The Techniques

I am an amateur photographer. I think this becomes obvious with the words I choose to describe how I take a photo, that and some of the images I produce! I love playing around with the settings on the camera to see what happens. I have taken some dreadful photographs doing that. Its just experimenting. I like to see what happens when I change the ISO, the shutter speed or the aperture. It turns out that these three things form the exposure triangle and are very important apparently in getting a good picture. But what is a good picture. Professionals these days delibrately over or under expose their shots to evoke a certain mood. It is a creative choice. One man's underexposure is another man's masterpiece. A blurred shot might be on purpose. A crisp shot with good exposure might be classic but it might miss the message. The rule of thirds is there to be broken, rules of colour mught be broken to purposely be jarring, patterns, close ups, different angles, perspectives, backgrounds, the same scene shot a thousand different ways.