert on all three of them)

Any camera beyond an iPhone has these three features and these alone give you the "professional" control you actually need in a camera.

When choosing the right camera for you you should more importantly pick one which feels good in your hand for long use time, and ideally not too fragile in case it gets bumped around. If it helps YOU take the shots YOU want, then it's a "good" camera. And that's the only basis you should make a camera purchase on.

Right now I personally use a camera which has 10,000 features I never use because I just use the three above, plus the on/off switch. If I decide to have another camera in the future I'll still only use the same features I've just said. That's ALL that's really necessary when it comes down it.

(2) The light is right:

The word photography means literally "light writing". Hence, if there's anything you should really want to practice with, it's using light correctly.

A camera exists to record light, but if you have no light or the light looks strange then your camera will record a strange image no matter what else you try to do.

If you want to learn photography, really, then you want to learn lighting so that your images look HOW you want them to look.

(3) Composition is the key

Composition means literally "placing things together". Com means "together", -position means to place. Composition is all about knowing WHAT things will look GOOD when placed TOGETHER. And in this lies everything from your subject, to their clothes, to what background to choose, to the posing, to what camera angle to use and everything else which ends up in your photo.

Composition is a big subject but what I've just said IS how it works.

If you're ready to go deep and learn everything to create the images that you dream of, then I can help you here.

Luke