• Beginners Guide to Digital Photography

    Beginners Guide to Digital Photography

    Prasad Naik, Mar 09, 2010 1539 hrs IST

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Digital cameras have become a hot product nowadays due to their falling prices and everyone with some cash to spare is buying one now. But more often than not people don't really know much about digital photography (or photography in general) and how to work with the options that cameras offer. Most of them just point and shoot.

Although it may work fine in some cases, for others you would have to do some fiddling with the settings to get a decent picture. But if you're serious about getting a good shot you need to understand a bit of the basics. For instance, do you really know what white balance is? Or what the ISO setting does? Or the difference between digital and optical zooms? Well, if the answer to all those questions is a solid "No", then fear not, for today we will be discussing some basics of shooting with a digital camera.

Do note that these are only the basics and meant for absolute beginners. So if you are a professional photographer, you may feel like you have revisited kindergarten. Also, no amount of fiddling with the settings will help if you lack the basic knowledge of what looks good or bad, or if you lack the photographer's eye. With that little disclaimer out of the way, let's get on with this guide.  



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(17) Comments
Pradeep Kumar
,Hyderabad, on May 29, 2010 03:31 PM
Too good for fledgling photographers.
Ajay
,Bangalore, on May 28, 2010 05:42 PM
Nice artical its very helpfull to me, thanks to editors
Bonny Sharma
,Patiala, on Apr 02, 2010 11:47 AM
Thanks for shating this very useful piece of information for beginners like me! Hope you would keep writing such tips for novices like me!
Ravi
,Pune, on Mar 30, 2010 07:54 PM
Hi, Thanks for the basic knowledge that required while taking the Pics.. This is very simple and easy to understand. Once again thanks for post this kind of info.
Bharat Acharya
,Barmer, Rajasthan, on Mar 18, 2010 04:40 PM
Good.
Prateek Tambi
,Bangalore, on Mar 17, 2010 11:46 PM
this is what i needed exactly... thanks will keep learning more. hope to find a deeper set of lessons.
Jay
,Kolkata, on Mar 16, 2010 08:29 PM
Really a good article. It is very well described the basics of the photography for the beginners. Thanks. Need more this kind of article.
Vinod
,mumbai, on Mar 15, 2010 10:57 AM
@ Rohan - Got the article in PDF format. Thanks!
Dhaval.
,xyz, on Mar 15, 2010 10:18 AM
Good article. Nice little handbook for beginners. Good job and thanks.
Karthick
,Chennai, on Mar 12, 2010 11:14 PM
Hey, can someone tell me which batteries are best for Canon powershot a460 ?
B_D
,Coimbatore, on Mar 11, 2010 09:15 PM
Good post; very informative for beginners. Continue the good work
Rohan Naravane
,Techtree TechLabs, on Mar 10, 2010 06:08 PM
Vinod, that's a good suggestion. We will see if its possible to get it working. In the meantime, follow these steps to achieve the same effect: 1) Click the Print button right below the article head-line. 2) Google for a site called htm2pdf. Copy-paste the URL of that print preview window of that site. 3) Click the convert button...then click the download button You'll have the entire article downloaded as a PDF. Cheers!
Vinod
,mumbai, on Mar 10, 2010 05:40 PM
Good stuff, keep it up! One request - could you make the article available as a PDF for download. It be a handy reckoner.
abi
,blr, on Mar 10, 2010 11:23 AM
pleasant to read..keep it up. cleared some doubts i had
Bharat
,Hyderbad, on Mar 10, 2010 11:05 AM
After a long time, a great article guyz, thank you... If you could add the cameras with the shutter speeds and their ratings this would be complete.. otherwise its an informative fine article..
Deepak
,Mumbai, on Mar 10, 2010 05:45 AM
thanks for the lovely guide. Like they say "Just what the doctor ordered"
s.f.s
,hk, on Mar 09, 2010 08:25 PM
Good article with explicit explanation on some basic knowledge about digital camera.

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