Chapter 1: Point and Shoot!
Doesn’t matter if you have or don't have a DSLR camera. Nowadays everyone is having a DSLR, but the truth is that it does not matter if you have a professional gear. Pro photographers can click amazing pictures using normal (or sub normal) cameras as well.
The expensive gear does help, but before buying an expensive camera you need to put time and effort to practice. For now use your existing camera or your cellphone camera or maybe a borrowed camera.
This being said; I will suggest you to buy a good camera later which will have more manual controls. But more advanced controls means more complications unless you learn how to master it. And that’s what you will learn here step-by-step.
Right now we will learn how to point and shoot.
Do It:
- Put your camera on automatic mode - any camera which you have.
- For now go and click pictures of anything. Anything and everything you can find. Click as many as you can, take 4 - 7 days for this exercise or till you are satisfied.
- Once you have clicked many pictures - save them on your Computer. Look closely which ones seems interesting to you and think why.
- Delete the ones which you are very sure that you don't like and proceed to next chapter once you are delighted by the pics now saved on your computer. Don't compare the results with others for now. That time will come later.
Let me show some samples below which I clicked using Auto Mode:
