Easy Digital Photography Basics

Learning digital photography can be simple. These digital photography basics can help your pictures and make them spectacular.

Color in a photo can be very powerful. It can be emotionally intoxicating. What do you feel when you look at a sunrise of pinks and purples? What about a deep blue sky with the American flag flying? It’s amazing at conjuring up a lot of different emotions. Before taking a picture, think about what emotion you are trying to create. Warm colors, like reds and yellows will portray a completely different emotion than cooler colors like blues and greens.

Exactly like a room painted in a certain color, a photo can create an emotion. When you go into a space that is decorated in bright yellow, how do you feel? Is it a good feeling? When others view photographs, they can get the same emotions produced by the prominent colors.

Another way to look at color is the absence of it. Black and white pictures can create the same amount of emotions as any made up of color. Correspondingly, sepia tones can create feelings of times gone by. If you are trying to produce a “timeless” feeling in your photo, Black and white as well as sepia tone will do this.

Another one of the simple tools is to use light and shadows. If you want the viewer to “observe” an object or person in the photograph, bath them in brilliant light and have shadows throughout the remaining parts of the photograph. The light will pull the viewer’s eye to the subject and anything in the shadows is just added dimension.

What if you want something hidden in the photo, so that the viewer has to really inspect it to identify the item? The object could be hiding in the shadows. The photograph could look sublime when first viewed, but then have something hiding in the shadows to create a contrast of the feeling in the picture.

As I have shown, digital photography basics can be as simple as selective use of light or color. I hope that you use these tips to create impressive photographs. Remember to always think about what emotions you want the viewer to feel and that will help you select the right color and light balance.

As shown above, Digital Photography Basics can be easy to learn. These ideas are just the tip of the iceberg. If you want to learn more Digital Photography Basics, I have many other articles that will interest you. The tricks in these articles will improve your photographic skills and help you create spectacular looking photographs.