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Photography Basics for Beginner Photographers

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Starting with professional photography seems a little overwhelming sometimes. Taking your first DSLR and trying to understand it feels difficult, but trust me that is not a thing you should worry the most. The struggle for me was not to learn using the camera as a beginner photographer, it started later. My photographs never looked professional and I use to wonder why. And I found out that there are some basic technicalities that need to learn. So in this article, I am going to help you understand the basics of photography that every aspiring professional photographer should know.     Exposure Triangle   Exposer triangle has 2 words ‘Exposer’ and ‘Triangle.’ Exposer means how much light is reaching your camera sensor and the triangle shows us the 3 camera settings which we can use to control the amount of light reaching there. Only 2 of the 3 camera settings can control the actual light which are  Shutter Speed and Aperture. The third camera setting I ca...

6 dramatic one light setups for portrait photography

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If you have only one light in your kit and if you think that it is not enough for taking dramatic portraits, well here are 6 one light setups for shooting dramatic portraits. Here you will know that there are many things you can do with only one light and generate some great portraits for your portfolio. I love seeing your work and get inspired by your ideas. If this article helps you. Please share your photos on Instagram and tag me on your post @infinit_o_graphy.   1)     Flat Light In this light set up the light is directly In front of the model. There is not much shadow play in this setup. We get a flat image by using this but it is the starting point of one light setups. 2)     Paramount/ butterfly lighting   This setup is like Flat light the only difference here is that the light is moved 45 ° above the model’s face. Just by doing this, you can achieve a great difference in the results. A butterfly-like structure is obtained b...