Many people said, practice makes prefect, the exercise direct you to the perfection. Well, we are never become perfect photographer, but become better and better photographer, it’s a must.
Today i will explain about some exercise that easy relatively but make you become better and better photographer:
1. Practice using Spot Meter
Metering System of Modern Camera is very sophisticated. Metering system that mostly to use is evaluative, matrix or multi-area that usually very good in low light condition. But when we have to face with the situation which is too bright or too dark or the other tricky situation. Metering system will not work as your want.
That’s why we have to mastering about spot metering camera. More often we using spot meter, we will habitually knowing where we have to place the spot metering on current subject and lighting condition. We can know how to read color tone before set the photo composition. Read more about Metering here.
2. Practise using Histogram
All lights information on a photo can be looked through Histogram quickly. Luckily you can shoot with Mirrorless camera which is equipped by electronic viewfinder, because this camera type can be set to display the histogram in viewfinder so we know photo histogram even before pressing the shutter.
When we have to face the hard lighting condition, check the histogram on your photo result, Histogram level display the photo lighting, from the dark ( brightness = 0, in the left end) until the brightest ( brightness = 255, the right end of histogram). The Top histogram show the number of pixels numbers with the brightness level and the high of top histogram show the numbers of pixels with information.It means : the very dark photo will show the graphic tend to left, meanwhile the bright photo tend to right. Read more about histogram here. Also turn on the highlight warning in camera to avoid the detail of photo because overexposed.
3. Use the Prime Lens Continuously
Using Prime Lens , lens non zoom that only have one focal length, it force us to make us more creative. If usually we just zoom-in or zoom out the lens, with the prime lens we have to walking approach or away to get right composition. Beside we have to pass thinking process an moving to set the composition when you use the prime lens, we also become memorize with character and view angle of lens, so in that current times, we feel so united with the lens perspective. Read more about Prime lens here.
4. Practice Using Manual Mode
Even thought the aperture mode and Shutter priority are pretty good in most of photoshoot condition, but mastering the manual mode is one of sign of finesse photographer.
Beside you will know perfectly with the manual mode, the main function of practice using manual mode is to fix our hand speed to change the aperture-shutter speed and ISO parameter. Need practice to do this cycle quickly : hand do metering > eyes see the camera metering > hand change the aperture/shutter.
5. Commitment to upload photos everyday.
Make commitment to upload photos everyday, even in facebook, twitter, flicker or instagram. So that, we will encouraged to keep looking for interesting photo subject and do experiment that you never thinking before.
Have a nice practice.
